{"id":7136,"date":"2015-02-13T11:25:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unrbep.org\/?p=7136"},"modified":"2015-02-13T11:25:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:25:34","slug":"climate-action-plan-toolkit-epa-releases-stormwater-climate-change-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/climate-action-plan-toolkit-epa-releases-stormwater-climate-change-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Action Plan Toolkit: EPA Releases Stormwater Climate Change Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted: February 13, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n

Stormwater Management Model tool helps communities prepare for climate change impacts<\/em><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON<\/strong> \u2013 As part of President Obama\u2019s Climate Action Plan Virtual Climate Resilience Toolkit<\/a>, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of the Climate Adjustment Tool for EPA\u2019s Stormwater Management Model \u2013 a widely-used, downloadable online stormwater simulation model. The Climate Adjustment Tool allows engineers and planners to evaluate the performance of water infrastructure while considering future climate change projections, such as more frequent high-intensity storms and changes in evaporation rates of seasonal precipitation, to determine the benefits of resiliency decisions to reduce local economic burden and protect communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cClimate change means increased risks to our health, our economy, and our environment,\u201d said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. \u201cBut with the President\u2019s Climate Action Plan, the agency is taking action to advance science-based technology, such as the addition of the Climate Adjustment Tool, to help state and local planners combat the impacts of climate change, especially significant economic burden from severe weather, and protect communities through sustainability and resiliency measures.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new tool will enable users to add climate projections based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u2019s climate change scenarios to existing simulations to determine the quality of water traveling through traditional infrastructure – a system of gutters, storm drains, pipes, channels, collection tanks and storage devices. The tool also has the ability to model the performance of green infrastructure practices, including permeable pavement, rain gardens, and green roofs. Engineers and planners are able to accurately represent any combination of traditional and green infrastructure practices within an area to determine their effectiveness in managing stormwater and combined sewer overflows in their community.<\/p>\n

Stormwater runoff is a major environmental problem resulting in flooding, erosion, and contaminated waters.\u00a0 Every year billions of gallons of raw sewage, trash, household chemicals, fertilizers, and urban runoff flow into our streams, rivers and lakes. Polluted stormwater runoff can adversely affect plants, animals, and people.<\/p>\n

The Climate Adjustment Tool, in addition to other tools in the President\u2019s Climate Action Plan Virtual Climate Resilience Toolkit<\/a>, can help users make planning, analysis, and design decisions that will guard against the impacts of climate change. Using these tools to choose the best adaptation options is an innovative and efficient way to promote healthy waters and support more sustainable communities. View the Virtual Climate Resilience Toolkit here: http:\/\/toolkit.climate.gov\/tools<\/a><\/p>\n

EPA\u2019s Stormwater Management Model is used throughout the world for stormwater runoff reduction planning, analysis and design of combined and sanitary sewers, and other drainage systems.\u00a0 Originally released decades ago, SWMM is now used in thousands of communities throughout the world, including as the core modeling engine in cities such as Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Seattle.<\/p>\n

To assist community planners and managers in determining resiliency and sustainability actions that will help protect against extreme weather and reduce the local economic burden after a natural disaster, EPA has developed additional tools, including:<\/p>\n

EPA\u2019s Stormwater Calculator- <\/strong>a tool that can be used by homeowners, landscapers, and developers to estimate the amount of rainwater and frequency of runoff on a specific site based on local soil conditions, land cover, historic rainfall records, and climate change scenarios.<\/p>\n

For more information on the complementary National Stormwater Calculator, visit:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www2.epa.gov\/water-research\/national-stormwater-calculator<\/a><\/p>\n

EPA\u2019s Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT)- <\/strong>a tool that assists drinking water and wastewater utility owners and operators understand potential climate change threats and assess the related risks. For more information on the Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool, visit:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/water.epa.gov\/infrastructure\/watersecurity\/climate\/creat.cfm<\/a>
\nFor additional information about the Stormwater Management Model and Climate Adjustment Tool, visit<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www2.epa.gov\/water-research\/storm-water-management-model-swmm<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information about the President\u2019s Climate Action Plan, visit
\nhttp:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/image\/president27sclimateactionplan.pdf<\/a>
\nFor more information on EPA\u2019s Green Infrastructure research, visit
\nhttp:\/\/water.epa.gov\/infrastructure\/greeninfrastructure\/index.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted: February 13, 2015 Stormwater Management Model tool helps communities prepare for climate change impacts WASHINGTON \u2013 As part of President Obama\u2019s Climate Action Plan Virtual Climate Resilience Toolkit, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of the Climate Adjustment Tool for EPA\u2019s Stormwater Management Model \u2013 a widely-used, downloadable online stormwater simulation … Continue reading Climate Action Plan Toolkit: EPA Releases Stormwater Climate Change Tool<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[390,85,62,389,388,393,391,392,387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7137,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions\/7137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}