Glossary

Co-Benefits

A tool’s potential to provide additional improvements to Seattle’s local communities, environment, and economy, which can include:

Compatibility with Other Tools

Identifies structural tools that can be used together to achieve greater benefits.

Important factors for determining how a tool can be best applied to achieve its intended benefits.

Design Considerations

Drainage & Wastewater Primary Benefits

The most direct or likely benefits of a (usually structural) tool for Seattle’s drainage and wastewater system:

Maintenance Considerations

Important factors to account for during routine inspection and/or upkeep.

Non-Structural Tool

A strategy that is implemented without building physical structures, or together with a physical structure. Non-structural tools are grouped into 5 categories: policy improvements, public engagement programs, innovation and research programs, funding and financing approaches, and alternative approaches to delivering CIP.

Potential Benefits

Benefits to SPU in terms of efficiency of project or program implementation. These are additional benefits beyond any direct benefits to the drainage and wastewater systems:

Potential Partners

Organizations or entities that SPU could collaborate with to provide, develop, fund, or implement tools for multi-benefit solutions:

Scale

The possible spatial impact of a tool’s functions and benefits. Some tools have the flexibility to be implemented at individual locations or spread over a wider area.

SPU Roles

Ways that SPU might be involved to provide, develop, fund, or implement tools and solutions:

Structural Tool

A strategy that is physically built to achieve desired benefits, such as bioretention, pipe retrofits, and restoration projects.

Where & When

Suitable opportunities for implementing a tool based on site type and timing of potential work at the site:

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