Type: Capital Improvements - Green & Gray Infrastructure
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Build energy efficiency into housing strategies.
Establish a wetland program to help protect and restore wetlands and riparian areas.
Increase stream meandering to decrease erosive floods.
Plant trees to shade water and reduce water temperatures.
Plant trees in areas upstream of infrastructure to help reduce the damage from flooding.
Stabilize the situation through natural solutions such as establishing more beavers and dams in the headwater streams of the mountains...
Find a way to catch and hold flood waters, for example, by building reservoirs.
Restore/create a wetland outside of Hays to divert water to when it floods.
Restore impacted streams that used to flow and have fish and were for ceremonial purposes.
Install more solar panels and windmills.
Lake 17: Diverting water from a stream to add more water to the reservoir. Currently working with USDA on this....
Building codes/zoning/buffer zoning – Better site planning, better materials to preserve heat and lower use of electricity and other fuels...
