Green Infrastructure for Stormwater Management

Green Infrastructure for Stormwater Management: Case Studies
Glenn Eugster December 5, 2007
National Park Service, National Capital Region
202-619-7492
Glenn_eugster@nps.gov


Multi-State

Case studies featured in Chesapeake Bay Communities: A Catalog of Local Initiatives to Protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. USEPA, Chesapeake Bay Program Office, Annapolis, MD

USEPA Sustainable Development Challenge Grant Applications Database
(a collection of numerous innovative approaches to green infrastructure and stormwater management at a variety of scales and at all levels of government and in the private sector)

Reining in the Storm-One Building at a Time (a film by Dave Eckert with support from USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program, Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Northern Virginia Regional Commission)

Guide to Green Roofs in and around Washington, DC (Third Annual Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities Conference, Washington, DC. May 2005)

Potomac International Urban Watershed Management Exchange (a partnership between the Glynwood Center, USEPA’s Office of International Activities, the National Park Service and Germany)

Statewide Approaches

Florida Greenways Decision-Support Model (Includes University of Florida Geo Plan Modeling as well as the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's programmatic effort)

Maryland Green Infrastructure Program (links open space acquisition, watershed management/river corridor protection, greenway conservation and GIS assessment and modeling)

Metropolitan Systems

Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN (metropolitan green infrastructure plan that is multiobjective)

Portlands of Toronto, Canada (green infrastructure plan incorporates recreation, brownfields, phyto-remediation, and open space with land use plan)

Sub-State (Multi-County)

Albemarle-Pamlico Bioregional Greenway Plan (eastern North Carolina)

Loxahatchee Regional Greenways Network (Palm Beach County and Martin County, Florida)

Upper Hillsborough River Greenway Plan (Hillsborough County and Polk County, Florida)

Watershed Approaches

Catskill-NYC Water Supply Lands, NY (innovative approach to managing development to protect public water supply)

Charles River Watershed Plan, MA. (Non-structural flood-loss reduction initiative developed with assistance of COE)

Emscher Park, Ruhr Valley, Germany (ecological and economic regeneration effort which incorporates green infrastructure into a larger sustainable design and planning effort.)

Local Government Efforts

Baltimore County, MD Greenways and Forest Conservation Program

City of West Eugene, OR Local Wetlands Plan (developed by locals, EPA, BLM and State in response to a development conflict to give more regulatory predictability and integrate green space with development)

Eckernforde, Germany (green planning systems approach to local decision-making)

Land Development Designs

Amelia Island Plantation Development, FL (privately development on a barrier island)

Woodlands Development, Texas (private development which incorporated natural infrastructure as an alternative to traditional stormwater management)

Fields of St. Croix, St. Elmo, MN (private development with innovative combination of green space, paved surfaces and drainage solutions)

Private Landowner Stewardship

Arbormeade Farm, PA. (129 acres conserved with assistance of Natural Lands Trust)

Fortescue Glades, NJ (More than 4,000 acres of tidal wetlands, forests and farmland along Delaware Bay conserved with assistance of Natural Lands Trust)