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To advance integrated stormwater management, which typically involves both gray and green infrastructure, a decision support system (DSS) called the Community-enabled Lifecycle Analysis of Stormwater Infrastructure Costs (CLASIC) has been under development since 2017 through collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team. The CLASIC tool serves as a screening tool that uses a life cycle cost (LCC)...
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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Co-benefits for GI generally are categorized as water quality and quantity, ecosystems, energy saving, climate resilience, air quality, and community benefits. However, a comprehensive and rigorous analysis regarding the framework to quantify the GI co-benefits specifically for utilities and municipalities is not yet available. Furthermore, many municipalities are looking to encourage developers...
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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As a critical component for integrated stormwater management, good data meeting the requirements of quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) protocol are crucial in supporting the decision making by utilities and municipalities.
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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The One Water approach considers the water cycle as a single, integrated system in which all urban water flows are recognized as potential resources. Such an approach seeks to optimize the interconnectedness of drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, reuse water, and groundwater.
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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Harry X. Zhang, PhD, PE, is the program director for integrated water and stormwater at The Water Research Foundation, located in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. The author would like to acknowledge the support for this article from the project teams for CLASIC (EPA National Priorities Grant #836173) and Framework and Tools for Quantifying Green Infrastructure Co-Benefits and Linking...
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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