Help PWD Green Your Neighborhood: Submit a Project Idea for Green Stormwater Infrastructure in Your Community
				
				
					
						April 19, 2012
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						Matthew Fritch
					
				
				
				
				
				
					
Do you want to improve your neighborhood and protect our creeks and rivers? Does your community have a school, recreation center, park, or other public space available within the City limits for a green stormwater management project?
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					Waste Not: Philadelphia Turns Sewage Into Energy
				
				
					
						April 17, 2012
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						Matthew Fritch
					
				
				
				
				
				
					
The big news around here is, as Forbes Magazine so elegantly put it, Hot Poop. More specifically, what hot poop can do for energy costs.
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					The Green Team: EPA and Philadelphia Sign Innovative Stormwater Agreement
				
				
					
						April 11, 2012
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						Matthew Fritch
					
				
				
				
				
				
					
Call it a collaboration of infiltration—the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the City of Philadelphia agreed yesterday to become partners in a 25-year plan to use green infrastructure to manage stormwater runoff.
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					East Falls: You’ve Got Stormwater Bumpouts
				
				
					
						April 4, 2012
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						Matthew Fritch
					
				
				
				
				
				
					
Pop Quiz! A Stormwater Bumpout is:
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					Green Like Us: New York City Embraces Green Stormwater Infrastructure
				
				
					
						March 20, 2012
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						Matthew Fritch
					
				
				
				
				
				
					
Last week, the New York Times ran an article detailing New York City’s plan to invest $2 billion in green infrastructure—porous pavement, green roofs, bioswales—to help retain stormwater and prevent sewer overflows into the city’s waterways.
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					Most Sustainable In Show: PWD Flower Show Display Wins Sustainability Award
				
				
					
						March 13, 2012
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						Matthew Fritch
					
				
				
				
				
				
					
The 2012 International Flower Show, which wrapped up last week, aimed to take visitors on a trip to Hawaii. The Philadelphia Water Department’s display, however, kept it right here in Philly, demonstrating how green roofs, rain gardens and other green infrastructure can beautify our city while managing stormwater runoff that pollutes our rivers and streams.
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					Good For Business: New Grant Program Helps Business Improvement Districts Manage Stormwater
				
				
					
						March 7, 2012
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						Matthew Fritch
					
				
				
				
				
				
					
Are you a Business Improvement District, Neighborhood Improvement District, or Special Services District in the city of Philadelphia? You could be eligible for grant funding to implement stormwater management on non-residential parcels.
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					Talkin’ ‘Bout Cogeneration
				
				
					
						February 24, 2012
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						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
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						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.
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					When The SMIP Comes In: $5 Million In Grants To Businesses And Non-Profits For Stormwater Management
				
				
					
						January 18, 2012
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						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.
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