{"id":139,"date":"2011-07-06T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/place-bmping-friends-center\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T11:43:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T16:43:34","slug":"place-bmping-friends-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/place-bmping-friends-center\/","title":{"rendered":"This Place Is BMPing: Friends Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Each week, we profile a BMP\u2014short for Best Management Practices\u2014to demonstrate how local businesses, organizations and neighbors are helping to keep our streams and rivers clean by managing stormwater on their property.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/static\/friends_center_bmp.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Located two blocks north of City Hall at 15th and Cherry streets, the Friends Center features one of Philadelphia&rsquo;s most famous green roofs. In keeping with the Friends&#8217; commitment to &#8220;tread lightly on the Earth,&#8221; the green roof and stormwater collection\/reuse system help to preserve the Schuylkill River watershed by lessening the impact of more than 58 million gallons of runoff per year.<\/p>\n<p>The green roof absorbs 90% of stormwater, and the remaining 10% that does not infiltrate is filtered by the vegetation and soil. In addition, rainwater from the roof is collected in six large tanks in the building&rsquo;s basement, where it is purified and reused as &#8220;grey water&#8221; to flush restroom toilets. These efforts have led to a 90% reduction in the Friends Center&#8217;s water bill.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about this stormwater BMP project, find it on a map and view photos at\u00a0 the Temple-Villanova Sustainable Stormwater Initiative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csc.temple.edu\/t-vssi\/BMPSurvey\/friends_center.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">project page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located two blocks north of City Hall at 15th and Cherry streets, the Friends Center features one of Philadelphia&rsquo;s most famous green roofs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"custom_css":"","custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,44,51,95],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure","tag-green-city-clean-waters","tag-green-infrastructure","tag-infrastructure-investment","tag-stormwater","wpautop"],"acf":{"suggested":null},"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/phila.gov\/blog\/place-bmping-friends-center\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"This Place Is BMPing: Friends Center","url":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/place-bmping-friends-center\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/place-bmping-friends-center\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Infrastructure","author":[],"creator":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"@PhillyH2O Blog","logo":""},"keywords":["green city\u201a clean waters","green infrastructure","infrastructure investment","stormwater"],"dateCreated":"2011-07-06T15:58:00Z","datePublished":"2011-07-06T15:58:00Z","dateModified":"2023-01-13T16:43:34Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"This Place Is BMPing: Friends Center\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/place-bmping-friends-center\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/place-bmping-friends-center\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Infrastructure\",\"author\":[],\"creator\":[],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"@PhillyH2O Blog\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[\"green city\\u201a clean waters\",\"green infrastructure\",\"infrastructure investment\",\"stormwater\"],\"dateCreated\":\"2011-07-06T15:58:00Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-07-06T15:58:00Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-13T16:43:34Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/phila.gov\/p.js"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}