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Projects
Lenexa’s Watershed Division makes improvements to the storm sewer system to prevent flooding and property damage, such as traditional infrastructure repairs of catch basins, pipes (excluding residential rain gutters and downspouts), sewers, drains and culverts, as well as green infrastructure practices like open space, Best Management Practices and stream restorations.
View current Rain to Recreation Capitol Improvement Projects (CIP).
We try to accomplish all of Rain to Recreation program goals in every project:
Flood prevention
The city's efforts in flood prevention involves investigating complaints of existing flooding as well as modeling streams for future, potential flooding due to changing one percent chance of occurring in any given year. If homes are threatened by such a storm, Rain to Recreation work to initiate a capital improvement project to solve the problem. A five-year CIP program is approved by the governing body every year.
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Water quality protection
Rain to Recreation protects restored streams and other natural areas with Best management Practices to also protect water quality. Native plantings, stream buffers, sediment forebays and wetlands and bioretention cells are just a few of the ways the city works to keep water clean, not polluted.
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Habitat restoration
In projects that take place in the streamways or around lakes that we create there is often significant habitat that is impacted. We try to improve habitat through our projects by:
• Leaving the bottom of restored channels natural.
• Providing riffle and pool structures in all restored streams.
• Providing native corridors adjacent to the streams.
• Protecting a habitat zone around lakes to provide future preservation.
• Provide fish structures, such as brush piles and sand beds, in all lakes.
• Provide nesting boxes for a variety of birds on most projects.
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Education and recreation
A vital part of every project is educating the stakeholders, whether its generating buy-in from the beginning, outlining recreational amenities like trails and playgrounds or setting outlines for how to protect streams and other waterways after construction. In every project, Rain to Recreation works to involved local citizens, businesses and other area stakeholders to increase communication and satisfy needs.
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