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APA Water + Planning Connect | September 11, 2018

Innovative One Water Case Studies

Transforming Barriers + Getting Started

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Shaping a more equitable, sustainable and prosperous greater Chicago region

Immediate and long-term solutions

Connect region’s assets

Partnerships with governments,

communities and business

Clean

Affordable

Safe

Enough

Sustainable

Well-managed

Equitable

Resilient

Planning + Water Interfaces

What is One Water?• The One Water approach considers the urban water cycle as a single

integrated system, in which all urban water flows are recognized as potential resources, and the interconnectedness …is optimized, and their combined impact…recognized. (Howe and Mukheibir 2015)

• All around the country we are seeing silo-busting examples of integrated and inclusive approaches to water resource management. These approaches exemplify the view that all water has value and should be managed in a sustainable, inclusive, integrated way. We call this perspective One Water. (US Water Alliance 2016)

• One Water is an implementation approach to managing water resources to achieve long‐term resilience and reliability, balancing both community and ecosystem needs. (Paulson, Broley, and Stephens 2017)

• One water is a management strategy that emphasizes the science and hydrology of all waters being interconnected…Eliminating disconnected and silo management provides a pathway to sustainable water decision‐making. (Cesanek 2018)

One Water approaches:

From: Pathways to One Water, A Guide for Institutional Innovation. 2015. C. Howe and P. Mukheibir. Water Environment Research Foundation.

From: Pathways to One Water, A Guide for Institutional Innovation. 2015. C. Howe and P. Mukheibir. Water Environment Research Foundation.

Key ingredients:

The Issues

Why is One Water so important today?

Some groundwater sources may be

unusable in 5-10 years.

Enough?

Clean?Clean?

About 1.3 Willis Towers of water are

lost each week in Northeastern Illinois

due to leaks.

Safe?

Northeastern Illinois has more than 400 community water supply

systems in operation.

Fragmented

Climate Change

The Solutions

One Water initiative examples

Sensible Salting

• Anti-icing brine solution used before snow reduces road salt use

• Application innovation on trucks

• Service sharing between 2 municipalities—1 produces solution, 1 applies

• Reduced salt use 30-50% ($75-150K in annual savings, including staff needs + overtime)

• Reduced water pollution!

Pharmaceutical Drop-off

• Unused pharmaceutical drop-off program

• Partnership between City of Chicago and its Public Health and Police Departments

• Secure drop-offs at police stations

• City of Chicago disposes properly

• Reduced water pollution!

Conserve Water + Reduce Flooding

• New storm sewer + stormwater chamber under municipal park

• Partnership between Northbrook, IL, regional wastewater district, Park District + School District

• 7.5 million gallon chamber includes rainwater harvesting system

• Park uses rainwater to irrigate onsite while reducing chronic area flooding!

Tackling Flooding Via Collaboration

• 40+ agencies in Collaborative

• Meets once a month since 2014

• Has work plan + work groups

• Accomplishments include:• New tools + resources• Workshops + trainings• Funding streams opened• Peer-reviewed work

• Collaboration across municipal, agency, regulatory and NGOs!

Demand Management = $ Savings• Aurora, IL approved water

conservation ordinance in 2006

• Water demand has dropped by 20 gallons, per person, per day

• Capital improvement projects have been deferred indefinitely

• The ordinance has saved taxpayers an estimate $7.5M over the past 10 years

• Reducing demand saves water + taxpayer money!

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THANK YOU.

Danielle Gallet

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@DGalletH2O

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