PEOPLE/AWARDSStorm Lake received a Best Development Award for 2016 from the group 1000 Friends of Iowa, which honors projects that implement the efficient use of resources to develop sustainable communities that provide a high quality of life. Storm Lake was selected by a panel of independent jurors in the “civic category” for its work on the North Central Stormwater Project.A $48 million expansion to Staten Island’s Bluebelt that exists to help reduce flooding has won a sustainability award. The Woodrow Bluebelt expansion, which will create a new wetland at Sheldon Avenue, was given an Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure Envision Silver
