Mitigating Flood Impacts With Resiliency Parks

Route Fifty: Southwest Park, a 1-acre parcel of land in Hoboken, New Jersey, boasts shade trees, lighted pathways, restrooms, a dog run, a pop-up market zone and a small performance space with multi-level seating—typical amenities for what is meant to be an urban oasis. But the park also contains rain gardens, porous surfaces and an underground network of pipes and tanks that can collect and divert up to 200,000 gallons of stormwater, preventing flooding of the surrounding businesses and residences.

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