P3 Funding For Green Infrastructure And How To Limit Risk

Ryan Brown

Public-Private Partnerships (P3) have been a popular funding mechanism for public works projects around the world since the late 1980s¹. More recently, P3 programs have been initiated to help address water quality concerns related to stormwater by providing funding for stormwater retrofits and the development of green infrastructure throughout a municipality, and has become a promoted method for funding these projects by the USEPA².   

In 2015, Prince Georges County, MD entered into the first of its kind in the US, a Community Based P3 program known as the Clean Water Partnership in order to meet the requirements of the Chesapeake Bay’s TMDL and MS4 permit³. This community based P3 set the stage for other communities around the country to follow in their footsteps.