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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Water Environ Res. 2020 Jul 20;92(12):2178–2192. doi: 10.1002/wer.1302

Table 2.

Projected Costs for Current and Future Adapted Stormwater Management Approaches

Location Climate
Scenario
Stormwater
Management
Approach
Current Cost (106
$/impervious acre)
Adaptation Cost
Increase (106 $/
impervious acre)
Percent
Increase in
Cost
Southeast GCM High Conventional 0.768 0.495 64%
GCM High GI with Gray 1.282 0.162 13%
Arid Southwest GCM High Conventional 0.599 0.255 43%
GCM High GI Only 0.498 0.293 59%
Pacific Northwest GCM High GI Only 0.624 0.624 100%
Mid-Atlantic GCM High Conventional 0.408 0.497 122%
Plus 10% 0.207 51%
Plus 20% 0.374 92%
GCM High GI with Gray 0.396 0.538 136%
Plus 10% 0.084 21%
Plus 20% 0.164 41%
GCM High Conventional with Distributed GI 0.408 0.812 199%
Plus 10% 0.125 30%
Plus 20% 0.273 67%
Midwest GCM Medium Conventional 0.212 0.413 195%
GCM High 0.524 248%
Plus 10% 0.411 194%
Plus 20% 0.766 362%
GCM Medium GI with Gray 0.341 0.171 50%
GCM High 0.688 201%
Plus 10% 0.222 65%
Plus 20% 0.444 130%
GCM Medium GI Only 0.591 0.228 39%
GCM High 0.551 93%
Plus 10% 0.295 50%
Plus 20% 0.598 101%
GCM Medium Conventional with Distributed GI 0.212 0.114 54%
GCM High 0.355 168%
Plus 10% 0.109 52%
Plus 20% 0.191 90%