CLASIC is a user-informed screening tool that utilizes a life cycle cost framework to support implementation of stormwater infrastructure, including green, hybrid green-gray, and gray infrastructure practices. The CLASIC tool integrates Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), which enables consideration of co-benefits for green infrastructure.

Sources: Stormwater, rainwater End Uses: Landscape irrigation, toilet flushing, habitat restoration The Metropolitan City Council, the regional planning organization for the seven-county Twin Cities area, developed one of the first guidance documents for stormwater reuse in the state back in 2011. The Stormwater Reuse Guide

The Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Benefit Cost Framework and Tool (Tool) provides stormwater practitioners with a systematic approach for quantifying and monetizing the financial, social, and environmental benefits of GSI at the community, watershed, or neighborhood scale.

stormwater management, reduce nuisance floodi ng, reduce irrigation needs, increase property values, and create long-lasting jobs for the local economy. GSI is an equitable approach for wet weather impacts because it is a tool that can mitigate situations that tend to disproportionately

As stormwater managers seek to protect surface and ground waters from the impacts of polluted urban runoff, it is imperative to select the correct options for the desired goals and to understand the appropriate applications and restrictions of the different methods available for use. The older models often rely upon hand calculations and have many restrictions. Computer methods …

With more than 130 stormwater projects, WRF’s research helps utilities and municipalities manage stormwater and green infrastructure to meet regulations, improve water quality, reduce flooding, enhance climate resilience, and diversify their water supply. WRF research focuses on the big picture—stormwater as part of an integrated approach

2025年1月23日 · Urban Stormwater Capture and Use (SCU) has the potential to add flexibility to water resource portfolios and enhance climate resilience. Nationally, two significant hurdles to implementing SCU are quantifying the amount of stormwater available for use/reuse and characterizing and quantifying the anticipated co-benefits of SCU.

make a case for investments in climate‐resilient stormwater, wastewater, and drinking water infrastructure, considering both structural approaches (i.e., physical assets) and non‐ structural approaches (e.g., codes and standards). • To advance quantitative approaches to utility decision-making about climate resilient

the first stormwater research WRF undertook, and it is an area that WRF remains committed to today. Studying the effects of bacteria, nutrients, cyanotoxins, and invasive species, this research creates a better understanding of contaminants and provides innovative solutions to help stormwater managers monitor and treat them in order to

2024年10月15日 · The objective of this research is to develop and establish the first Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data Utility (GHG EDU) to collate, share, and enable syntheses of GHG emissions data from Water Sector sources for higher accuracy and higher process-specificity emissions factors (EFs) and methodologies. Once well-populated, the GHG EDU would allow data-based …