What combines green infrastructure and flood mitigation? Check out Next City's recent article on “sponge cities” at https://bit.ly/4bwJyir. From planting native plant species to protecting Houston’s wetlands and wet swales, HPB’s Conservation and Maintenance team is already working towards making Houston spongier. #GreenInfrastructure #HoustonGreenspace #ParksByYou
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Flood mitigation in Houston is essential to protect lives, homes, and businesses from the devastating impact of flooding events. Investing in infrastructure and proactive measures ensures a safer and more sustainable future for our city. #Houston #Resilience #UrbanPlanning #LandscapeArchitecture #KHLandscape
What combines green infrastructure and flood mitigation? Check out Next City's recent article on “sponge cities” at https://bit.ly/4bwJyir. From planting native plant species to protecting Houston’s wetlands and wet swales, HPB’s Conservation and Maintenance team is already working towards making Houston spongier. #GreenInfrastructure #HoustonGreenspace #ParksByYou
Sponge Cities Are the Future of Urban Flood Mitigation
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MMSD launched its Greenseams program in 2001. "almost 5,400 acres — either in acquisitions or through land conservation easements. We estimate these lands have the capacity to store over 3 billion gallons of water". Greenseams is one of multiple strategies MMSD is using to address flood risk—for example, $400 million worth of urban projects—including massive stormwater retention and levee systems. https://lnkd.in/geXKi6h6
MMSD draws from nature to manage flood waters in Milwaukee region
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Floodplain Restoration Project with collective goals to enhance floodplain connectivity and channel processes, foster sustainable habitat, and reduce flood risk. https://lnkd.in/diU7gFjT
Strength in Numbers: Purpose-driven team advances restoration in California coastal watershed
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🌿 New research on the peatlands of Kinder Scout has demonstrated how flood protection can be delivered during large storms. ⛈ Strategic restoration through re-vegetation, gully blocking and planting of sphagnum moss could offer significant protection to downstream communities, such as #Glossop, which lies below the moorland peaks of #Bleaklow and #KinderScout in the #PeakDistrict. Salim Goudarzi, University of Aberdeen, Martin Evans, The University of Manchester, David Milledge, Newcastle University, David Brown, Environment Agency, Tom Spencer, Moors for the Future Partnership. https://lnkd.in/e69gZprJ #FloodRisk #PeatlandRestoration
Restoring eroded peatlands reduces flood risk for communities downstream
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It’s not easy being green. But having read about the coast-to-coast efforts to mitigate flooding impacts through “green infrastructure,” it sure is worth it. A recent article posted by NJ Spotlight News highlights federal grant work being done by Rutgers University to use rain gardens and porous pavement, among other green infrastructure initiatives, to help control stormwater in the cities of Paterson, Newark and Perth Amboy. Rutgers’ green projects include implementing a network of rain gardens featuring plants that can withstand full submersion and create temporary ponds during storms that have the potential to absorb about 60 million gallons of rain a year. A single, 200 square-foot rain garden can manage 30,000 gallons of stormwater per year, so a collection of these gardens in a metropolitan area can significantly reduce local flooding and improve runoff water quality. Heading west to California, the Oakland Alameda Adaptation Committee is spearheading three adaptation projects addressing sea level rise vulnerabilities. Two of them are near-term projects focused on mitigating coastal, stormwater and groundwater flooding risk in areas around the Oakland Alameda Estuary and Bay Farm Island that will also implement green infrastructure elements. Among the Oakland Alameda Estuary adaptations will be the installation of rain gardens throughout the estuary to increase the absorption of rainwater into the soil while providing additional areas for habitat and recreation when there is not an active storm. To complement upgrades to Alameda’s stormwater management systems that pump water from the Bay Farm Island Lagoon into San Francisco Bay to make space for additional runoff, green strategies that slow, store, and re-use stormwater to reduce the burden on the drainage system and meet future water storage capacity needs will be employed. These are just the tips of some large flooding resiliency icebergs. According to project leaders, achieving the highest levels of flood resiliency will come from projects that effectively combine green infrastructure (e.g., rain gardens, permeable pavements, native landscape restoration) with gray infrastructure (aka, man-made infrastructure such as pipes, tunnels and culverts). These are both fascinating developments that I recommend reading about in greater detail in the articles linked below. https://lnkd.in/eyMKKEbk https://lnkd.in/eMSTZQqN #NewJersey #California #Rutgers #GreenInfrastructure #Stormwater #WrightFlood
Vulnerable Shoreline Communities Plan for Sea Level Rise - Alameda Post
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Providence, RI is turning to trees to help battle the city's flooding problem. That said, they also recognize that make significant changes will also require grey infrastructure, green infrastructure, zoning changes and other procedural moves. One example found that the Woonasquatucket River Watershed was covered by 75% impervious coverage. In these cases, trees will not solve all the problems. #stormwatermanagement #civilengineer
How to stop flooding in the city of Providence? Plant 30,000 trees.
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💧A useful article highlighting the issues caused by Internal Drainage Boards (IDB’s) for anyone attempting river and catchment restoration. Here’s hoping this (admittedly fairly niche!) issue gets a lot more scrutiny over the coming years, as we invest in catchments to hold floodwater in rural areas where feasible. https://lnkd.in/eucqdAc8
More floods are coming to Britain, but you ought to know this: the system that should protect us is a scandal | George Monbiot
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Events like these have sparked interest in so-called sponge cities – a comprehensive approach to urban flood mitigation that uses innovative landscape and drainage designs to reduce and slow down runoff, while allowing certain parts of the city to flood safely during extreme weather. Sponge city techniques differ from other stormwater management approaches because they are scaled to much larger storms and need to be applied across nearly all urban surfaces.
As climate change amplifies urban flooding, here’s how communities can become ‘sponge cities’
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A powerful surf from an earlier storm flooded an exposed sewer bed, which is the last step in the filtration process, rendering it useless. Now, the town is figuring out what to do next to protect this critical infrastructure, only feet from falling further into the ocean. Should the town put in preventative measures to protect the treatment plant from further erosion or pay the high cost of moving it further inland? Boston Globe Media #climatechange #erosion #nantucket #wastewater #wastewatertreatment https://lnkd.in/ev6-EQCT
Beach erosion threatens sewage-treatment plant on Nantucket - The Boston Globe
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🇺🇸 East Texans Oppose Plan to Flood Acres of Land to Boost DFW Water Supply - The Cost of Progress - Is It Worth It, or What is the Alternative? A proposal to construct the Marvin Nichols Reservoir, which would flood nearly 70,000 acres of land in East Texas, has met with significant opposition from local residents. The reservoir is intended to address the growing water needs of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, which is projected to require an additional 1.3 million acre-feet of water annually by 2080. The project, estimated to cost around $7 billion, would involve damming the Sulphur River and creating a reservoir capable of supplying water to about 3 million people. Local residents, however, are concerned about the displacement of families, the destruction of wildlife habitats, and the impact on the timber industry. The state would also need to acquire approximately 130,000 acres of land for conservation to offset the environmental impact, potentially through eminent domain. The project has been delayed multiple times since it was first proposed in the 1950s, but upcoming deadlines may force a decision soon.
'Leave us alone' | East Texans oppose plan to flood 70,000 acres of their land to boost North Texas's water supply
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