Install green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) along portions of the Little Calumet and/or the southernmost Lower Des Plaines watershed with a minimum design retention capacity of 100,000 gallons volume of runoff captured. Project will demonstrate how stormwater credit trading programs can be used to provide a sustaining source of construction capital to support future construction and maintenance of GSI projects.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
Chi-Cal Rivers Fund
Project Title: Leveraging Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) to Finance Construction and Maintenance of Future GSI through StormStore
Organization:
The Nature Conservancy
Project ID:
2005.20.070489
Description:
Award Amount:
$247000.00
Location:
Little Calumet watershed planning area and southernmost portion of the Lower Des Plaines planning area in Cook County, Illinois