Stormwater
BMP's
Life-Cycle
Analysis

SEEDS' EDC has been contracted by the University of New Hampshire to continue Barton Kirk, SEEDS enginer, stormwater best management practice evaluations originally developed within the University of Vermont’s Redesigning the American Neighborhood program. This study includes life-cycle environmental impact assessment and cost analysis of two bioretention and porous pavement installations under evaluation at the Stormwater Center. The approach is utilizing a number of advanced emissions inventorying and impact assessment tools including the USEPA’s Mobile 6.2 and NONROAD 2005 emission inventorying models, the USEPA’s Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and Other Environmental Impacts, and Carnegie-Mellon University’s Environmental Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment model.