Town of View Royal – Island Highway Improvement Project will improve conditions in Portage Inlet
In November 2007, the Capital Regional District hosted a full-day workshop titled Bio/Infiltration: Tools for Rainwater Management. Organized under the umbrella of the Stormwater, Harbours and Watersheds Program, the workshop emphasis was on municipal implementation, particularly funding, bylaws and other tools available to municipalities to work towards innovative rainwater management.
The workshop featured case studies from both sides of the Georgia Basin, thereby facilitating a sharing of experiences. To read the complete story, click on Rainwater Management in the Georgia Basin: Capital Regional District workshop celebrates on-the-ground successes.
Town of View Royal – Island Highway Improvement Project
View Royal’s Highway Improvement Project will provide more travel choices that will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other vehicle emissions. The project also uses innovative technology to treat the stormater/rainwater runoff, improving the natural habitat of Portage Inlet and Esquimalt Harbour.
Emmet McCusker, Director of Engineering for the Town of View Royal, and Rob Warren, consulting engineer, described how bioswales and rain gardens have been incorporated in the roadway re-design to capture road runoff at the sources, and remove most of the contaminants prior to discharging the runoff into the marine environment.
To download a copy of their presentation, click on this link to Town of View Royal – Island Highway Improvement Project.
Posted August 2008
Originally posted on the Green Infrastructure Community-of-Interest in December 2007