{"id":5921,"date":"2021-10-05T19:56:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T00:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewn.erdc.dren.mil\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2021-10-06T10:41:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T15:41:33","slug":"ap-article-explores-usace-interest-in-natural-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewn.erdc.dren.mil\/ap-article-explores-usace-interest-in-natural-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Associated Press Article Explores USACE Interest in Natural Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cWe need to re-envision what infrastructure looks like.\u201d<\/p>Dr. Todd Bridges, National Lead, Engineering With Nature<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

An article released by the Associated Press discusses the Corps of Engineers heightened interest in nature-based solutions through the leadership of the Engineering With Nature Initiative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article mentions the challenges to implementing nature-based solutions but also the pieces coming together to allow for change including WRDA 2020, the publication of the International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management<\/a>, research on benefits of natural features conducted by ERDC, University of California, Santa Cruz, The Nature Conservancy and the Wildlife Conservation Society, and a growing need for improved solutions as increasingly frequent storms test the limits of traditional infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The AP reporter spent time with Dr. Bridges, EWN Lead, and David Crane, an environmental resource specialist with the Army Corps of Engineers, and an EWN Practice Lead<\/a>. They toured an area that flooded in 2019 a few miles south of Rock Port, Missouri where the Corps recently completed a levee setback. Dr. Bridges also visited the L-536 levee setback project was visited as a part of this summer\u2019s EWN on the Road series, Stop #6<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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