While the benefits of green infrastructure are becoming more widely accepted, communities often encounter challenges—like public support funding and concerns about maintenance and community impacts—that limit widespread implementation. However, Milton has been implementing green infrastructure for years and now considers this part of their public works program. Their efforts not only set out to restore water quality in the Unquity watershed, which currently receives high levels of bacteria, nutrients, and total suspended soils (TSS) inputs from stormwater runoff, but also provides co-benefits such as restoration of urban tree canopy, public recreation and education, climate resilience, and enhancement of their community’s character.

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