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Green Streets - Green Neighborhoods

Through Green Streets - Green Neighborhoods, WMG works with neighborhoods, homeowner associations, businesses, institutions, and informal community groups to promote and install green infrastructure practices to improve community livability. Our program provides citizens with the skills and resources to problem-solve and take action on issues of flooding, stormwater pollution, urban heat island effect, alternative transportation, and neighborhood beautification in their own neighborhoods. 

GI Manual for Southwestern NeighborhoodsWatershed Management Group has published a guide, "Green Streets for Southwestern Neighborhoods." This manual provides information on designing and installing green infrastructure practices that clean air and stormwater, reduce flooding, calm traffic, and cool and beautify neighborhoods through the use of stormwater harvesting and native vegetation.  The manual is meant for neighborhood residents and professionals alike.  To download the guide, click here (12MB pdf).  

 

 

WMG conducts educational activities, lead hands-on workshops, and advocates for green infrastructure practices.  Green Infrastructure approaches include:

  • construction of bioretention facilities (including in-street, right-of-way, and parking lot stormwater capture),
  • implementation of rain gardens and downspout disconnection (residential water harvesting),
  • reduction of hardscape,
  • restoration of riparian buffers and greenways/wildlife corridors,
  • promotion of urban forestry, and
  • creation of neighborhood mini-parks featuring sustainable landscaping practices.

Long seen as a problem to be flushed from our neighborhoods as quickly as possible, stormwater is now being recognized as a potential resource that can be used for community goals like increased streetside vegetation and water conservation.

Take Action and support WMG as we collaborate with neighborhood leaders to develop cost-effective solutions.  To learn more about stormwater issues and solutions, please follow the links below:

 



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