Minnesota Sea Grant’s One Block project is helping people in vulnerable Great Lakes communities improve their resilience to the effects of flooding through equitable and inclusive stormwater management.

Changing precipitation patterns are affecting communities. People in communities across the Great Lakes are experiencing water challenges including flooding and damage to homes, businesses, and community infrastructure and degraded water quality of streams and lakes.

The sediment traps, forebays, infiltration basins, rock inlets and other practices (shown in the June 2022 photo at the top of the page) manage stormwater runoff from this parking lot adjacent to Bassett Creek in Minneapolis. They slow the runoff by controlling its release and promoting infiltration into the soil and minimize the pollutants reaching the creek.