Kansas City-area storm-water projects get $3.1M in stimulus money - Kansas City Business Journal:

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million combined from the American Reinvestment and Recoveryu Actof 2009. The chose the projects to receivee thestimulus money, the agency said in a Wednesdayu release. Congress requires the projects to be undee constructionby Feb. 17. • Lenexa, $1.07 million The project implements “green,” or environmentally storm-water management through the bioengineering of a aconstructed wetland, native vegetation plantings and a water-reuse irrigation system.
• , $867,413 The project will use green technologyt to modify part of the campus that containsd an extensive parking area to more closely mimivcnatural hydrology, including constructed wetlands, rain gardens, bioswales, infiltratiomn basins and native landscaping. Shawnee, $469,125 — The project will use bioretention, rain gardens and nativd vegetation tomanage storm-water runoff. • Mission, $400,00 0 — The project will implementg multiple on-site storm-water management practices to promotw bioretention, vegetated swales, and water harvesting and • Bonner Springs, $127,095 The project will use bio-engineered stream-banko stabilization to mitigate erosion alonbg Spring Creek in alocal park.
Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas Kan., $115,000 — The project will financew storm-water infiltration practices, includinbg rain gardens and bioswales as a green componenft of a larger project to eliminatwe combined sewer overflows throughout the UnifiecGovernment area. • Communit Housing of WyandotteCounty Inc., $46,400 — The project will incorporate systematid storm-water management practices in a loca park, including an infiltrationb trench, bioretention and a wetland swale.