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Application of Stormwater Management Techniques for Mitigation and Education at the Stockbridge School Agricultural Learning Center

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dc.contributor.advisorMichael Davidsohn, MCLP, Chair Elizabeth Thompson, RLA, Member Elisabeth Hamin, PhD, Department Chair
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Samantha R
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.date2023-09-23T15:30:49.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T18:01:15Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T18:01:15Z
dc.date.issued2014-04-01
dc.description.abstractThe Stockbridge School Agricultural Learning Center (SSALC) will be a 40-acre hands-on agricultural learning laboratory for students, staff, visitors, and neighbors. Still in its planning phases, the Center will be located on what is currently a hay field just north of UMass Amherst campus. A conceptual master plan was created in 2013 that is being used for fundraising as well as planning for agricultural demonstration plots and architectural hubs. Improperly managed agricultural landscapes are known as one of the biggest threats to water quality in the United States. As a model of forward thinking agricultural practices, properly managed stormwater on the SSALC site should be as paramount as the primary demonstration agricultural plots. Currently, however, the relationship between agriculture and stormwater is not represented in existing planning documents. The SSALC project presents a unique opportunity to merge sustainable agricultural practices with sustainable stormwater management practices in what will be a public and heavily utilized landscape. This project ultimately reintroduces stormwater management to the planning process of the SSALC so that as the Center becomes established, stormwater management will not be a reaction to development in the landscape but an integral aesthetic, functional, and educational aspect of the visitor, student, and staff experience.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/32114
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=larp_ms_projects&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectAgricultural Learning Center Project
dc.subjectWatersheds
dc.subjectHydrological Land Use
dc.subjectStormwater
dc.subjectWetlands
dc.subjectFarming
dc.subjectMass Aggie
dc.subjectEnvironmental Education
dc.subjectEnvironmental Design
dc.subjectEnvironmental Education
dc.subjectEnvironmental Engineering
dc.subjectLandscape Architecture
dc.subjectNatural Resources Management and Policy
dc.subjectOther Civil and Environmental Engineering
dc.subjectOther Environmental Sciences
dc.subjectUrban, Community and Regional Planning
dc.subjectWater Resource Management
dc.titleApplication of Stormwater Management Techniques for Mitigation and Education at the Stockbridge School Agricultural Learning Center
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