A church in Detroit owed nearly $30,000 in water bills — much of it stormwater drainage fees based on the impervious surface on its property.
Thousands of other property owners across the city faced similar pressure as Detroit transitioned to an impervious acreage-based billing system for more accurate stormwater cost allocation.
This is what happens when water infrastructure costs are assigned without robust credits that reward actual performance.
Cities with established stormwater credit programs — such as Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, and Minneapolis — let property owners reduce bills by installing green infrastructure that manages runoff on site. @NatureConservancy has been active in D.C.’s program, which has traded more than 1.7 million credits since 2014.
Yet even these programs have limits: many certify based on design capacity, with limited ongoing monitoring and no portable, blockchain-native record that reliably travels with the credit across ownership changes.
HydroCoin is built for a higher standard — where actual water infiltration is measured in the field, verified by engineers, and recorded on a transparent ledger for property owners, cities, and investors.
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