Aurora Bridge Bioswales Tour
Join us on a tour of the award-winning green infrastructure project, the Aurora Bridge Bioswales! The team looked beyond their property boundary to partner with State and City municipalities to install rain gardens that now collectively clean almost 2 million gallons of runoff from the Aurora Bridge annually.
Members of the design team from Weber Thompson and KPFF, will discuss project details during a tour of the 3 project phases that were specifically designed to clean the toxic roadway runoff for the benefit of our native salmon population, orcas, and the health of our overall community. Seattle Public Utilities will highlight incentive programs to encourage homeowners, community groups and new developments to join in on a city-wide effort to protect our waterways.
Speakers:
Clean water advocate Rachael Meyer is a leading voice in the Green Stormwater Infrastructure movement and has been at the forefront of developing partnerships between private developers and public utility departments. Deeply committed to addressing and mitigating the impacts of polluted stormwater on the environment, her work includes integration of sustainable landscapes, green infrastructure, and stormwater reclamation systems on private developments in the Pacific Northwest. Rachael’s genuine commitment to sustainability is cemented as Weber Thompson’s Director of Sustainability, where she oversees the firm’s sustainability initiatives focusing on health and wellbeing, carbon reduction, and stormwater management. As a Landscape Architect in this role, she sets a precedent among architecture firms, underscoring the importance of integrated design to address climate change.
Jeremy S. Febus is a Principal at KPFF in Seattle, an engineering firm that works in civil and structural engineering while improving regional transportation infrastructure. With over 25 years of experience, Jeremy Febus has worked extensively with public institutions and agencies, private landowners, real estate professionals, and land developers in the study, entitlement, and development of complex properties throughout the Puget Sound region. Jeremy has a particular passion for green stormwater infrastructure and restorative infrastructure not just “doing better” going forward but unwinding and correcting past infrastructure and especially stormwater mistakes wherever we can.
Nicole Kistler has 25 years of experience in community building, with a passion for collaborative leadership and creative placekeeping. She founded Nicole Kistler Studio, LLC in 2004 to pursue public art and design projects that could spark imagination and fundamentally shift the expectations people had for the urban landscape to one in harmony with natural systems. She creates work for municipalities, arts exhibitions, and infrastructure projects, and been named one of Seattle's Most Influential People by Seattle Magazine in 2015. Now at Seattle Public Utilities, Nicole brings her enthusiasm for systems change to the Beyond Code Partnership Program encouraging developers to think bigger as they consider stormwater design on their site. She aims to create healthy places we can all enjoy together.
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