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Resilient Practices

Resilience, in the context of a community development and redevelopment, is defined as the ability to recover quickly from difficulties.

Examples of Flood Control and Green Stormwater Infrastructure

 

Examples
Brownfield to Stormwater Park
Brownfield to Waterfront Redevelopment
 
Tools Description
Brownfield Design Principles for Green Infrastructure Design principles for stormwater management on compacted, contaminated soils in dense urban areas
Coastal Resilience Tools Practical steps for assessing, identifying, and mitigating coastal flood issues.
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Green Infrastructure On this page, learn more about how other communities have realized cost savings through their green infrastructure programs as well as about tools you can use to inform your own cost-benefit analysis.
EPA Green Infrastructure Wizard (GIWIZ) Provides access to tools and resources that can support and promote water management and community planning decisions
EPA National Stormwater Calculator EPA’s National Stormwater Calculator (SWC) is a software application that estimates the annual amount of rainwater and frequency of runoff from a specific site. Estimates are based on local soil conditions, land cover, and historic rainfall records. Users supply information about the site’s land cover and then select the low impact development (LID) controls they would like to use. 
Flood Resilience Checklist Is your community prepared for a possible flood? Completing this flood resilience checklist can help you begin to answer that question.