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Section 3 Strategies for Physical Conditions Affecting Surface Water Drainage Opportunities: 1) Development. The zoning policies and comprehensive plan choices made by Afton and Woodbury can help protect the watershed and creek. The rules and regulations of Valley Branch Watershed District will help keep future houses from being flooded. Careful planning, education, and innovative development techniques can minimize impacts to the watershed. For example, the use of on-site infiltration practices and other best management practices can reduce the impacts of increased imperviousness to Valley Creek. 2) Physical landscape features. A detailed study of the Valley Creek watershed has identified areas, which, due to slope, soil, underlying geology, or other features, are sensitive to land alterations. By making this information available watershed wide, sensitive areas can be protected through voluntary actions of landowners. Furthermore, some of these areas are protected by ordinances such as Afton's steep slope ordinance. General Strategy: Carefully locate future development in the least sensitive portions of the watershed. Prohibit or limit development in the most ecologically sensitive areas and flooding potential areas of the watershed. Use alternative stormwater management practices to minimize the effects of imperviousness on the watershed. Enforce existing regulations regarding slopes. Specific Strategies (actions are listed below strategies): A) Develop and implement a Land Protection Plan (23 actions) B) Develop or revise current stormwater management plans (9 actions) C) Develop a flood protection plan. (4 actions) D) Develop an erosion control plan. (9 actions) E) Develop a buffer plan. (5 actions) F) Ensure septic systems are up to code. (2 action) G) Foster the use of "green" lawn care products and techniques, proper disposal of chemicals, proper use of herbicides and pesticides, and locations of pastures. (5 actions) 3-4