SynergiCity by Paul Hardin Kapp

Author:Paul Hardin Kapp
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780252093937
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

CHAPTER EIGHT

Rethinking Storm Water

A MODEL FOR SYNERGICITY

JAMES H. WASLEY

In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies too.

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Zero-Discharge Masterplan for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

In the fall of 2004, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) partnered with the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM) to undertake two projects; “UWM as a Zero-Discharge Zone,” a speculative storm water masterplan for the campus, and “the Pavilion Gateway,” an ecological “best management practice” (BMP) demonstration project managing the runoff from a 4-acre portion of the campus (Wasley 2006a, 2006b). The first was the result of an unsolicited proposal by me. The second was in response to a call for proposals that came out before the masterplanning had begun but could not be executed within the time frame of the funding, leading to the fortuitous agreement that the university would use the demonstration funds to plan in detail a more ambitious project and put off the question of construction funding. The two projects essentially became one, with the detailed design study informing the masterplanning process, and vice verse.

The Zero-Discharge Zone (ZDZ) Masterplan that resulted from this intensive investigation provides a road map for transforming UWM’s 90-acre urban campus into a bioregional center for design research into ecological urban storm water management or “green infrastructure.” It provides lessons for the transformation of many postindustrial midwestern cities into SynergiCities in their relationship with the region’s uniquely abundant freshwater.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.