The Department of Environmental Protection's web site offers a number of tips and publications on preventing pollution from yards and gardens. Tips include better lawn management through grasscycling, composting, reducing and timing pesticide applications better, reducing stormwater runoff laden with yard chemicals, capturing and controlling the volume of stormwater runoff and more.

For inquiries requiring the response of a DEP investigator, requestors will typically be contacted within 3 days although resolution of the issue may take longer depending on the circumstances of the case.