Professional Practice
Deadline Extension: Watershed Management, Flood Mitigation Green Infrastructure Planning Services
Date: 2/14/2025 - 2/28/2025
Description:
Through this RFP, the City seeks to fund two planning activities to assess disaster recovery needs and mitigate flood hazard risks throughout the City; a Regional Flood Mitigation and Green Infrastructure Plan and a River Des Peres Feasibility and Design Study.
Regional Flood Mitigation and Green Infrastructure Plan: The City, in coordination with members of the Green City Coalition, will procure a planning and/or landscape architecture firm to create a plan that assesses flood hazard risk of the watershed that includes the City of St. Louis and presents a cohesive, city-wide strategy for the design and implementation for improved stormwater management and green infrastructure. Extreme heat mitigation and biodiversity will also be important priorities for green infrastructure investment.
River Des Peres Feasibility and Design Study: The City will procure a planning and/or landscape architecture firm to create a feasibility and design study to guide restoration of portions of the River Des Peres that will reduce flood risk and improve environmental quality of this historic urban river. The plan will assess current flood management capacity and projected needs; it will assess stresses to local ecosystems and opportunities for community amenities. The plan will also include an assessment of land within the river’s floodplain to identify specific opportunities for shifting land use in a manner that reduces future flood impacts.