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Webinar: Hassayampa River Study – Assessing Low Impact Development for Stormwater Management

June 07, 2021

Webinar Announcement: The Bureau of Reclamation and the City of Buckeye invite you to attend an upcoming webinar on a study titled: Hassayampa River Study – Assessing Low Impact Development for Stormwater Management.

What: Webinar on Hassayampa River Study - Assessing Low Impact Development for Stormwater Management (Study)
When: June 30, 2021 from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Where: Buckeye virtual meeting

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What Tucson Can Teach Us About Green Infrastructure

May 11, 2021

Existing research on green infrastructure often tends to look forward, describing new strategies to make nature-based stormwater solutions a more attractive option for cities as well as facilitate their adoption. New research published in the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, however, contends that stormwater professionals can learn something about the gradual process by which cities embrace green infrastructure — as well as how to accelerate it — by looking backward.

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Sonoran Desert Green Infrastructure Resource Library

August 24, 2020

In recent years, green infrastructure has become a proven solution to address many of the challenges created by urban stormwater. By soaking up stormwater and harvesting it to grow trees and plants, green infrastructure can provide multiple benefits to landowners, neighborhoods and communities. Green infrastructure can be particularly useful for transportation projects by reducing stormwater pollution at its source, minimizing localized street flooding, and cooling urban roadway systems. 

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Desert Green Infrastructure Design Guide

December 18, 2018

This digest is intended to provide the most relevant information pertaining to a selection of GSI/LID interventions frequently used in development in an easily understood format.

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EVALUATION OF WATER HARVESTING REBATE PROGRAMS IN TUCSON, AZ

August 29, 2018

“An evaluation of Tucson’s water harvesting rebate programs was performed by Ethan Vimont, who published his results in his 2017 Thesis for a Master of Science degree from the University of Arizona. Vimont found that water harvesting system maintenance is necessary to keep the system operating. If preventative measures are neglected, the system is likely to be troubled by water overflows, odor and mosquito problems. The most common maintenance need is cleaning gutters.

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City of Phoenix Produces GI/LID Cost-Benefit Study

July 24, 2018

In June 2018, the City of Phoenix released a report on a triple bottom line cost benefit analysis of various Green Infrastructure/Low Impact Development (GI/LID) features. The study provides information for decision-makers involved with City projects and private development who may want to incorporate GI/LID. 

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