Runoff Ramblings
Runoff Ramblings is the blog of the Center for Watershed Protection and is a forum for sharing ideas, resources, expertise, and information pertinent to watershed professionals. The blog consists of ramblings from Center staff, as well as guest bloggers and is updated regularly. We welcome your comments, as well as your ideas for guest bloggers. Please contact Lisa Fraley-McNeal at lfm@cwp.org with any questions, comments or to inquire about guest blogger opportunities.
About a year ago, I wrote in the Center’s Runoff Ramblings about some thoughts on green infrastructure…
Before "Green Infrastructure," there was low impact design, environmentally sensitive site design, conservation design, smart growth, and new urbanism. These concepts are certainly not all synonymous with each other, but they do share similar tenets of reduced environmental impacts…The different definitions of Green Infrastructure have been at the center of this morass. Recently, EPA defined green infrastructure as "an approach to wet weather management that is cost-effective, sustainable, and environmentally friendly" (retrieved on December 27, 2011 from (http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/home.cfm?program_id=298). The traditional use of the...
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