Water Quality Fees Board Approves Addition of Tree Canopy Scoring Component to Stormwater Quality Projects Incentive Grants - The Lexington Times
Water Quality Fees Board Approves Addition of Tree Canopy Scoring Component to Stormwater Quality Projects Incentive Grants - The Lexington Times
Lexington, Ky.–Local permaculture designer Nachie Braga, representing Geomancer Permaculture, proposed a new scoring component to the Infrastructure Stormwater Quality Projects Incentive Grants, which was unanimously approved by the Water Quality Fees Board at a special meeting held on Thursday, Feb...
This change happened a few months ago now, but the aspects of the change - incentives for increasing tree cover and the reduction of impervious surfaces in watersheds - are the kind of policy changes we can work to have instituted where each of us are. In addition, including tree planting projects in these programs and giving weight to their inclusion (say, as a scoring component for receiving grants) brings access to historically disadvantaged community groups that don't have the financial power to permit, bid, and build large industrial systems but could organize a community planting day.