Welcome to the Episode 2 of The Watercourse! My guest today is Chelsea Panos (twitter.com/chelsea_panos), an expert on the stormwater impacts of infill development. What is infill development? It’s a nationwide trend of creating more housing in a smaller footprint, so that more people can live closer to cities. Chelsea explains how you might have seen old neighborhoods get converted from small, single family homes with big yards into high density apartment units. What do those changes mean for stormwater management? We’re here to find out! In this interview from September 2019, Chelsea teaches me about how infill development affects stormwater runoff and what the city and developers can do to mitigate negative impacts.

*Pre-listening resources*
Stormwater Primer: youtu.be/LMq6FYiF1mo
Bioretention Primer: youtu.be/LiNd2ZaYS2k
Infill Development Article (NY Times): nyti.ms/2ZxM6eN
Climate Change and Stormwater (Medium): bit.ly/3d0K0YY

*Post-listening resources*
doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15376-9
doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2020.1754625

Also check out Panos et al. (2018). “High-Resolution Modeling of Infill Development Impact on Stormwater Dynamics in Denver, Colorado”. ascelibrary.org/doi/full/10.1061/JSWBAY.0000863

Episode photo: Extreme rain event on Colorado School of Mines campus 9/12/2013. The storm was between a 100- and a 1,000-year event along much of the Colorado Front Range. Here the sidewalk is flowing like a stream! Photo Credit: Skuyler Herzog.

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