SFS Projects and Best Practices

The Holiday Neighborhood > Water Quality

Redevelopment of the Holiday Neighborhood also stressed the need to handle water in the most sustainable possible manner.

Water-Management goals included the following:

• To understand the technical aspects of alternative stormwater systems and coordinate those systems with our site design.
  
  
• To the extent possible, capture water on the site to recharge the water table.
  
  
• To have a positive impact on the quality of water as it leaves our site.
  
  
• To understand and accommodate the regulatory influences on alternative systems — to work with the City of Boulder to address their concerns over "something new."
  
  
• To work with the City of Boulder to address their short and long term maintenance concerns.
  
  
• To understand the financial impacts to the project to implement systems above and beyond the letter of the code.

DOWNLOAD
WATER QUALITY
REPORTS:

Univ. of Colorado's
"Comparison of
Conventional and
Low-Impact
Drainage Designs"
(PDF - 2.3 Mb)

Wenk Associates'
"Water Quality Report"
(PDF - 4.9 Mb)

Don Alexander's
Masters Thesis on
"Comparison of
Conventional and
Low-Impact Wet
Weather Designs"
(PDF - 8.4 Mb)

Introductory Letter
from George Watt
(Barrett Studio
Architects) to the EPA
(PDF - 356 Kb)