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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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Decentralized Stormwater Controls for Urban Retrofit and Combined Sewer Overflow Reduction, Phase 2
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...
Decentralized Stormwater Controls for Urban Retrofit and Combined Sewer Overflow Reduction
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...
21st Century Water Municipal Issues and Concerns: Literature Review
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...
Quantification of Airborne Biological Contaminants Associated with Land-Applied Biosolids
Greater than 50% of all class B biosolids produced in the US are reused by application to agricultural land. The goal of this research was to pair a comprehensive literature review with a field...
Sewer Lateral Electro Scan Field Verification Pilot
This research effort evaluated an innovative sewer lateral condition assessment tool in unique testing conditions, providing an opportunity for comparison to other traditional assessment...
Navigating the TMDL Process: Sediment Toxicity
A key step in the development of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) allocations for water bodies impaired due to sediment toxicity is the identification of chemicals responsible for toxicity. ...
Evaluating Endocrine Disruption in Receiving Waters
In recent years, concerns have been raised that low concentrations of chemicals may alter the normal functions of the endocrine system, resulting in potentially significant adverse effects on...
Sewer Networks and Processes within Urban Water Systems
The papers in this volume were originally presented at the 18th European Junior Scientists Workshop (EJSW), Portugal, on 8-11 November 2003 and at the 1st Asian Junior Scientists Workshop (AJSW),...
Nature for Water: A Series of Utility Spotlights
By 2025, two thirds of the world’s population will be living in water stressed conditions. Meanwhile, the degradation of water ecosystems is occurring at alarming rates. Water utilities and water...
Cost Information for Wastewater Pipelines: Synthesis Report
The research presented in this report was performed in order to compile and better understand the total costs of some commonplace wastewater pipeline condition assessment and renewal engineering...
Management Practice for Wastewater Pipelines: Synthesis Report
This report presents state-of-the-art literature and current practice review of management practices for wastewater pipelines. These practices focus on the pipe condition evaluation and prediction...