3. The Green Renaissance
It’s what the public wants
Cost of the Program: $32 Million Per Year
Benefits:
Stream Restoration, Urban Best Management
Practices, Community Greening, In-line Debris
Collection, Infrastructure Cleaning and Inspection,
Development Greening
7. How do we develop a
watershed
restoration plan with
active community
leadership for an
area of enclosed Watershed Community Collaboration
streams where the
environmental quality
and social fabric of
the watershed are
both impaired?
10. Neighborhood Assessment
• Neighborhood Source Assessment (NSA)
• Hotspot Site Investigation (HSI)
• Pervious Area Assessment (PAA)
• Streets and Storm Drains (SSD)
Two levels of BMP screening needed
11. Project Selection
• The presence of trees,
utilities (i.e., gas, electric,
water, sanitary sewer,
etc.), very compacted
urban soils, and a general
lack of space ruled out a
lot of projects and BMP
types…
– Only 35 sites were
investigated in detail
– The list of potential BMP
types was trimmed down to
about 5
Don’t forget public out-reach at
program and project scales
12. Monitoring, Evaluation and Research
Methods
Paired watershed
monitoring design
Pollution Hotspot
Compare Median Concentration Storm Samples
Lead, Total
Medians Current Lab Reporting Limit
50
46
45 44
40
35
Lead, Total (ug/L)
30
25
20
20 18
16
15
10
5
0
Hamilton Radecke Lanvale St. Baltimore St. National
Storm EMC Storm EMC Storm Comp Storm Comp Storm EMC
20. I-1: Impervious Cover
Removal
Post- Construction
Pre-Construction
(Tried deep soil tilling)
During
Construction
21.
22. Power of the people
Figure 9: Sidewalk enhancements on Collington between Lombard and Baltimore
Streets
Figure 10: Bump out at Collington and Lombard Street
23. Member Benefits
Two issues of the Watershed Science Bulletin
Substantial webcast discounts
50% discounts on publications
Subscription to our quarterly e-newsletter, Runoff Rundown
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