LID Master Plan for Anacostia River CSO Outfall 006

Client: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)
Grant Date: 2003

DC Pictometry Planning Image

Photo Credit: Pictometry International

The LID Center, in association with the Anacostia Watershed Society, is developing an LID retrofit plan for the District of Columbia Office of Planning. When completed, it will serve as a model process for the District and other jurisdictions in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This is one of three (3) Legacy grants awarded annually by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) as signature projects and is the first Legacy grant awarded to the District.

A significant amount of community outreach is built in to the front end of the project. The goal of the outreach effort is to identify and understand the stormwater management issues that are important to the community. The outreach allows the LID Center to determine which LID improvements the community will support and potentially maintain.

The study also uses advanced technologies such as Pictometry in conjunction with ArcPad and GIS to inventory and analyze retrofit opportunities. A series of guidelines and recommendations on how to institutionalize LID into the planning process and integrate these efforts with other public works construction programs will be included.

More information at http://www.lowimpactdevelopment.org/anacostia/