ARRA CCD Urban Stormwater Management

Professional Award

K-State Ecoreps Impact Award

Contract Value

approx. $650,000 + $110,000 cost share

Grant for Green Infrastructure

On behalf of and while employed at KSU, Dea Brokesh received $583,000 in grant funds through the Kansas Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund for design and construction of innovative green infrastructure technologies.

These components include:

• Porous paving technologies at 34 car parking and sidewalks
• Bioretention cells temporarily hold stormwater, reduce runoff, and provide aquifer recharge
• Water harvesting in 26,000 gallon underground cistern
• Reuse of rain water as landscape irrigation
• Woodland restoration

Innovative Stormwater Management

The project mitigates stormwater runoff on an 8-acre site. It showcases multiple green infrastructure technologies first of their kind to be installed in a multi-county area. Brokesh and staff prepared design and construction documents for the landscape/ irrigation portions of the work, provided concept plans and specifications for green infrastructure components, administered consultant and contractor contracts, and prepared and provided State and Federal agency reports.