All Hands on Deck: Creating Green Infrastructure to Combat Flooding in Toledo
Staff at the City of Toledo partnered with government agencies, local businesses, and non-profit organizations to consider and begin implementing green infrastructure projects to deal with flooding. Their work also inspired a guide advising other communities how they could do the same.
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Adapted with permission by Allyson Alvis and Benjamin Chappelow, writing interns with UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC), from "Green Infrastructure Guidance for Flood Reduction," by Tashya Allen, Rachael Franks Taylor, and Lauren Long, The Baldwin Group, NOAA OCM, originally published June 23, 2016, in the Great Lakes Coastal Resilience Planning Guide; from the "Green Infrastructure for Localized Flood Management" webcast hosted by EPA on December 2, 2014, featuring speakers Lori Cary-Kothera, NOAA OCM, and Patekka Bannister, City of Toledo Division of Environmental Services; and from the Peer-to-Peer Case Study "Building Momentum for Green Infrastructure Implementation" from NOAA OCM's Digital Coast, last modified September 20, 2019. See links at right, under "Additional Resources."
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23 April 2024 - 9:52am
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