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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This Place Is BMPing: Saylor Grove
January 6, 2012
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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.
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11 For 2011: Queen Lane Bumpouts
December 23, 2011
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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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Harvard Crimson Meets Philadelphia Green
December 14, 2011
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Matthew Fritch
Earlier this month, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design hosted “The Philadelphia Story: Planning, Politics and Reality,” a panel discussion led by Loeb fellow and Philadelphia Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron.
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A Rain Garden Grows in Germantown
November 8, 2011
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Matthew Fritch
On Saturday, Germantown’s Vernon Park debuted its new rain garden as part of the citywide Love Your Park clean-up campaign.
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Tonight: Clean Water Is Good Business
October 20, 2011
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Matthew Fritch
The green roof on PECO’s building in Center City (pictured above) is certainly one way that businesses practice good stormwater management.
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Philly Green Infrastructure in Time Magazine
September 27, 2011
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Matthew Fritch
A feature story in this week’s issue of Time Magazine (above), “Street Smarts,” highlights America’s aging infrastructure crisis and Philadelphia’s “smarter” approach:
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Storage Wars: Philadelphia’s Green Infrastructure Takes On Lee and Irene
September 22, 2011
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Matthew Fritch
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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German Engineering: Tempelhof Wasserpark
September 19, 2011
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Matthew Fritch
Last week, the American Society of Landscape Architects announced the winners of the 2011 Student Awards, and a conceptual design for Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Germany, caught our eye.
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This Place Is BMPing: Wises Mill Run Stormwater Wetland
September 9, 2011
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Matthew Fritch
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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