Nice Threads: WHYY on PWD’s Yarn Art
March 21, 2012 | Matthew Fritch
Everybody knows that March marks the beginning of spring NCAA March madness Women’s History Month Fiber Philadelphia, a biennial for fiber/textile art.
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See South Philly Soak It Up
March 16, 2012 | Matthew Fritch
On March 8, our second Soak It Up! event took place at 16th and Jackson streets in South Philly. Neighbors joined city officials and PWD employees to celebrate the stormwater tree trenches that absorb runoff and make 16th Street a green street.
Read More →Most Sustainable In Show: PWD Flower Show Display Wins Sustainability Award
March 13, 2012 | 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.
Read More →Good For Business: New Grant Program Helps Business Improvement Districts Manage Stormwater
March 7, 2012 | 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.
Read More →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: 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.
Read More →Harvard Crimson Meets Philadelphia Green
December 14, 2011 | 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.
Read More →A Rain Garden Grows in Germantown
November 8, 2011 | 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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