Stormwater Strategies: Cities Prepare Aging Infrastructure for Climate Change

Kessler, Rebecca

doi:10.1289/ehp.119-a514

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“…Communities such as Keene, New Hampshire; New York City, New York; King County, Washington; and Chicago, Illinois are vanguards in the creation of climate adaptation strategies (Binder et al 2010;Solecki and Rosenzweig 2012). These communities are now implementing their strategies-such as stormwater pipe replacement in Keene, green infrastructure installations in New York City, and green roofs in Chicago (Carter and Fowler 2008;Cruce 2009;Hamin and Gurran 2009;Kessler 2011;Rosenzweig et al 2011a;Sussman 2009 Tribal governments have also been active in assessing and preparing for the impacts of climate change. For example, adaptation planning in Point Hope, Alaska considered climate impacts and potential actions for issues such as community health (Brubaker et al 2010).…”

Section: Local/regional and Tribal Governmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A comprehensive review of climate adaptation in the United States: more than before, but less than needed

Bierbaum

Smith

Lee

et al. 2012

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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We reviewed existing and planned adaptation activities of federal, tribal, state, and local governments and the private sector in the United States (U.S.) to understand what types of adaptation activities are underway across different sectors and scales throughout the country. Primary sources of review included material officially submitted for consideration in the upcoming 2013 U.S. National Climate Assessment and supplemental peer-reviewed and grey literature. Although substantial adaptation planning is occurring in various sectors, levels of government, and the private sector, few measures have been implemented and even fewer have been evaluated. Most adaptation actions to date appear to be incremental changes, not the transformational changes that may be needed in certain cases to adapt to significant changes in climate. While there appear to be no one-size-fits-all adaptations, there Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change (2013) are similarities in approaches across scales and sectors, including mainstreaming climate considerations into existing policies and plans, and pursuing no-and low-regrets strategies. Despite the positive momentum in recent years, barriers to implementation still impede action in all sectors and across scales. The most significant barriers include lack of funding, policy and institutional constraints, and difficulty in anticipating climate change given the current state of information on change. However, the practice of adaptation can advance through learning by doing, stakeholder engagements (including "listening sessions"), and sharing of best practices. Efforts to advance adaptation across the U.S. and globally will necessitate the reduction or elimination of barriers, the enhancement of information and best practice sharing mechanisms, and the creation of comprehensive adaptation evaluation metrics.

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Section: Local/regional and Tribal Governmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A comprehensive review of climate adaptation in the United States: more than before, but less than needed

Bierbaum

Smith

Lee

et al. 2012

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

372

202

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“…Although some cities applied separated sewerage networks, most of urban areas still employed their aging combined systems to convey both municipal wastewater and storm-water together, even in the Europe and North America regions. These systems were very sensitive to rainfall intensity (Kessler, 2011;NACWA, 2009). The intensified rainfall regime may increase the sewage flow in the conveyance system by infiltration through cracks, improperly-constructed manholes or even direct inflow (O'Neill, 2010).…”

Section: Precipitationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A mini-review on the impacts of climate change on wastewater reclamation and reuse

Ngo

Guo

et al. 2014

Science of The Total Environment

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To tackle current water insecurity concerns, wastewater reclamation and reuse has appeared as a promising candidate to conserve the valuable fresh water sources whilst increasing the efficiency of material utilization. The climate change, nevertheless, poses both opportunities and threats to the wastewater reclamation industry. Whereas it elevates the social perception on water-related issues and fosters an emerging water-reuse market, the climate change simultaneously presents adverse impacts on the water reclamation scheme, either directly or indirectly. These effects were studied fragmentally in separate realms. Hence, this paper aims to link these studies for providing a thorough understanding about the consequences of the climate change on the wastewater reclamation and reuse. It initially summarizes contemporary treatment processes and their reuse purposes before carrying out a systematic analysis of available findings.

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“…As an example, 150 mm rainfall over a 3 h period in Toronto, Ontario in 2005 flooded basements, washed away roads, overloaded treatment plants and destroyed water, wastewater and stormwater pipes. The storm was responsible for more than $500 million in damages and is considered to be the most expensive natural disaster to ever occur in Ontario (Kessler 2011). …”

Section: The Threat Posed By Deteriorating Stormwater Pipesmentioning

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Understanding Stormwater Pipe Deterioration Through Data Mining

Harvey

McBean

2014

JWMM

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Stormwater pipe condition is commonly assessed using closed circuit television (CCTV) inspection, a task which is both expensive and time consuming. Consequently, most municipalities have been limiting their inspections to small portions of their stormwater systems. A data mining procedure using a powerful classification tree methodology is developed to extract asset condition information related to stormwater pipe integrity. A case study illustrates the process of developing classification trees using a dataset of pipe condition obtained after inspecting one third of the stormwater pipes in Guelph, Ontario. The classification tree illustrates the influence of construction year, diameter, length and slope on pipe condition in an easily interpretable format. An overall success rate of 71% (301/425 instances of pipe condition correctly classified in a stratified test set) indicates the utility of the model when predicting the condition of the remaining two thirds of the pipes in the stormwater system that have not yet been inspected.

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Stormwater Strategies: Cities Prepare Aging Infrastructure for Climate Change

Cited by 73 publications

References 9 publications

A comprehensive review of climate adaptation in the United States: more than before, but less than needed

A comprehensive review of climate adaptation in the United States: more than before, but less than needed

A mini-review on the impacts of climate change on wastewater reclamation and reuse

Understanding Stormwater Pipe Deterioration Through Data Mining

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