Stormwater management stories:
While designers and planners are trained to think about the best location and configuration of the land, regular people think through problems from a “what does this mean to me” point-of-view, not a structured geographical one.
A story told by a person from the place reveals how they think about the issues and apply their values by how they tell what is important and what is not. The story shows how the important things are connected together, the less important ones are overlooked.
One Drop: Why We Need Green Infrastructure
American Rivers: Many communities are embracing a new approach to managing runoff that focuses on capturing rainfall and preventing it from polluting surrounding waterways. By using green infrastructure techniques such as green roofs, rain gardens, tree planting, and permeable pavement, they are managing stormwater problems at a lower cost and realizing a wide range of other benefits from reduced air pollution, energy use, and urban heat island effect to improved wildlife habitat and aesthetics.
LandStudies Portfolio
LandStudies was founded in 1989 on the belief that understanding and working with natural systems, instead of artificially controlling them, provides consistently superior, more stable, and longer lasting results. Our clients appreciate our refreshing approach in contrast to conventional site design… solutions which balance stewardship with practicality.
City of Lancaster, Green Infrastructure
Lancaster City needs to save 750 million gallons of water annually from entering its combined sewer system – that’s the system that collects wastewater from your home as well as rainwater. We need to Save It! to preserve clean drinking water, avoid costly fines and continue to build a healthy, vibrant community. www.saveitlancaster.org
Transforming Barriers for Water-Wise World
Danielle Gallet, Manager for the Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC), Chicago, exemplified at #embracethewater circular economy wins as an essential component of moving towards water-wise communities. From transforming an elementary school into a nature-based solution that reduces flood risks and provides for social amenities, to turning a utility’s waste stream into a phosphorus-based fertiliser that can be sold in the market, all of these examples are a result of the collaborative adage: “Partner, partner, partner”.
Next City
https://nextcity.org/daily/tags/tag/stormwater%20management
Next City provides daily online coverage of the leaders, policies and innovations driving progress in metropolitan regions across the world. In an age when original, on-the-ground reporting is increasingly rare, we send our writers into urban communities around the world to produce our award-winning longform content. In addition to our online journalism, we produce events including an annual urban leadership conference, Vanguard. Next City is an independent, nonpartisan nonprofit that adheres to the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics. We are dedicated to producing journalism that is accurate, transparent, fair and impactful.
The power of images to engage people with pro-environmental communication
Psychologist Tracy Schultz unravels the factors that increase the personal relevance of a message at #embracethewater. Her research is of transcendental relevance to understand how we can leverage the emotional charge of images to increase community engagement around stormwater management specifically, and water sensitive cities, more broadly. www.iwa-network.org
Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts
http://buzzardsbayaction.org/story-of-stormwater.html
Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts is a small coastal community at the western end of Cape Cod. The EPA-funded project, titled Buzzards Bay Stormwater Collaborative: A Coordinated Intermunicipal Pilot Program to Map Stormwater Networks and Monitor Discharges to Impaired Surface Waters in the Buzzards Bay Watershed, focuses on five volunteer towns located around Buzzards Bay: Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Mattapoisett, and Wareham. These towns, through their representatives, work hand-in-hand with BBAC and BBNEP on the tasks involved and benefit by being able to apply the efforts and results towards specific municipal requirements, such as permitting and the reduction of the pollutant load to local waters.
Stormwater Pollution and Green Infrastructure Solutions
The Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District produced this educational film on Stormwater Pollution and Green Infrastructure, as a joint project with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. We hope you enjoy it, and share what you have learned with your friends and family. To learn more and for more stormwater education resources, visit www.NassauSWCD.org We work together, for healthy soils and clean water.
RAIN Community Solutions
http://www.raincommunitysolutions.ca/en/for-property-owners/rain-story/
RAIN Community Solutions is a service of Green Communities Canada. RAIN Community Solutions builds support for and participation in stormwater innovations that reduce runoff by managing rain where it falls. Strategies include workshops, demonstration projects, depaving events, presentations, outreach, tours, workbees, neighbourhood meetings, contractor training, and home and commercial visits. Local partners include municipalities, community organizations, conservation authorities, school boards, community and faith-based groups, garden centres, landscape architects, engineering consultants, landscapers, contractors, and product suppliers.
Green Infrastructure
The Trust for Public Land: To help cities address water quality and urban runoff issues, The Trust for Public Land helps create parks and protect land that feature green infrastructure solutions. This approach not only helps cities manage stormwater, but also provides lasting and broad community benefits. Appropriately designed playgrounds, parks, gardens, and trails are a cost-effective approach to managing runoff, while at the same time improving air quality, cooling the city, and providing residents with public spaces to enjoy. http://www.tpl.org/services/park-desi…
Living Map
https://www.tpomag.com/online_exclusives/2017/05/funding_the_high_cost_of_aging_infrastructure
A team of researchers at Stanford University has created a new online resource, hoping that it can help utilities do some outside-the-box thinking to overcome financing challenges. The “Living Map” project compiles case studies of innovative water financing efforts that have been implemented successfully across the country and examines how other utilities can do something similar. It’s presented in an interactive map format with breakout boxes for each case study.
Green Infrastructure in New Orleans
Developed by Dana Brown & Associates with the support of the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA) and the State of Louisiana Office of Community Development