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Real-time hydrometric data from the Government of Canada: “This site provides public access to real-time hydrometric data collected at over 1800 locations and access to historical data collected at over 7600 stations (active and discontinued) in Canada.”
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This chart outlines how the City of Chicago allocates financial assistance for various sustainable development projects.
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Developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT) is a software tool to assist drinking water and wastewater utility owners and operators in understanding potential climate change threats and in assessing the related risks at their individual utilities. CREAT allows users to evaluate potential impacts of climate change on their utility and to evaluate adaptation options to address these impacts using both traditional risk assessment and scenario-based decision making.
CREAT provides libraries of drinking water and wastewater utility assets (e.g., water resources, treatment plants, pump stations) that could be impacted by climate change, possible climate change-related threats (e.g., flooding, drought, water quality), and adaptive measures that can be implemented to reduce the impacts of climate change.
The tool guides users through identifying threats based on regional differences in climate change projections and designing adaptation plans based on the types of threats being considered. Following assessment, CREAT provides a series of risk reduction and cost reports that will allow the user to evaluate various adaptation options as part of long-term planning.
Visit site Climate Resilience Evaluation & Awareness Tool (CREAT)
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The Superfund Site is a contaminated area in the heart of the City’s waterfront. Its rehabilitation is part of the City’s Waterfront Development Plan and Comprehensive Plan: the Making of an Exceptional City. To do so, Ashland created a partnership with the Northern States Power Compagny-Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Department of Natural resources. All agreed that a collaborative approach would be the best to achieve the revitalization of that site.
You can download the brochure of the project and access these resources:
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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has published that brochure to help citizens understand how stormwater is managed in cities and how they can contribute to water runoff’s quality.
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The City of Superior is managing the development and the protection of its wetlands through a program called Special Area Management Plans and Wetland Preservation (SAMP II). It worked with the US Army Corps of Engineers to implement it.
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The US Drought Portal allows practitioners to access and interact with drought and climate related data, including maps and graphing capabilities, to help understand drought and how it changes over time. It’s meant to provide early warning about emerging and anticipated droughts, assimilate and quality control data about droughts and models, provide information about risk and impact of droughts to different agencies and stakeholders, provide information about past droughts for comparison and to understand current conditions, explain how to plan for and manage the impacts of droughts, and provide a forum for different stakeholders to discuss drought-related issues.
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Municipalities, and those that provide services to them, must become familiar with the resources available to help assess and address climate change implications on infrastructure services within a given region. Intended for those responsible for/involved in impact assessment, risk evaluation and response planning in support of climate change adaptation of infrastructure (e.g. Municipal staff, Elected officials and Professional service providers), the Canadian Standards Association’s Adapting Your Infrastructure to Climate Change, provides a roadmap of available tools and techniques that support vulnerability assessment, risk evaluation and response planning
Visit site E-Learning: Adapting Your Infrastructure To Climate Change
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Clean your Streams is an activity held along streams in the Maumee River Watershed coordinated by Partners for Clean Streams. Taking place every year since 1997, the clean-up day gathers almost a thousand of volunteers that remove tons of trash on the riverbanks.
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The City of Superior, Wisconsin, has implemented the Stormwater Flood Control Program (SFCP) to help its citizens to protect their houses from flooding. Inspections and plumbing modifications are part of that program.
