Urban Watershed Framework Plan for conway, arkansas:A Reconciliation La ndscape

Abstract

The city and the watershed are distinct systems of flow that generate shape and structure across the landscape to maximize their intrinsic objectives. How can city form fix the watershed? The framework plan is a U.S. EPA-funded initiative to mitigate severe water management problems in the sub-watershed incorporating Conway, Arkansas. The subwatershed contains polluted headwater streams exhibiting advanced urban stream syndrome contributing to the decline of Lake Conway downstream.

The framework plan employs green infrastructure incorporating urban rain terrains (based on holding water) and riparian corridors (based on drainage) that deliver ecosystem services. A portfolio of modulated infrastructural retrofits are value-added to conventional infrastructure. The approach provides a novel set of transferable planning tools for urban watersheds, combining a sponge city gradient, a water treatment technologies spectrum, the 17 ecosystem services, and six adaptive infrastructure types. The approach builds a representative cityscape expressive of place-based urban water management.

Keywords

Green Infrastructure / Watershed Plan / Urban Planning / Sponge City / Habitats / Biodiversity

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2016 Higher Education Press