Community Meeting: Gorgas Run Restoration
October 23, 2015
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Brian Rademaekers
Our Waterways Restoration team is holding an important meeting on Saturday, Oct. 24 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. about efforts to improve Gorgas Run in Roxborough-Manayunk this weekend. Please find the community meeting invite and a fact sheet about the project below (click each for a larger image). We’ll be posting more about this big project here in the future, so stay tuned.
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Join Us: Updates on E. Poplar and Point Breeze Green Infrastructure Improvements
October 12, 2015
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Brian Rademaekers
We have two community meetings coming up this week to update residents on plans for green infrastructure improvements in their neighborhoods. These meetings are designed to provide important information about upcoming construction and to get feedback from neighbors, so if you live near one of these projects, please come out to learn more!
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Community Meeting for Lanier Park Stormwater Improvements
September 10, 2015
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Brian Rademaekers
This project is part of Philadelphia’s Green City, Clean Waters program which works to improve the health of our local rivers. By storing rain water under the park and then letting it soak into the ground through natural processes, we can help keep the Schuylkill River clean. Philadelphia Water’s construction work will start before the overall Lanier Playground Improvement Project planned by Parks
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Community Gets Updates on North Phila. Green Improvements
July 28, 2015
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Brian Rademaekers
The Hope Partnership for Education and other community members in North Philadelphia got an update on Green City, Clean Waters improvements planned for their area during the Hope Community Day celebration on Saturday, July 25.
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Improvements to Address Northern Liberties Flooding
July 13, 2015
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Brian Rademaekers
This area contains the historic Cohocksink Creek and is the focus of a long-term infrastructure improvement project. Traditional sewer expansion and green stormwater tools will improve the capacity of the local system while reducing the amount of water entering sewers.
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DC Reminds Us: The ‘Why’ Behind Green City, Clean Waters
May 22, 2015
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Brian Rademaekers
We couldn’t help but notice all the buzz down in Washington this week as they made the case for green to residents and unveiled revised stormwater plans relying heavily on green infrastructure. We congratulate DC Water on a big step in the right the right direction! Their debut also reminded us of our Green City, Clean Waters rollout way back in 2011, and got us thinking about the “why” behind gre
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Iodine-131: A Panel Discussion
June 13, 2011
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Matthew Fritch
Iodine-131 has been in the news lately, and PWD has been busy responding to media inquiries. Now is your chance to ask your own questions and voice concerns:
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You’re Invited: We Are Our Water
May 19, 2011
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Matthew Fritch
Join us at the Urban Sustainability Forum tonight from 6:00 to 6:30 at the Academy of Natural Sciences’ Main Auditorium for We Are Our Water: How to Protect Our Health, Communities, and Pocketbooks by Using Water Wisely.
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