Rain Gardens Reign
Kansas City sets an ambitious goal, and communities around the country follow.
StormCon May 2008
Rain gardens may have started in Maryland and been developed in
Maplewood and Burnsville, MN, but it was Kansas City, MO, that
put them on...
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Rain Gardens Reign
Kansas City sets an ambitious goal, and communities around the country follow.
StormCon May 2008
Rain gardens may have started in Maryland and been developed in
Maplewood and Burnsville, MN, but it was Kansas City, MO, that
put them on the map of public awareness.
If, as Rodgers and
Hammerstein told us in their musical Oklahoma!, “Everything’s up to
date in Kansas City,” the 10,000 Rain Gardens project there is on
the cutting edge of stormwater management.
Rodgers and Hammerstein aside, one thing in Kansas City is very
out of date: its water and wastewater infrastructure.
Some pipes
have been in the ground for more than 100 years.
So in August
2005, voters approved a $500 million bond issue that will fund new
and improved water infrastructure for Kansas City.
The bond issue is part of KC-ONE, a comprehensive plan for the
management of stormwater throughout the city and its suburbs.
It
will be years until all of the necessary work is completed.
To help manage
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