One of the biggest complaints we hear from our ratepayers is the idea that while they pay their bills on time and in full, others who are perfectly able to pay are delinquent and getting their water for free.
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Pipes, mains, lines – these water infrastructure words have been a hot topic in the Philadelphia news the past few weeks.
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We’re at the halfway point of Greenworks—the plan that outlines how Philadelphia will become the greenest city in America by 2015—and giant steps have been taken toward sustainability.
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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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As public-service campaigns go, the Streets Department’s UnLitter Us initiative is making a huge impact around the city.
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The Philadelphia Water Department’s green infrastructure projects—tree trenches, rain gardens, porous paving and planters, just to name a few—are designed to store and infiltrate stormwater runoff into the ground.
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A portion of the porous concrete sidewalk in front of East Germantown’s Waterview Recreation Center was replaced yesterday; the surface of the sidewalk was spalling, or breaking apart.
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Wises Mill Run, a tributary of Wissahickon Creek, is a waterway that’s severely impacted by stormwater flows. After storms, the nearby neighborhood’s storm sewers discharge a large volume of water into Wises Mill Run, resulting in erosion of the creek’s bed.
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We’ll have a more detailed post in the coming week concerning the performance of Philadelphia’s green stormwater infrastructure during Hurricane Irene, but the preliminary report from Percy Street—the city’s first porous street, unveiled in June—indicates a unanimous victory for this green project:
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Even if you don’t care about stormwater management (and it’s our sworn duty to insist you really should), who doesn’t like to watch stuff get wrecked?
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