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*Provincial staff
*Provincial staff
===Forming community partnerships===
===Forming Community Partnerships===
[[File:Example.jpg|thumb|Green features in your parking lot provide shade and evaporative cooling. This plays a role in reducing air temperatures on your site and making the walk from a car to your municipal facility a better experience during hot summer days]]
[[File:Example.jpg|thumb|Green features in your parking lot provide shade and evaporative cooling. This plays a role in reducing air temperatures on your site and making the walk from a car to your municipal facility a better experience during hot summer days]]
[[File:Example.jpg|thumb|This dry hydrant is connected to a large subsurface cistern. This water supply can be used in emergency situations to fight fires on site. (Source: Aquafor Beech)]]
[[File:Example.jpg|thumb|This dry hydrant is connected to a large subsurface cistern. This water supply can be used in emergency situations to fight fires on site. (Source: Aquafor Beech)]]
There are also excellent opportunities to integrate rainwater harvesting systems in many municipal facilities. Rainwater harvesting systems have two requirements: an area for catchment of relatively clean runoff, and a nearby demand for water usage. Municipal facilities often have large rooftop areas that produce relatively clean runoff. Installing a cistern either internal to the building or buried adjacent to the building can provide a sustainable source of water for site irrigation needs, including landscaped areas and recreational fields, as well as indoor use for flushing toilets and urinals.
There are also excellent opportunities to integrate rainwater harvesting systems in many municipal facilities. Rainwater harvesting systems have two requirements: an area for catchment of relatively clean runoff, and a nearby demand for water usage. Municipal facilities often have large rooftop areas that produce relatively clean runoff. Installing a cistern either internal to the building or buried adjacent to the building can provide a sustainable source of water for site irrigation needs, including landscaped areas and recreational fields, as well as indoor use for flushing toilets and urinals.
=== Targeting Highly Visible Areas ===
If your LID integration strategy involves highly visible LID practices, consider targeting areas with high-volume pedestrian traffic.
=== Targeting Pollution Prevention Opportunities ===
On some municipal sites, pollution prevention techniques and strategies outlined in Chapter 2 are the best approaches to mitigating the environmental impact of your site. Retrofits of municipal works yards require a different approach than other land uses discussed in this guide. Works yards do not offer substantial opportunities for public interaction. LID retrofits should focus primarily on reducing pollution generated on-site. Fuelling stations, waste storage areas, truck washing stations, sand and salt storage, staging areas, and water conveyance features should be targeted for
pollution prevention.
=== Source Areas ===
The LID option that best fits your site will depend what types of source areas are present. Types of source areas include:
*Active use area
*Passive use area
*Pedestrian walkway
*Internal driveway
*Parking lot
On municipal sites, pollution prevention is often associated with changes to operations and maintenance practices and has not been included in '''Table 4.3.1'''. An aerial photo of a park with each of these source areas accompanies '''Table 4.3.1'''. Options and implementation strategies for a few of these source areas will give you some ideas for your park site.