For over 50 years, the Blandford Nature Center has been dedicated to fostering a deep connection between people and nature. Their mission is to enhance community engagement and environmental education by creating a welcoming and inclusive space where everyone can...
Engineering Design
Capital Bikeshare Green Mobility Hubs Program
Capital Bikeshare, operating in seven jurisdictions in and around Washington, D.C, is the second largest bikeshare system in the U.S. Project Scope Transportation and Mobility Stormwater Management Best Management Practices Due Diligence Permit Compliance Construction...
River Hills Conservancy – Constructed Wetlands
The River Hills Conservancy project restored former agricultural land to a prairie with constructed wetlands capable of storing nearly 2.5 million gallons of stormwater. The project balances land stewardship and stormwater management with the need and intention for...
Harley-Davidson Hub Park
Located in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District’s Combined Sewer System Area, the Harley-Davidson Hub Park uses an eye-catching design to capture over 225,000 gallons of stormwater. The multi-tiered landscape functions as a park that seamlessly integrates...
RainCity Partnerships
The RainCity Partnerships Program (RCP) is a community-based public private partnership with Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) at the City of Seattle. The program builds upon over two decades of work by SPU to prevent water pollution with nature-based approaches that...
Slauson Connect Clean Water Project
The Slauson Connect Clean Water Partnership (Slauson Connect) is a suite of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) features being constructed in conjunction with Council District 9’s proposed Slauson Connect Community Center. Los Angeles County Flood Control District...
Stormwater Utility Community-Based Partnership
In 2023, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas (UG) partnered with CIS to launch a community-based partnership (CBP) program to expand green stormwater infrastructure in the area. The program has received $78 million from a Water...
Fresh Coast Protection Partnership
In 2020, the Fresh Coast Protection Partnership (FCPP) was launched between Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) and CIS to expand the use of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) solutions to address flooding challenges across the Greater Milwaukee...
The Clean Water Partnership
In March 2015, Prince George’s County, MD, and CIS entered into a “first of its kind” innovative 33-year community-based partnership (CBP), the Clean Water Partnership (CWP). The partnership is the first and largest CBP addressing stormwater management with a...
Los Angeles Sanitation San Fernando Valley Green Streets Program
LA Sanitation and Environment (LASAN), in partnership with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and the California State Coastal Conservancy (SCC), authorized this project to capture and filter stormwater to increase groundwater replenishment in the...
City of Chester Community-based Partnership
CIS's innovative project approach aggregates projects and creates economies of scale through holistic program management, planning, design, and project execution.Project ScopeTotal Development Costs$46 millionTotal Local Impact$149 millionIn 2018, CIS launched the...
Evaluation of Large-scale Use of Green Stormwater Infrastructure as a Stormwater Controls Measure
The Stormwater Authority of the City of Chester (SAC) was founded in January 2016 “to regulate discharges to the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) to protect the City of Chester and Delaware County’s water bodies and groundwater and to safeguard the public...