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Local Habitat for Humanity Announces Partnership with University of Kentucky - Lexington

Western Kentucky University | Center for Environmental Education and Sustainability

WKU-Habitat for Humanity Green Infrastructure Statewide Demonstraton

The CEES has been awarded a 3-year $655,000 grant 319(h) nonpoint source (NPS) pollution grant from the Kentucky Division of Water. WKU will work with the local and state Habitat for Humanity (HFH) and other partners to create an integrated green infrastructure at a 16-acre site owned by Habitat for Humanity called Durbin Estates. The project will demonstrate low impact development (LID) techniques that absorb, filter, and reuse storm and rainwater and can be broadly replicated. Other goals are to provide community education and professional training in NPS pollution and LID techniques, involve residents and the community in the project to build a shared sense of stewardship, and seek green infrastructure policy revisions for KY HFH and the state. WKU students from various departments will participate in the design, testing and development of the green infrastructure as well as the education and outreach efforts; area schools will have opportunities to bring school groups to the site for education. The project is the first phase of a larger plan to develop a mixed income mixed use affordable housing complex that will eventually comprise up to 50 ultra-green housing units, a community center, outdoor amphitheater, walking trails, community gardens, rain gardens, edible landscaping, native species plantings and increased tree cover on the site. “This is a wonderful opportunity to work with WKU and a broad collaboration of community partners to create a community that will model for us a better way to live,” said Rodney Goodman, Executive Director for the Bowling Green Warren County HFH office.