Rain Garden Maintenance Update

We appreciate your patience as we sort out rain garden maintenance. A contract issue caused an unexpected delay, but we’re nearly ready to restart routine maintenance with a new plan and team in place! We’re dedicated to keeping Blueprint rain gardens in great shape and look forward to providing quicker, more efficient maintenance moving forward.

Questions? Reach us at blueprint@columbus.gov or 614-645-1253. Please remember not to maintain the rain gardens yourself, as they’re connected to the city’s storm sewer system.

Thanks for being great partners in keeping our streams clean and our neighborhoods green!

Clean Streams. Stronger Neighborhoods.

Blueprint Columbus is an innovative way of eliminating sanitary sewer overflows while also investing in our neighborhoods and our local economy. Blueprint solves the problem of sanitary sewer overflows at the source by fixing damaged and deteriorating pipes, and redirecting stormwater to the street where pollutants can be filtered out by green infrastructure before flowing to our rivers and streams.

99%

reduction in sanitary sewer overflows resulting from heavy rain events

3.7

million gallons less sewage in our rivers and streams annually

20%

reduction of total suspended solids from neighborhood stormwater discharges

Blueprint Columbus is about more than just improving sewer infrastructure. With a focus on green infrastructure, Blueprint develops solutions to enhance our neighborhoods. The creation of green spaces and sustainable infrastructure has multiple demonstrated benefits for a community’s health, environment, and economy. Blueprint Columbus is a community-driven improvement project, designed to meet the unique needs of each neighborhood.

Blueprint’s Outlook

Blueprint Columbus will be implemented in 21 neighborhoods throughout Columbus over the next 30 years.

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The Four Pillars of the Blueprint Columbus Project

The Four Pillars of Blueprint work together to solve sewer overflows and improve our environment.

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Green Infrastructure

Lateral Lining

Roof Water Redirection

Sump Pumps

Neighborhood Updates

Follow the plans and construction in your neck of the woods by checking out our Neighborhood Updates page! We have individual pages for all the areas that have improvement projects under way, and we’ll be adding new pages as projects enter the planning process. You can also use our interactive map to figure out where your neighborhood stands at the moment.

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About Blueprint Columbus

The City of Columbus devised Blueprint Columbus as a means of improving stormwater discharges, eliminating sanitary sewer overflows and reducing basement backups. It’s all designed with the goal of being more sustainable, more innovative and better for the community. You can read all about the reasons we chose this approach, or page through our frequently asked questions for details on specific aspects of the project.

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Want to know more about how Blueprint Columbus will help your neighborhood? Get in touch with us today, and we’ll be happy to answer your questions!

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Rain Garden Maintenance Update

Clean Streams. Stronger Neighborhoods.

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