For decades, a stretch of Mill Brook in Athol, Massachusetts, was hidden beneath asphalt, largely out…
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A 1950s farm pond at one of Georgia’s busiest parks had leaking banks, failing pipes and decades of sediment; Roswell spent $3.1 million rebuilding it to manage runoff from 52 acres
Habitat features float near the centre of Roswell Area Park’s restored pond. A farm pond built…
A five-year Illinois project will restore 421 acres of wetlands, prairie and woodland while helping hold stormwater, part of an $11 million effort along 67 miles of river
The restored wetlands and floodplain will be able to hold stormwater for longer periods and release…
Texas turned an abandoned golf course into a 200-acre flood-control landscape; while still unfinished during Hurricane Harvey it held 100 million gallons of water
The Clear Lake City Water Authority decided to buy the golf course and use the land…
In the 1990s, New York chose wetlands over conventional storm sewers on Staten Island; the Bluebelt strategy saved taxpayers $80 million in infrastructure costs
New York City The City of New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Wetlands Strategy In the…