Rome 6
the federal government supported home ownership, but was
concerned to reduce the environmental cost
urban growth makes floods more frequent--a topic that needed
research--Greenville
example
storm drainage issues:
- how well do lawns absorb water? depends
on many things
- compaction of the soil
- whether it is already saturated by a septic
tank
Design to reduce flooding
- stormwater basins
- direct the water to a natural or artificial pond or lake,
but these then filled up with silt
Controlling erosion
- conservation service studied erosion from
construction sites in the late 1950s
- the US Geological Survey picked up the research starting
in 1959
- silt was defined as a form of water pollution because it
can kill fish
- the Soil Conservation Service promoted new techniques to
builders
- 1972 federal Water Pollution Control act required states
to develop regulation
- Comprehensive planning: Greenville
Wildlife:
- How to plan open space for greatest benefit to wildlife
- diversity of habitat and size of open space parcels
- again the government did research useful to the activists
scattered work that the environmental movement pulled
together