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% |