Every community is dealing with stormwater management and ways to fund added expenses it brings to cash-strapped budgets. As he develops a strategy for Decorah, Iowa, City Manager Chad Bird has been getting help and expertise from the Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities (IISC) at the University of Iowa.Graduate students and faculty advisors spent nine months in 2014 researching stormwater at no cost to the city other than some out-of-pocket expenses. Bird says the team helped define the issues and identify solutions covering two main topics, “How we best manage stormwater quality — contaminants that enter our rivers — and
Students Provide Expertise for Stormwater Plan
Studies of urban runoff and its affects on the local environment result in some very practical solutions for a small city in Iowa
