EPA offers webcast: Innovative Financing for Green Infrastructure

Washington, D.C. — On Nov. 4, 2014, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EST, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will conduct a webcast, Innovative Financing for Green Infrastructure, as part of its Green Infrastructure Program 2014 Webcast Series sponsored by the Office of Wastewater Management. This 90-minute webcast will provide an overview of green infrastructure financing strategies and highlight a community that leveraged Clean Water State Revolving Fund resources for a flood mitigation project that provided multiple economic, environmental and social benefits.

Speakers and topics are:

• Jennifer Cotting, Research Associate, Green Infrastructure, Environmental Finance Center, University of Maryland — An Overview of Green Infrastructure Financing
• Deron Muehring, Civil Engineer, City of Dubuque, IA – Partnering to transform a watershed plan into a watershed reality: the Bee Branch Watershed Flood Mitigation Project
• Lori Beary, SRF Coordinator, Iowa Finance Authority — Water Resource Restoration Sponsored Projects

More information and registration is available at https://water.epa.gov/infrastructure/greeninfrastructure/gi_training.cfm.