>StormStore Terra Firma Pilot Project

The Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) have led development
of a stormwater credit trading program (known as StormStore) in Cook County, IL. MPC recently
retained Environmental Consulting and Technology (ECT) and One Water Econ to prepare a schematic
level design for a project located within the City of Chicago to study the credit-generating potential of
nature-based solutions and to assess the costs and benefits of the project. The project began with 16
potential sites where a StormStore project could be located to address neighborhood flooding while
simultaneously providing amenities that would be attractive to the neighborhood beyond flood
reduction benefits.