Talkin’ ‘Bout Cogeneration
February 24, 2012 | Matthew Fritch
Don’t let the painfully boring photo1 of the Northeast Water Pollution Control Plant fool you—exciting things are happening in Bridesburg.
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This Place Is BMPing: Liberty Lands
February 8, 2012 | Matthew Fritch
After the EPA remediated the site of a former tannery in Northern Liberties in the late 1980s, the Northern Liberties Neighbors Association turned the former brownfield into a park.
Read More →When The SMIP Comes In: $5 Million In Grants To Businesses And Non-Profits For Stormwater Management
January 18, 2012 | Matthew Fritch
The Stormwater Management Incentives Program (SMIP) was created to help businesses and non-profits green large, impervious properties and unburden the city’s sewer system from high volumes of stormwater runoff.
Read More →This Place Is BMPing: Saylor Grove
January 6, 2012 | Matt Fritch, Environmental Engineer
Before the Philadelphia Water Department constructed a stormwater wetland at Saylor Grove in Fairmount Park, the area received an excessive amount of runoff that drained into Monoshone Creek, a tributary to the Wissahickon, resulting in erosion of the Monoshone and impaired water quality.
Read More →11 For 2011: Green City, Clean Waters Gets the Green Light
December 31, 2011 | Public Affairs
You can argue that the biggest win for Philadelphia’s watersheds in 2011 wasn’t a tangible project such as a rain garden, stream restoration, green roof or porous street—it was the approval of PWD’s Green City, Clean Waters plan.
Read More →11 For 2011: PWD’s Solar Array
December 29, 2011 | Matthew Fritch
In April, the City of Philadelphia unveiled its first solar photovoltaic system (above), located at PWD’s Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant.
Read More →11 For 2011: Percy Street Porous Paving
December 27, 2011 | Matthew Fritch
In June, the city’s first porous street debuted in South Philadelphia. The 800 block of Percy Street is just six feet wide, but the replacement of traditional impervious asphalt with a porous surface has already had a big impact:
Read More →11 For 2011: Hunting Park Tree Trenches and Planters
December 26, 2011 | Public Affairs
PWD’s Watersheds blog closes out the year with a list of 11 green missions accomplished in 2011, from innovative stormwater management projects and stream restorations to groundbreaking policy agreements and energy-generating solar arrays.
Read More →11 For 2011: Green Roof Bus Shelter
December 25, 2011 | Public Affairs
Merry Christmas—and remember that good things come in small packages. Such is the case for PWD’s green roof bus shelter demonstration project at 15th and Market streets.
Read More →11 For 2011: Queen Lane Bumpouts
December 23, 2011 | Matthew Fritch
Philadelphia’s first stormwater bumpouts debuted this summer on Queen Lane in East Falls. Stormwater bumpouts are just one of PWD’s green stormwater infrastructure tools to reduce runoff and prevent combined sewer overflows into our rivers and streams.
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