One Water Leadership Summit 2013 - Module 2
Working With Nature: Green Infrastructure for Water Management and Community Resilience
Larry Schweiger, President & CEO, National Wildlife Federation
SPOTLIGHT: Atlanta
Atlanta has made great progress in developing an integrated approach to solving the City’s stormwater flooding issues and addressing its combined sewer system capacity. Several recent projects demonstrate Atlanta’s commitment to a sustainable green infrastructure approach to stormwater management and demonstrate the benefits of flood mitigation and improved water quality, as well as the social and economic benefits to the surrounding community. Policies and procedures are also changing to better integrate green infrastructure approaches to stormwater management and facilitate creation of an interdepartmental Green Stormwater Infrastructure Task Force.
Moderator:
John Batten, Vice President, ARCADIS
Panelists:
Jo Ann Macrina, Commissioner, Department of Watershed Management, City of Atlanta
Margaret Tanner, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Watershed Management, City of Atlanta
Catherine Owens, Senior Civil Engineer, Atlanta BeltLine, Inc.
Denise Quarles, Director, Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, City of Atlanta
Stacy Funderburke, Real Estate Associate, The Conservation Fund
Important Note: No Continuing Education credits are awarded for participation in this program.
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