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Redeveloping Brownfields with LID Design
In FY 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provided more than $500,000 in technical assistance for 16 Brownfields Sustainability Pilots that support activities such as the reuse and recycling of construction and demolition materials, green building and infrastructure design, energy efficiency, water conservation, renewable energy, and low-impact development (LID). Through the pilots, EPA directly assists communitities to incorporate sustainable redevelopment into the planning, design, and implementation of their brownfields projects. Three pilots that incorporate LID strategies to manage urban stormwater are discussed, including a mixed-use riverfront redevelopment in Allentown, PA; an affordable workforce housing redevelopment in Greenville, SC; and a LID parking lot for the planned Haynes Recreation Center in Laredo, TX. At the Waterfront Redevelopment in Allentown, PA, the proposed master plan includes approximately 1 million square feet (sf) of building area in an urban setting with residential, retail, and office space. LID practices incorporated at this 26-acre site include soil bioengineering techniques, naturalized detention areas with wetland vegetation, infiltration trenches with filter strips, pervious pavement, bioretention, green roofs, cisterns, and rain barrels. At the City of Greenville, a small-scale, affordable workforce housing redevelopment is planned with six detached, singlefamily houses. LID and sustainable features of the site plan include community gardens, a passive park with a plaza and native landscaping, rain gardens, bioswales, infiltration trenches, pervious paving, rain barrels, and solar panels. For the City of Laredo Haynes Recreation Center, LID practices incorporated in the design of one of the center's parking lots include pervious pavement, envirogrid geocells with flat curbs, bioretention, vegetated swales, and infiltration trenches. These projects exemplify how LID practices can be incorporated into brownfields redevelopment projects, while considering contaminated soil or groundwater constraints, to help restore urban watersheds.
Redeveloping Brownfields with LID Design
In FY 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provided more than $500,000 in technical assistance for 16 Brownfields Sustainability Pilots that support activities such as the reuse and recycling of construction and demolition materials, green building and infrastructure design, energy efficiency, water conservation, renewable energy, and low-impact development (LID). Through the pilots, EPA directly assists communitities to incorporate sustainable redevelopment into the planning, design, and implementation of their brownfields projects. Three pilots that incorporate LID strategies to manage urban stormwater are discussed, including a mixed-use riverfront redevelopment in Allentown, PA; an affordable workforce housing redevelopment in Greenville, SC; and a LID parking lot for the planned Haynes Recreation Center in Laredo, TX. At the Waterfront Redevelopment in Allentown, PA, the proposed master plan includes approximately 1 million square feet (sf) of building area in an urban setting with residential, retail, and office space. LID practices incorporated at this 26-acre site include soil bioengineering techniques, naturalized detention areas with wetland vegetation, infiltration trenches with filter strips, pervious pavement, bioretention, green roofs, cisterns, and rain barrels. At the City of Greenville, a small-scale, affordable workforce housing redevelopment is planned with six detached, singlefamily houses. LID and sustainable features of the site plan include community gardens, a passive park with a plaza and native landscaping, rain gardens, bioswales, infiltration trenches, pervious paving, rain barrels, and solar panels. For the City of Laredo Haynes Recreation Center, LID practices incorporated in the design of one of the center's parking lots include pervious pavement, envirogrid geocells with flat curbs, bioretention, vegetated swales, and infiltration trenches. These projects exemplify how LID practices can be incorporated into brownfields redevelopment projects, while considering contaminated soil or groundwater constraints, to help restore urban watersheds.
Redeveloping Brownfields with LID Design
Papakos, Tatiana H. (author) / Gould, Mindy (author) / Brunner, Jack (author)
Low Impact Development International Conference (LID) 2010 ; 2010 ; San Francisco, California, United States
Low Impact Development 2010 ; 1684-1697
2010-04-06
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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