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'Green' Infrastructure Will Greatly Benefit Pennsylvania City, U.S. EPA Says Landers, Jay . Civil Engineering ; New York  Vol. 84, Iss. 5,  (May 2014): 22.

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ABSTRACT  

If Lancaster, PA, is any guide, cities may be able to obtain significant economic benefits by building green'

infrastructure on a major scale. A recent report from the US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that

Lancaster's long-term plan for implementing green infrastructure, in this case storm-water management

approaches that mimic or restore natural hydrologic processes within the built environment, would cost

significantly less than the city's original strategy to use traditional, or gray, infrastructure to store and treat storm-

water runoff. The city's combined sewer system discharges approximately 750 million gal of combined sewer

overflows annually into the Conestoga River. On an annual basis the green infrastructure plan is expected to

generate more than $4.8 million in additional benefits that would begin after the 25-year implementation period.

DETAILS

Subject: Infrastructure; Stormwater management; Cost reduction; Sewer systems; Urban

planning; Construction industry

Location: United States--US

Classification: 9190: United States; 1540: Pollution control; 1200: Social policy; 8370: Construction

&engineering industry

Publication title: Civil Engineering; New York

Volume: 84

Issue: 5

First page: 22

Publication year: 2014

Publication date: May 2014

Section: NEWS

Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers

Place of publication: New York

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Country of publication: Unit ed States, New York

Publication subject: Engineering--Civil Engineering

ISSN: 08857024

CODEN: CIEGAG

Source type: Scholarly Journals

Language of publication: English

Document type: Feature

Document feature: Photographs

ProQuest document ID: 1534324582

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Copyright: Copyright American Society of Civil Engineers May 2014

Last updated: 2017-11-21

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