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KC Water uses green infrastructure, including rain gardens planted in the parkways between the sidewalk and street, to help attenuate stormwater flows.
KC Water has turned to landscaping to help cope with combined sewer overflows.
The water utility that serves Kansas City, Missouri, operates under a U.S. EPA consent decree to reduce combined sewer overflows and separate sewer overflows.
The decree has been amended three times,...