CHRONICLE OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE INNOVATION: “You work with the politics of the day, and you have to be savvy. You must read your politicians,” advises Carrie Baron, former Drainage Manager with the City of Surrey
“What are their pressures? Try to make what you need to do fit their pressures,” stated Carrie Baron. “It is about perseverance and trying to work with the system to move good ideas forward.” Three words define Carrie Baron’s engineering career: leadership, innovation and science. She was consistently on the leading edge in advancing green infrastructure and protecting stream health. “The lucky part was that the people who set the groundwork at the lower levels all advanced to senior levels where their duties were bigger than drainage. But they all had that base knowledge.”