New Jersey Green Streets Case Studies
New Jersey Green Streets Case Studies
Jersey Water Works and EPA Region 2 report, New Jersey Green Streets Case Studies, highlights how green streets can help smaller cities like Camden and Hoboken and towns like Highland Park to meet flooding and stormwater challenges while providing community benefits. The Jersey Water Works Green Infrastructure Committee and EPA Region 2 partnered to develop these case studies with help from local officials from Camden, Hoboken, and Highland Park. Jersey Water Works is committed to mainstreaming the implementation of green infrastructure throughout New Jersey.
Download the report by clicking the link below. Jersey Water Works' Green Streets in New Jersey Portfolio has additional examples of successful cases of green infrastructure.
Has your town implemented a green street? Email Andrew Tabas to connect.
Solving Water Challenges in Disadvantaged Communities
Solving Water Challenges in Disadvantaged Communities: A Handbook to Understanding the Issues in California and Best Practices for Engagement
Water Education Foundation's report, Solving Water Challenges in Disadvantaged Communities: A Handbook to Understanding the Issues in California and Best Practices for Engagement, offers background and expert advice for those working to help the estimated 1 million Californians who face significant challenges accessing clean, affordable drinking water or meeting sanitation or stormwater needs. The handbook is intended as a resource for anyone working to aid communities that have historically struggled to make their water resource needs known to agencies with the means to help.
Click the link below to download the handbook.
About Water Education Foundation
"Taking a steady pulse of the water world, the Foundation _ an impartial nonprofit _ offers educational materials, tours of key watersheds, water news, water leadership training and conferences that bring together diverse voices. By providing tools and platforms for engagement with wide audiences, our team aims to help build sound and collective solutions to water issues."
Webinar Slides: Advancing Evidence-Based Decision Making
Advancing Evidence-Based Decision Making
Click the link below to download the slides from WaterNow and EPI Center's August 13, 2020, Advancing Evidence-Based Decision Making webinar.
An Assessment of Urban Water Demand Forecasts in California
An Assessment of Urban Water Demand Forecasts in California
Published: August 2020, Pacific Institute
Authors: Sonali Abraham, Sarah Diringer, and Heather Cooley
In California, urban per capita water demand has declined dramatically over the past several decades, driven in part by greater uptake of water-efficient devices. These reductions have important implications for estimating future water demand. However, failure to account for the long-term trend of declining per capita water demand has led to routine overestimation of future water demand. This can lead to unnecessary and costly investment in unneeded infrastructure and new sources of supply, higher costs, and adverse environmental impacts. This report examines the accuracy of long-range water demand forecasts for California’s 10 largest urban water suppliers. It finds that per capita water demand declined for all water suppliers between 2000 and 2015.
Atlanta Green Infrastructure Strategic Action Plan
The City of Atlanta's Green Infrastructure Strategic Action Plan promotes and supports the implementation of green infrastructure throughout the City by all City departments, partners and the private sector. Atlanta describes green infrastructure as a cost-effective way for the City to address localized flooding and water quality concerns from stormwater runoff, while improving the resiliency of watersheds and natural resources in the face of rapid growth and climate change. These types of infrastructure investments also provide significant environmental,
economic and community benefits to City of Atlanta residents. This action plan also supports the Mayor’s goal of becoming a top tier sustainable city.
Click the link below to download a copy of Atlanta's Green Infrastructure Strategic Action Plan.
Tucson Rate Impacts of Increased Water Efficiency
Tucson Examines the Rate Impacts of Increased Water Efficiency and Finds Customer Savings
Authors: Candice Rupprecht, Mary M. Allen, and Peter Mayer
Publication: AWWA Journal, Feature Article
Date: January 3, 2020
"To answer one of the most vexing customer questions in the water industry—Why do you ask me to conserve and then raise my rates?—utilities have recently begun conducting avoided-cost analyses. ... An avoided-cost analysis considers current and historic population and per capita demand as well as a utility’s current budget, disaggregating them into variable and fixed system costs, and foregone infrastructure and supply acquisition projects." This AWWA Journal feature article details Tucson Water's avoided cost analysis finding that the utility's three decades of water conservation saved the community $416 million in avoided system costs.
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Water Use Efficiency Data Study
West Basin Municipal Water District Water Use Efficiency Data Study Fiscal Year 2018-2019
West Basin worked with EKI Environment & Water, Inc. to develop this Water Use Efficiency Data Study to provide a plan that articulates guiding principles and strategies for West Basin’s WUE programs and services and facilitate innovation and adaptability given California’s rapidly changing water resources landscape. Through this effort, a series of fifteen recommendations for West Basin’s overall WUE program were developed covering topics such as communication and outreach, customer agency planning and regulatory compliance support, residential WUE programs, and commercial, industrial, and institutional WUE programs.
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Step for Establishing a Local Stormwater Program
Steps for Considering and Implementing a Local Stormwater Program
In March 2019, New Jersey enacted legislation authorizing municipalities, counties, and municipal or county wastewater utilities and utility authorities to establish a stormwater utility on a voluntary basis. This New Jersey Future Fact Sheet sets out the key steps for localities considering establishing a stormwater utility.
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Regional Stormwater Management
Regional Stormwater Management: Flood Control at Lower Cost
This New Jersey Future Policy Recommendation report makes the case for taking a regional approach for stormwater management. New Jersey Future finds: "Coordinating efforts across a region can be more effective at solving watershed problems than a fragmented approach where the methods used by one town may conflict with those used in another."
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Stormwater Utilities: Overview of Fee Structure & Incentives
Stormwater Utilities: Overview of Fee Structure & Incentive Programs
On March 18, 2019, New Jersey became the 41st state to enact legislation, the Clean Stormwater and Flood Reduction Act, authorizing the creation of stormwater utilities by municipalities, counties, municipal or county sewerage or utilities authorities, or through shared services agreements involving two or more municipalities, the latter of which may or may not include the surrounding county. This report from New Jersey Future outlines how stormwater utilities can structure their fees and establish incentive programs for their ratepayers.
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