Metro Water Services offers various incentives encouraging sites to be developed using green infrastructure practices. To learn more about these incentives and for design manuals, training videos, and other resources, please visit Metro Water Services' Low Impact Development page. Below are just some of the examples of existing, documented green infrastructure projects in Nashville. Click on linked items to see a photo of that infrastructure.
Green Roofs
5th and Main Condominiums in East Nashville
The Adelicia Condominiums
AT&T Building/Plaza
Freeman Webb's Green Hills headquarters
Hilton Suites, 4th Avenue South
The Neuhoff Building in East Nashville
Shelby Bottoms Nature Center
Werthan Mills Lofts
Westview Condos
Water Harvesting
Hill Center - Belle Meade
Hill Center - Green Hills
Nashville's Public Square at City Hall
Bioretention/Bioinfiltration Areas
Parking lot at 1700 Charlotte Avenue
Deaderick Street Green Street
The Dorset Park subdivision on Granny White Pike
Carden Avenue Rain Garden
Javanco/Mercury View
Martin Corner 3
Morgan Park Place
Southgate
Vanderbilt 100 Oaks
Vanderbilt Student Commons
West Eastland Townhomes
Water Quality Swales
Ellington Agricultural
Hill Center - Green Hills
Howard School (Metro)
Vanderbilt 100 Oaks
Permeable Pavement
1700 Charlotte
Avenue Bank
Beaman Park Nature Center
Bells Bend Nature Center
Deaderick Street
Friendship Christian
Green Hills YMCA
Global Motorsports
Howard School (Metro)
Javanco/Mercury View
Martin Corner 3
Morgan Park Place
Music Row Parking
Nashville Nissan
Nashville Opera
Nashville Skyline
NFL Stadium (LP Field)
Pilot Gas Station
Private Residence - Belle Meade
Private Residence - Germantown
South Inglewood Park
Tennessee Concrete Association offices
Troutt Theater
Vanderbilt Student
Walmart Supercenter
West Eastland Townhomes
A Green Infrastructure Master Plan for Stormwater
Metro Water Services took the initiative to develop the Green Infrastructure Master Plan for stormwater to reduce, through the use of green infrastructure, urban flooding due to rainfall. The approach taken was low impact, implementing measures designed to capture water before it even enters the combined sewer system, thus relieving pressure on the system. The Green Infrastructure Master Plan also acts as part of Nashville’s ability to meet the challenge of balancing growth and environmental protection, through incorporating Green Infrastructure into both new and redevelopment efforts. Investing in Green Infrastructure offers the opportunity to enhance the existing infrastructure and protect the environment, while simultaneously creating new green jobs, creating demand for green technologies, and revitalizing local neighborhoods.
How is Clean Water Nashville Planning for Additional Green Infrastructure?
A Green Infrastructure Integration Plan is currently being developed. The goal of the Green Infrastructure Integration Plan is to provide a defensible and realistic plan for the integration of Green Infrastructure as a meaningful component of Nashville's Consent Decree - Long Term Control Plan, building on the previous research and successes of Metro Water Services' Green Infrastructure Master Plan and the Volume 5 - Low Impact Development Manual. The recommended process consists of three steps:
Peer Review
Research and Monitoring