World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2019
Green Infrastructure Inventory Review in Southern California
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2019: Groundwater, Sustainability, Hydro-Climate/Climate Change, and Environmental Engineering
ABSTRACT
Green infrastructure (GI) projects provide new and sustainable solutions for managing stormwater by reducing impervious cover, capturing and conveying localized flood waters, promoting infiltration, replenishing depleting groundwater supplies, improving runoff quality, and increasing flood risk and drought resiliency. Green infrastructure projects have been implemented within southern California, including in the highly urbanized Los Angeles metropolitan area. However, despite the growing use of GI, there is a need to better understand the existing inventory of projects. This paper presents the review of the current portfolio of GI in the counties of Orange and Los Angeles, including the city of Los Angeles, through the development of a geographic information systems (GIS) database and the evaluation of pertinent project data from over 2,400 GI projects such as project types, locations, design volumes, and monitoring information. This review will improve understanding of the existing infrastructure for future planning, detailed design, and performance analyses to ensure optimal use of available resources.
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Acknowledgements
A number of people guided, contributed to, and reviewed the study. The authors would like to offer their appreciation to all of them for their valuable data, support, and insights during this effort, especially representatives from the Counties of Orange and Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles, the USEPA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineering, Research, and Design Center, and the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Additional appreciation is expressed to the Silver Jackets Program, which funded the USACE participation in the project.
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World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2019: Groundwater, Sustainability, Hydro-Climate/Climate Change, and Environmental Engineering
Pages: 461 - 478
Editors: Gregory F. Scott and William Hamilton, Ph.D.
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8234-6
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