Organization: State of Deleware

Year of publication: 2016

Type of green infrastructure: all

Type of benefit(s): all

Summary: The Deleware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) provides an introduction to GI, including an overview of benefits, and detailed descriptions of GI solutions, broken into two categories: site scale and landscape scale.

Green infrastructure practices at the "site scale" include a wide variety of small construction designs that are generally used in landscaping and site development around or adjacent to existing structures, including buildings, roads, and parking lots. Some practices, such as riparian buffers and living shorelines, are suited for sites along waterways.

Green infrastructure at the "landscape scale" includes the protection, restoration and enhancement of large, natural systems such as wetlands, forests, shorelines, and floodplains. Wetland and forest habitats provide many benefits by filtering and storing surface runoff, providing important wildlife habitat, and storing carbon.

Link: Green_Infra_Primer2016_FINAL web version.pdf 4 MB