Handbook of water sensitive planning and design

Background — Perspectives of water management: Representative examples from the recent literature ..............................................................................................................1 Robert France PART I WATER SENSITIVE DESIGN Responses by Robert France Overview: New interpretations in stormwater management and wetland park creation ...................................................................................................................9 I.1 Stormwater management and stormwater restoration ...............................................11 Bruce K. Ferguson Response — Stormwater infiltration: Curing the disease rather than treating the symptoms I.2 Successful stormwater management ponds (Massachusetts) ...................................31 Desheng Wang Response — Centralized stormwater treatment: Improving performance through engineering design I.3 Open spaces and impervious surfaces: Model development principles and benefits .........................................................................................................................49 Jennifer A. Zielinski Response — Using computer scenarios to improve site design I.4 Post-industrial watersheds: Retrofits and restorative redevelopment (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) ...............................................................................................67 Richard D. Pinkham and Timothy Collins Response — Raising consciousness through interdisciplinary design workshops I.5 Low-impact development: An alternative stormwater management technology ...................................................................................................97 Larry S. Coffman Response — Thinking big, acting small: Multi-tasking and the benefits of dispersed micromanagement I.6 Water gardens as stormwater infrastructure (Portland, Oregon) ..........................125 Thomas Liptan and Robert K. Murase Response — Letting it soak in I.7 Retaining water: Technical support for capturing parking lot runoff (Ithaca, New York) ...........................................................................................................155 Robert France and Philip Craul Response — To build an oxymoron: A green parking lot I.8 A productive stormwater park (Farmington, Minnesota) .......................................175 Diana Balmori Response — Successfully marrying form and function in stormwater management I.9 A stormwater wetland becomes a nature park (British Columbia, Canada) ...........................................................................................193 Catherine Berris Response — Naturalized design: Triumph of imagination and innovation I.10 Wetlands-based indirect potable reuse project (West Palm Beach, Florida) ......205 Larry N. Schwartz, Lee P. Wiseman, and W. Erik Olson Response — Treating wastewater with innovative technology I.11 Restoring urban wetland — pond systems (Boston, Massachusetts) ...................215 Clarissa Rowe Response — Project development through concerned citizenry I.12 Water connections: Wetlands for science instruction (Wichita, Kansas) .............235 Robert France and Kaki Martin Response — Project development of interpretive wetlands I.13 Constructed wetlands and stormwater management at the Northern Water Feature (Sydney Olympic Park) ........................................................................247 Glenn Allen Response — Highly visible water: Recreating a landscape for public use I.14 Principles and applications of wetland park creation .............................................263 James S. Bays Response — Designing wetlands for multiple benefits I.15 Applications of low-impact development techniques (Maryland) .......................297 Michael L. Clar Response — Values of demonstration projects and case studies of stormwater source management I.16 Restoring and protecting a small, urban lake (Boston, Massachusetts) ..............317 Nicholas Pouder and Robert France Response — Buying time by bioengineering I.17 Integrated ecology, geomorphology, and bioengineering for watershed-friendly design.......................................................................................341 Wendi Goldsmith Response — Sustainability through interdisciplinarity Discussion summary: Constraints, challenges, and opportunities in implementing innovative stormwater management techniques ................................355 Discussion summary: Moving from single-purpose treatment wetlands toward multifunction designed wetland parks...................................................................357 PART II WATER SENSITIVE PLANNING Responses by Robert France Overview: New interpretations in the management of watersheds and riparian buffers and corridors.................................................................................................359 II.1 Shoreline buffers: Protecting water quality and biological diversity (New Hampshire).............................................................................................................361 Frank Mitchell Response — Buffer strips: More than green eyelashes? II.2 River restoration planning (Connecticut)...................................................................379 James G. MacBroom Response — Water quality improvements are not enough II.3 Greenways as green infrastructure in the new millennium ..................................395 Charles A. Flink Response — Corridors that integrate natural, societal, and social elements II.4 Natural resource stewardship planning and design: Fresh Pond Reservation (Massachusetts).................................................................................................................407 Thomas S. Benjamin Response — Protecting and restoring treasured landscapes: Complexity and integration II.5 Treating rivers as systems to meet multiple objectives...........................................431 Leslie Zucker, Anne Weekes, Mark Vian, and Jay D. Dorsey Response — Beyond the banks: Holistic planning of rivers as more than the sum of their parts II.6 What progress has been made in the Remedial Action Plan program after ten years of effort? (Ontario, Canada) ...............................................................445 Gail Krantzberg and Judi Barnes Response — Measuring recovery of impaired waters II.7 Watershed management plans: Bridging from science to policy to operations (San Francisco, California)....................................................................459 David Blau Response — Sociology of implementing adaptive management II.8 Watershed assessment planning process assessment (Johnson County, Kansas) ..............................................................................................477 Dennis A. Haag, Stephen A. Hurst, and Bryan J. Bear Response — Managing suburban watersheds for multiple objectives II.9 Urban watershed management (Detroit, Michigan) ................................................491 Kelly A. Cave Response — Looking beyond the end of the pipe II.10 Modeling a soil moisture index using geographic information systems in a developing country context (Thailand)...............................................513 John S. Felkner and Michael W. Binford Response — Incorporating scientific information into land-use planning II.11 The design of regions: A watershed planning approach to sustainability.........541 Daniel Williams Response — Expanding planning vision in space and time II.12 GIS watershed mapping: Developing and implementing a watershed natural resources inventory (New Hampshire).........................................................557 Jeffrey A. Schloss Response — Janus planning: Using computer tools to look backward and forward simultaneously II.13 The effect of spatial location in land–water interactions: A comparison of two modeling approaches to support watershed planning (Newfoundland, Canada)...............................................................................................577 Margot Young Cantwell Response — Linking land use to landscapes for water quality protection II.14 Spatial investigation of applying Ontario’s timber management guidelines: GIS analysis for riparian areas of concern.................................................................601 Robert France, John S. Felkner, Michael Flaxman, and Robert Rempel Response — Size matters II.15 Aquifer recharge management model: Evaluating the impacts of urban development on groundwater resources (Galilee, Israel).......................................615 Amir Mueller, Robert France, and Carl Steinitz Response — Planning by examining alternatives II.16 Factors influencing sediment transport from logging roads near boreal trout lakes (Ontario, Canada)........................................................................................635 Robert France Response — Empirically testing planning assumptions II.17 Limnology, plumbing and planning: Evaluation of nutrient-based limits to shoreline development in Precambrian Shield watersheds ..............................647 Neil J. Hutchinson Response — Land–lake linkages and land-use limits Discussion summary: Social and political issues in managing riparian buffers and corridors.................................................................................................................683 Discussion summary: Multiple objectives in watershed management through use of GIS analysis ....................................................................................................685 Postscript: Implementing water sensitive planning and design .....................................687 Index ............................................................................................................................................689