Project Dates: June 1, 2025 - March 31, 2027
Project Description:
This project evaluates the effectiveness and cost-benefit of stormwater best management practices (BMPs) on Vermont’s transportation network, particularly unpaved roads, to reduce water quality impairment. It focuses on BMPs required by the Municipal Roads General Permit and VTrans standards, assessing their resilience to extreme flooding events like the July 2023 storm. Objectives include compiling databases of BMP implementation costs and flood damage costs from extreme storms between 2023-24, and conducting a life cycle cost-benefit analysis of BMPs in the context of climate variability. The findings will inform stormwater management strategies and may update Vermont’s Transportation Resilience Planning Tool, with guidance from a technical advisory committee.
Poster:
Factsheet Presentation Other
Final Report Archived Documents
Related Symposium Page
Researchers:
Champion(s)/TAC members:
Todd Eaton, Otis Ellms-Munroe, Abe Koffman, Chad McGann, Rita Seto (TRORC)
Implementation:
**Posters, Fact Sheets, Presentation Recordings and Other Materials are prepared for our September Research and Innovation Symposium each year. This page includes the latest materials. Check back in September for updated materials related to this project.