City of Somerville, Massachusetts - File #: 22-0336

• File #: 22-0336
• Version: 1
• Type: Order
• Status: Approved
• File created: 8/11/2022
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 12/14/2023
• Enactment #: 213112
• Title: That the Director of Engineering and the Director of Infrastructure and Asset Management consider implementing a pilot program for Green Infrastructure as a means to reduce issues of flooding in the Gilman Square Neighborhood.
• Sponsors: Beatriz Gomez Mouakad , Jesse Clingan, Jake Wilson

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/14/2023	1	City Council	Work completed
12/4/2023	1	Public Utilities and Public Works Committee	Recommended to be marked work completed
1/3/2023	1	Public Utilities and Public Works Committee	Kept in committee
4/11/2022	1	Flood Forum Special Committee	Kept in committee
2/24/2022	1	City Council	Approved and sent for discussion

Agenda Text

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That the Director of Engineering and the Director of Infrastructure and Asset Management consider implementing a pilot program for Green Infrastructure as a means to reduce issues of flooding in the Gilman Square Neighborhood.

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Official Text

That the Director of Engineering and the Director of Infrastructure and Asset Management consider implementing a pilot program for Green Infrastructure including but not limited to rain gardens or infiltration trenches similar to projects recently implemented with MyRWA grants in the town of Arlington as a means to reduce issues of flooding in the Gilman Square Neighborhood and potentially reduce the the capacity of a proposed million-gallon stormwater and sewage retention tank.

<https://mysticriver.org/news/2020/7/4/arlington-installs-new-rain-gardens-to-reduce-stormwater-pollution>