Event Title
UNO Rainworks Challenge
Collaborator(s)
Robert Evans, Kevin Harrison
Faculty Sponsor
Benjamin Shirtcliff
Submission Type
Poster
Description
The UNO Rainworks Team, featuring myself along with graduate students Kevin Harrison and Bobby Evans and led by our faculty advisor Ben Shirtcliff, proposed a green infrastructure design to the EPA’s Campus Rainworks Challenge as both a functional improvement to the campus and its community as well as an educational opportunity for a unique region lacking adequate, locally relevant, quantifiable data to encourage best management practices (BMPs). / / This project has the support of a local non-profit community development organization Project Homecoming. Project Homecoming has committed to award a matching grant of $10,000 for the implementation of this project. / / As a member of this team, I designed the site and made the connection with Project Homecoming. / / Our proposed demonstration site will measure the effectiveness of BMP construction practices to effectively improve environmental quality, helping to create a model for urban infill projects in other deltaic regions—filling an important under-researched niche. / / The proposed demonstration site is highly innovative as it will: / • be the first element of green infrastructure built on the fifty year-old, 250 acre campus; / • incorporate necessary monitoring equipment, data management, and analysis to test the validity of BMPs in deltaic regions to remove pollutants, improve infiltration, decrease subsidence, improve evapotranspiration, and decrease runoff; / • serve as an important outreach tool to encourage the surrounding community to understand the benefits of upstream stormwater diversions to diminish persistent flooding and subsidence and improve water quality / / The project was submitted to the EPA in December 2012. The award date is April 22nd, 2013. / /
UNO Rainworks Challenge
The UNO Rainworks Team, featuring myself along with graduate students Kevin Harrison and Bobby Evans and led by our faculty advisor Ben Shirtcliff, proposed a green infrastructure design to the EPA’s Campus Rainworks Challenge as both a functional improvement to the campus and its community as well as an educational opportunity for a unique region lacking adequate, locally relevant, quantifiable data to encourage best management practices (BMPs). / / This project has the support of a local non-profit community development organization Project Homecoming. Project Homecoming has committed to award a matching grant of $10,000 for the implementation of this project. / / As a member of this team, I designed the site and made the connection with Project Homecoming. / / Our proposed demonstration site will measure the effectiveness of BMP construction practices to effectively improve environmental quality, helping to create a model for urban infill projects in other deltaic regions—filling an important under-researched niche. / / The proposed demonstration site is highly innovative as it will: / • be the first element of green infrastructure built on the fifty year-old, 250 acre campus; / • incorporate necessary monitoring equipment, data management, and analysis to test the validity of BMPs in deltaic regions to remove pollutants, improve infiltration, decrease subsidence, improve evapotranspiration, and decrease runoff; / • serve as an important outreach tool to encourage the surrounding community to understand the benefits of upstream stormwater diversions to diminish persistent flooding and subsidence and improve water quality / / The project was submitted to the EPA in December 2012. The award date is April 22nd, 2013. / /
Comments
1st place, Poster, College of Liberal Arts