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New Orleans is no stranger to flooding and extreme rain events. Add to that aging, overworked infrastructure and the neighborhood altering effects climate change can have on a low-lying region and you have an increasingly soggy community. Â鶹´«Ã½¡¯s?Blue & Green Corridor Stormwater Resilience Project?aims help the people of Gentilly to ¡°live with water.¡± This new water management strategy is integrating water as part of an overall community-focused solution. It aims to refocus the public¡¯s perception of water as a hazard to that of a resource. ¡°Living with Water¡± means reimagining the idea of concrete infrastructure through a different lens with a strategy to simultaneously safeguard the area from flooding by introducing natural methods of water control, all the while beautifying the neighborhood and serving as a spark for redevelopment.?

This article profiles how the organization¡ªISeeChange¡ªis working with the residents of Gentilly to record and map water hotspots. This community sourced information is being used by Â鶹´«Ã½ to validate modeling results, and build the right amount of green infrastructure into the Blue & Green plan. It is this consultant-community partnership that is at the heart of our mission¡ªDesign with the Community in Mind.??