Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Green Infrastructure for Urban Watershed Management: An Ohio Case Study
Abstract
Many older Midwestern cities of the United States are challenged by costly aging water infrastructure while working to revitalize urban areas. These cities developed much of their water infrastructure before the Clean Water Act became law and have struggled to mitigate contaminant loading to surface waters. An increasingly common approach to resolving these challenges is the integration of green infrastructure with gray infrastructure improvements to manage point and non-point source pollution. Stakeholder engagement and collaboration during green infrastructure planning can help address impairments and promote community involvement through the revitalization process. Mill Creek watershed in Cincinnati, OH, USA has seen improvement in watershed integrity indicators after being impaired for many decades by flashy hydrology, combined sewer overflows, and water quality degradation. A workshop was conducted to examine how integrated green and gray infrastructure has contributed to improvements in Mill Creek over the past several decades. This effort sought to examine internal and external factors that influence a multi-stakeholder watershed approach to planning, implementing, and evaluating green infrastructure techniques. Community investment and physical infrastructure, access to datasets, and skills and knowledge exchange were essential in improving use attainment in the Mill Creek. Strategic placement of green infrastructure has the potential tomore »
- Authors:
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH (United States)
- Mill Creek Alliance, Cincinnati, OH (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1580723
- Grant/Contract Number:
- DW-8992433001
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Water (Basel)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Water (Basel); Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2073-4441
- Publisher:
- MDPI
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; use-attainment; social network analysis; urban planning; governance; social infrastructure
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Shifflett, Shawn Dayson, Newcomer-Johnson, Tammy, Yess, Tanner, and Jacobs, Scott. Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Green Infrastructure for Urban Watershed Management: An Ohio Case Study. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.3390/w11040738.
Shifflett, Shawn Dayson, Newcomer-Johnson, Tammy, Yess, Tanner, & Jacobs, Scott. Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Green Infrastructure for Urban Watershed Management: An Ohio Case Study. United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11040738
Shifflett, Shawn Dayson, Newcomer-Johnson, Tammy, Yess, Tanner, and Jacobs, Scott. Tue .
"Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Green Infrastructure for Urban Watershed Management: An Ohio Case Study". United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11040738. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1580723.
@article{osti_1580723,
title = {Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Green Infrastructure for Urban Watershed Management: An Ohio Case Study},
author = {Shifflett, Shawn Dayson and Newcomer-Johnson, Tammy and Yess, Tanner and Jacobs, Scott},
abstractNote = {Many older Midwestern cities of the United States are challenged by costly aging water infrastructure while working to revitalize urban areas. These cities developed much of their water infrastructure before the Clean Water Act became law and have struggled to mitigate contaminant loading to surface waters. An increasingly common approach to resolving these challenges is the integration of green infrastructure with gray infrastructure improvements to manage point and non-point source pollution. Stakeholder engagement and collaboration during green infrastructure planning can help address impairments and promote community involvement through the revitalization process. Mill Creek watershed in Cincinnati, OH, USA has seen improvement in watershed integrity indicators after being impaired for many decades by flashy hydrology, combined sewer overflows, and water quality degradation. A workshop was conducted to examine how integrated green and gray infrastructure has contributed to improvements in Mill Creek over the past several decades. This effort sought to examine internal and external factors that influence a multi-stakeholder watershed approach to planning, implementing, and evaluating green infrastructure techniques. Community investment and physical infrastructure, access to datasets, and skills and knowledge exchange were essential in improving use attainment in the Mill Creek. Strategic placement of green infrastructure has the potential to maximize water quality benefits and ecosystem services. However, green infrastructure deployment has been more opportunistic due to the diversity of stakeholder and decision maker interests. Future work should consider collaborative approaches to address scaling challenges and workforce development to maximize green infrastructure benefits.},
doi = {10.3390/w11040738},
journal = {Water (Basel)},
number = 4,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Tue Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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