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When it comes to stormwater planning, communities often struggle with the gray vs. green infrastructure question. Aligning level of service and sustainability goals with current funding, and then balancing the short and long-term impacts can be a difficult puzzle. The CLASIC online stormwater planning tool was developed to help communities determine the extent and type of green, gray or gray-green hybrid stormwater control measures that are right for the development or redevelopment project area.

Vilander Bluff Overlook at Onondaga State Park in Bourbon, MO

In the Lower Meramec Watershed in East-Central Missouri, civic leaders and city staff were facing difficult decisions about how to prevent flooding, loss of life, decreased property values and other community losses while continuing to respect quality of life, property rights and community cohesiveness.