Replace the majority of the impervious pavement and gravel on campus with green areas. Green spaces are not only aesthetically more pleasing to look at, but they can provide wildlife habitat, provide shade and reduce heat island effect, and help to treat, store, and infiltrate stormwater. Adding more canopy trees to the campus also brought this site back to its historic roots.

“Green stormwater infrastructure is an approach to water management that protects, restores, or mimics the natural water cycle. It incorporates both the natural environment and engineered systems to provide clean water, conserve ecosystem values and functions, and provide many benefits to people and wildlife” (American Rivers). The project set out to use of many different types of GSI on site to serve as an example to Town residents and others on how stormwater management can be implemented in a variety of ways.

LID is a “management approach and set of practices that can reduce runoff and pollutant loadings by managing runoff as close to its source(s) as possible. LID includes overall site design approaches (such as holistic design and integrated management practices) and individual small-scale stormwater management practices that promote the use of natural systems for infiltration, evapotranspiration and the harvesting and use of rainwater” (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). LID recognizes stormwater as a resource and capitalizes on the co-benefits of managing it close to its source, including recreational, habitat, and air quality benefits.

This aerial image was taken of the Town Hall Campus site in 2021. Check out all that pavement (impervious cover) on the site!

This rendering shows what the campus will look like when the project is complete. Check back at this website to see more photos of the site post-construction.