Introducing a new Flood Adaptation Guide for Historic Villages
This spring the WRC asked students of the Conway School Graduate Program in Sustainable Landscape Planning & Design to develop a guide to inform flood adaptation strategies for historic villages. This guide, titled Imagining Flood-Adapted Futures in the Windham Region, contains strategies for infill development in village locations least prone to flooding and/or channel migration, as well as growing the village up and away from flood risks.
The guide they created provides an overview of risks and opportunities to be considered, and provides examples using the historic villages of Grafton, Newfane, and Wardsboro as pilot communities. This guide is intended for use by…everyone!…but particularly with planning commissions, selectboards, housing committees, and climate adaptation/hazard mitigation committees in mind.
You can find the guide here, and on WRC’s Documents page under “Other Topics.”