With Funding Tight, Cities are Turning to Green Infrastructure

With Funding Tight, Cities are Turning to Green Infrastructure by Jim Robbins:

e360.yale.edu 23 Aug '12, 12pm

With Funding Tight, Cities are Turning to Green Infrastructure

With Funding Tight, Cities are Turning to Green Infrastructure From Seattle to Sweden, an ever-growing number of city and regional governments are using roof gardens, specially designed wetlands, and other forms of “green infrastructure” to rein in pollution from countless diffuse sources — and to save money. by jim robbins In Puget Sound, one of America’s great estuaries, killer whales, seals, and schools of salmon swim not far from more than 3 million people who live in the Seattle region. The presence of such impressive marine life, however, belies the fact that the sound is seriously polluted. When it rains, storm water washes into the same system of underground pipes that carries the region’s sewage, and 1 billion gallons a year overflow into the sound when area sewer systems contain more water than can be treated. In addition, motor oil, lawn chemicals, PCBs, heavy m...

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