Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County’s Green Infrastructure Master Plan is now available on Metro Water Services’ website. The plan was prepared by amec, Hawkins Partners, Urban Blueprint, and the Low Impact Development Center. The plan includes the following:
- Green Infrastructure Practice – Overview of Green Infrastructure and descriptions of various practices.
- Technical Analysis of Green Infrastructure – Analysis of the CSS area with respect to green roofs, three kinds of infiltration practices, tree planting, and rainfall harvesting (cisterns and rain barrels) and its potential impacts on the CSS.
- Green Infrastructure Projects – Brief overview of the preliminary design concepts for six projects.
- Green Infrastructure Incentives and Financing – Summary of various potentially applicable incentive practices that have been applied in other cities to encourage the use of Green Infrastructure.
Click here to download the entire plan in PDF format
Green Infrastructure Digest 
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