American Rivers has tools available to help public utility managers communicate about and assist them in fostering public support for collecting fees to upgrade and/or maintain water infrastructure. The toolkit contains: A stormwater utility overview and technical resources A strategy for building public support for a stormwater utility Sample outreach materials (Spanish versions available) Draft press… Continue reading Stormwater Management Toolkit from America’s Rivers
Topic: Green Infrastructure/Stormwater Management
Green Acres and Green Infrastructure
The Green Acres and Green Infrastructure report from Jersey Water Works’ Green Infrastructure Committee recommends ways for New Jersey Green Acres Program to allow green stormwater infrastructure in existing parks. To prepare, the committee sought and received input from Jersey Water Works members.
New Guidance: Designing Parks and Public Spaces with Green Infrastructure
The Jersey Water Works Green Infrastructure Committee has released recommendations for designing new parks and public spaces with green infrastructure to manage stormwater. Green infrastructure features allow parks and public spaces to manage stormwater, control flooding, and improve water quality in ways that complement and can even enhance their other functions. Green infrastructure features can be… Continue reading New Guidance: Designing Parks and Public Spaces with Green Infrastructure
New Guidance: Designing Parks and Public Spaces with Green Infrastructure
The Jersey Water Works Green Infrastructure Committee has released recommendations for designing new parks and public spaces with green infrastructure to manage stormwater. Green infrastructure features allow parks and public spaces to manage stormwater, control flooding, and improve water quality in ways that complement and can even enhance their other functions. Green infrastructure features can be… Continue reading New Guidance: Designing Parks and Public Spaces with Green Infrastructure
Promoting Green Streets: A recipe for integrating water and transportation infrastructure investment
This guide, developed by The River Network and Hawkins Partners, Inc., helps support city administrators, planners, designers, and environmental advocates in determining the potential — and developing strategies — for green streets in their cities and watersheds. Many large cities have made intentional commitments to green street strategies to reduce stormwater runoff that contributes to combined sewer overflows.
Green Infrastructure Toolkit from the Georgetown Climate Center
This Green Infrastructure Toolkit from the Georgetown Climate Center can help local governments at different stages of their green infrastructure programs find the resources and examples that are most helpful to them.
Turning Concept Into Reality: Green Infrastructure
The Green Infrastructure Support Tool (GIST) is a web-based mapping tool that provides wetland restoration site analysis. By combining environmental data with business initiatives it compares values and costs in order to determine the best restoration sites and options.
Philly Shares Design Secrets of Eco-Friendly Schoolyards
The Community Design Collaborative, in partnership with the Philadelphia Water Department, has created a design guide with information on greening schoolyards. In addition, this article from Next City describes how they have partnered to redesign city schoolyards into eco-friendly learning areas—which also happen to play an active role in the city’s stormwater management.
The Value of Green Infrastructure
This guide assesses the economic benefits of green infrastructure in order to help decision-makers evaluate water management options in their communities.
City Parks, Clean Water
This study explores the technologies and political issues involved in using green infrastructure, in order to highlight the successes and challenges of water-smart parks in urban areas.