Database of Implemented Stormwater Controls (DISC)

The data available here in the Database of Implemented Stormwater Controls (DISC) is a product of two manuscripts. 1. Synthesizing Stormwater Infrastructure in United States Cities: Are we speaking the same language? and 2. A cross-city comparison to understand selection of stormwater controls in United States cities. Not all cities included in the analyses presented in those papers allowed data to be shared, so spatial data of stormwater control measures (SCMs) is available via this resource for 17 of the 23 cities. Another city allowed spatial data to be shared directly with other researchers but not publicly, and two additional cities allowed for lists of their SCMs to be shared publicly, but not their spatial data.

The data as we received it from various sources is available and may include data other than SCM data (e.g., pipe network data). There is also a geodatabase available that contains SCMs clipped to city boundaries. This is the data we used in the manuscripts mentioned above. We did not standardize the datasets to contain the same data nor format of data.

We hope that this database of implemented stormwater controls (DISC) will be expanded upon by contributions from other individuals.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1828902.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.