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CSO #5Green Infrastructure
Opportunities
Location
CSO #5 “Sewershed”
Green Infrastructure• Essentially makes an urban environment act
a little more like a natural environment.• Reduces costs for MSD - less stormwater
gets into the system, thus MSD can spend less on expensive new “gray” infrastructure.
• Lots of knock-on benefits for the environment: lower cooling demands, less erosion, esthetics.
• Knock-on benefits for the community: revitalization, nuisance flood avoidance, more green!
Green Infrastructure - Examples
Pervious Pavement Apron
Pervious Asphalt
RainBarrel
Green Infrastructure - Examples
Green Roofs
Detention Ponds
Rain Gardens
We need YOU!• Sierra Club is urging MSD to
start mitigating CSO #5 immediately, using every Green Infrastructure tool, at every opportunity in the sewershed.
• We (including MSD) need the community behind this to make it happen!
Possible Support• Community Councils
– Forward-looking image– Revitalization platform
• City Council– Image & revitalization, but also helps with
Consent Decree expenses
• MSD– Stated Green Infrastructure policy– Could fund revitalization platform as part of
Consent Decree
• Other institutions & organizations?
Neighborhoods
Strategies
• City is the biggest landowner, most important sites.
• Board of Ed. is also big.• Several major private owners
have mostly scattered sites.• City could set an example,
maybe bring along other large owners.
Strategic Land Owners
Strategies
•Vacant land and buildings = Opportunities!
•Turn Consent Decree into revitalization platform
Vacant & Strategic Land Uses
Condemned Buildings
Opportunities
Implementation• Sierra Club
– Work with Community Councils & Other Local Groups
– Help with strategy
• City Council– Overlay district?– Property owners required to implement Green
Infrastructure techniques that MSD funds through Consent Decree
• MSD– Seems supportive– Part of Consent Decree