SCC-CIVIC-FA Track A: Assessing the Performance of Green Stormwater Infrastructure for Climate Adaptation and Coastal Resilience in the City of Cape Canaveral, Florida

SCC-CIVIC-FA 轨道 A：评估佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角市绿色雨水基础设施在气候适应和沿海复原力方面的绩效

• 批准号: 2321162
• 负责人: Jason Evans
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Stetson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2321162&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; FA; Track; Assessing

Like many coastal communities, the City of Cape Canaveral, Florida is confronted with the stressors of coastal flooding and harmful algal blooms (HABs) in nearshore waters. Antiquated infrastructure in the built environment and accelerating climate change are together amplifying these threats, with deleterious impacts to public safety, ecosystem health, and private property. The Cape Canaveral municipal government – in collaboration with its academic and community partners – has identified green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) based interventions as one of its primary strategies for climate and water quality mitigation. This Smart and Connected Communities Civic Innovation Challenge Full Award (SCC-CIVIC-FA) project will establish a pilot GSI bioswale and associated hydrologic monitoring system at Veterans Memorial Park in the City of Cape Canaveral. Performance data from this pilot will directly used to guide design, implementation, and monitoring protocols within subsequent GSI projects in Cape Canaveral and other similarly situated coastal communities in the Indian River Lagoon watershed of eastern Florida. This includes Cape Canaveral’s recent development of an ambitious 25-year master plan for GSI interventions within its Presidential Streets neighborhood, a hotspot for recent stormwater flooding events. GSI refers to a set of stormwater management practices that are designed to maintain, restore, and/or mimic pre-development hydrologic conditions within built environments. These practices are widely promoted as a tool for reducing flood risk, improving water quality, and creating valuable green space amenities. However, GSI has not yet been adopted at scale in much of the U.S., including areas – like much of coastal Florida – where existing stormwater infrastructure systems are largely maladapted to climate change-driven flood risks and often identified as a primary pollutant load source. A relative lack of monitoring and performance data, ambiguous permitting design standards, and misunderstood maintenance protocols are all commonly cited as key barriers to the wider application of GSI. To help overcome these barriers, Cape Canaveral is motivated to serve as a partner and host for this pilot project that will objectively test the field performance of GSI interventions for mitigating stormwater-based flooding and non-point nutrient load issues. Project results are anticipated to influence broader municipal consideration and adoption of suitable GSI interventions within the watershed of the highly impaired Indian River Lagoon, home to 1.6 million people and often described as the most biodiverse estuary in North America.The CIVIC Innovation Challenge is a collaboration with Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, and the National Science FoundationThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

与许多沿海社区一样，佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角市面临着沿海洪水和近岸水域有害藻华 (HAB) 的压力，建筑环境中陈旧的基础设施和加速的气候变化共同加剧了这些威胁，并产生有害影响。卡纳维拉尔角市政府与学术界和社区合作伙伴合作，已将基于绿色雨水基础设施 (GSI) 的干预措施确定为气候和水质的主要战略之一。该智能互联社区公民创新挑战全额奖 (SCC-CIVIC-FA) 项目将在卡纳维拉尔角市退伍军人纪念公园建立一个试点 GSI 生物沼泽和相关水文监测系统，该试点的绩效数据将直接使用。指导卡纳维拉尔角和佛罗里达州东部印第安河泻湖流域其他类似沿海社区后续 GSI 项目的实施设计、选址和监测协议，其中包括卡纳维拉尔角最近开发的雄心勃勃的项目。总统街附近的 GSI 干预措施 25 年总体规划是最近暴雨洪水事件的热点地区，GSI 是指一套旨在维持、恢复和/或模拟开发前建成的水文条件的雨水管理实践。这些做法被广泛推广为降低洪水风险、改善水质和创造有价值的绿色空间设施的工具，但 GSI 尚未在美国大部分地区（包括佛罗里达州沿海地区）大规模采用。 – 现有的雨水基础设施系统在很大程度上不适应气候变化驱动的洪水风险，通常被认为是主要的污染物负荷源。相对缺乏监测和性能数据、模糊的许可设计标准以及被误解的维护协议都被普遍认为是阻碍雨水基础设施建设的主要障碍。为了帮助克服这些障碍，卡纳维拉尔角有动力成为该试点项目的合作伙伴和主办方，该项目将客观地测试 GSI 干预措施在减轻雨水洪水和非点源性洪水方面的现场表现。预计项目结果将影响更广泛的市政考虑和在受损的印第安河泻湖流域内采取适当的 GSI 干预措施，该泻湖居住着 160 万人，通常被称为北美生物多样性最丰富的河口。挑战赛是与能源部、国土安全部和国家科学基金会的合作。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。