WERF Report INFR5SG09b
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Communities are increasingly looking to green infrastructure as a means of meeting not only stormwater management objectives but multiple environmental, social, and economic goals. Rather than viewing water infrastructure in isolation or – as has often been the case – an after-the-fact means of responding to a flooding or public health crisis, today’s urban planners are striving to integrate urban water into their sustainable development goals. This report reviews the criteria, metrics and protocols being used to measure such integrated systems.
This report provides overviews for two sustainable business metrics gaining popularity in the urban planning field – life cycle cost assessments and triple bottom line – as they apply to stormwater and urban water management. It outlines some of the practical challenges encountered when collecting data and measuring for performance. It also provides examples of cities such as Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. that have begun to embrace a more systems approach to water management in order to provide guidance to others who are interested in developing similar initiatives.
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Ten years into the 21st Century, municipal and county leaders are facing significant water challenges, including: high water use rates, population growth, aging infrastructure, and the impact of...
Decentralized stormwater controls provide a significant and promising alternative strategy to limit the number of overflows from combined sewer systems. This research evaluates the functional...
Phase 1 of this project demonstrated the technical feasibility of using decentralized stormwater controls in urban areas for retrofits and controlling combined sewer overflows. This technical...
The purpose of this research project was to examine construction projects that successfully reduced Rainfall Dependent Infiltration/Inflow (RDII). The research began with a literature...
The objectives are:
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The contamination of recreational waters by waterborne pathogens poses a health threat to beach users. Recently, the importance of beach sand to the...
Concerns about water quality degradation resulting from land appliation of manures and biosolids have elicited a wide array of national and state regulations. The regulations focus on P as the...
This report is an output of the fourth research track (Track 4) of WERF’s strategic asset management research program ‘Asset Management Communication and Implementation’ (SAM1R06). Track 4...
The objective of this project was to develop and evaluate a practical technique to indicate the probability of the presence of bacterial pathogens in receiving waters. A practical method was...
Groundwater beneath cities is important. Water utilities and private abstractors use is it as a secure source of water-supply and municipal authorities have to cope with it when planning...
Achieving true wholesome sustainability requires a change of heart. Hence this book starts in the heart. It asks the timely question of ‘how do we become true water stewards?’ The transformation...