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Below are various member accomplishments through regional collaboration.
American Rivers -collaborated with PAG, the City of Tucson, Pima County, and WMG to create the GI Resource Library. The report is broken down into three sections: Integrating Green Infrastructure into Project Planning, Funding Green Infrastructure as Part of Transportation Projects, and Green Infrastructure Design, Implementation, and Maintenance for Arid Landscape Transportation Projects. It contains stepwise checklists for integrating green infrastructure into roadway projects, as well as design and maintenance checklists. An annotated bibliography of design guides provides links to technical standards developed by Southwestern cities. (Jeff Odefey)
Bureau of Reclamation (Deborah Tosline)
The Community Food Bank (Raye Winch)
The EPA website provides GI-related water quality management resources.
JE Fuller (Jon Elslager)
NV4... (Mark Murphy)
Pima County
Regional Flood Control District. On their LID Website, you will find many products of the collaboration including City/County Policy Guides, Manuals, Case Studies, several Workshops, and cost-benefits studies. (previously Evan Canfield, Sandy Buldoc, and Ann Moynihan, and now Jacob Prietto)
Department of Environmental Quality (Marie Light)
Pima Association of Governments. On the PAG GI Webpage, you will find Regional Council Resolutions, an interactive mapping tool, and outreach that resulted from LID collaboration. (Mead Mier, and with previous support from Josh Pope)
The Santa Cruz Watershed Collaborative is a multi-agency effort that includes a One Water Working Group which our group coordinates with closely. (Mead Mier and Catlow Shipek)
Tucson Audubon
Tucson Clean and Beautiful. TCB runs neighborhood and mini GI grant programs. Their adopt-site programs are key for GI maintenance in our region and they have collaborated with LID Working Group members to incorporate more stormwater harvesting guidance. TCB runs Trees for Tucson and provides community assistance on tree planting efforts. (Katie Gannon )
City of Tucson
Storm 2 Shade (Blue Baldwin)
Tucson Water (Irene Ogata, Candice Rupprecht)
Department of Transportation and Mobility- Various members of the LID Working Group provided advisement on the City of Tucson Draft Street Design Guide (Patrick Hartley)
Mayor's Office - One Million Trees campaign (Nicole Gillette)
Sonoran Institute
Sustainable Tucson (Jana Segal)
University of Arizona... Water Resources Research Center, Pima County Extension Office, GI Courses, (Grant McCormick, Karen Hanshaw, Courtney Crosson, Andrea Gerlak, Neha Gupta, the late Tom Meixner, Ladd Keith, Adriana Zungia and more)
Watershed Management Group (Catlow Shipek)
Wheat Design Group (Laura Meilcarek)
West (Kieran Sikdar)
WLB Group (John Wise)
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