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Description: Green infrastructure delivers multiple benefits to urban neighborhoods
Green infrastructure delivers multiple benefits to urban neighborhoods
United States (US) land development regulations and state bond-funded grant programs are encouraging municipalities and nonprofit organizations to incorporate green infrastructure into metropolitan areas. Dean Audet, PE of Fuss & O’Neill, Inc. explains how two projects in the state of Rhode Island are improving health, quality of life, property values, and stormwater management.
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Dean Audet
SourceArticle from World Water: Stormwater Management Magazine Autumn Issue
Project IDSWM149
SubjectAutumn Issue
Document typeMagazine article
PublisherWater Environment Federation
Print publication date Aug 2020
Volume / Issue8 / 3
Content sourceWorld Water: Stormwater Management
First / last page(s)16 - 17
Copyright2020
Word count1,623
Subject keywordsGreen InfrastructureUrban Stormwater Management
Associated keywords:Rhode Island Department of TransportationRIDOTFuss & O'Neilltransit-oriented developmenturban drainage

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Description: Green infrastructure delivers multiple benefits to urban neighborhoods
Stormwater project in Olneyville Square creates open green space
Green infrastructure delivers multiple benefits to urban neighborhoods
The Olneyville Square neighbor-hood in Providence is above the 90th percentile for almost all EJ indices as compared to the rest of Rhode Island and US EPA Region 1 demographics, as defined by the EPA’s Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool. The landscape of this neighborhood largely consists of impervious surfaces, buildings, parking lots, and roads, with little green space.
PublisherWater Environment Federation
Copyright2020
Word count532
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Description: Green infrastructure delivers multiple benefits to urban neighborhoods
Transit-oriented development investment in Pawtucket
Green infrastructure delivers multiple benefits to urban neighborhoods
The City of Pawtucket and the State of Rhode Island are committing substantial resources to the redevelopment of a new transit-oriented development (TOD) district in Pawtucket and Central Falls. This district is comprised of mostly underused buildings within a 64.7-hectare (160-acre) area that is 91 percent impervious. The project site, as well as most of the TOD district, is located within an EJ...
PublisherWater Environment Federation
Copyright2020
Word count404
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Description: Green infrastructure delivers multiple benefits to urban neighborhoods
Author’s Note
Green infrastructure delivers multiple benefits to urban neighborhoods
Dean Audet, PE is the Water and Natural Resources Business Line leader at Fuss & O’Neill, Inc., headquartered in Manchester, Connecticut, United States.
PublisherWater Environment Federation
Copyright2020
Word count25
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Green infrastructure delivers multiple benefits to urban neighborhoods