Scale and Balance

As we tested ideas to manage flood risk in the neighborhood, we learned some lessons about scale and balance.

Infrastructure was sized to provide benefit to all, and harm no one, while balancing flood risk reduction benefits. This requires infrastructure planning on a neighborhood scale, additional flood storage (like expanded ponds), and careful sizing and planning of pipes, flow paths, and intervening flood storage.

Water was only moved downstream when coupled with additional space for it to go. Additional flood storage created by expanding Weber Pond and the open water area between Lynn Ave and Kipling Ave are foundational features of the concept design.