{"id":220,"date":"2011-09-27T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/notes-lid-symposium\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T15:59:21","slug":"notes-lid-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/notes-lid-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes From The LID Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/static\/lid_graphic.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bae.ncsu.edu\/stormwater\/2011lid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Low Impact Development Symposium<\/a> kicked off yesterday with a keynote presentation by Philadelphia Water Department Commissioner Howard Neukrug; the speech focused on Philly&rsquo;s green infrastructure, its relationship to recent flooding conditions, and PWD&rsquo;s focus on helping low-income customers manage stormwater. Low Impact Development (LID) is a planning and engineering design approach to managing runoff with small-scale, natural solutions such as green roofs and porous paving.<\/p>\n<p>And not to be Bragadelphia about things (especially in light of the preceding post&#8217;s shower of praise from <em>Time <\/em>magazine), but throughout presentations and workshops at the LID Symposium\u2014which features speakers and attendees from around the world\u2014Philadelphia was commonly the point of comparison for other cities&#8217; green infrastructure endeavors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Low Impact Development Symposium kicked off yesterday with a keynote presentation by Philadelphia Water Department Commissioner Howard Neukrug; the speech focused on Philly&rsquo;s green infrastructure, its relationship to recent flooding conditions, and PWD&rsquo;s focus on helping low-income customers manage stormwater.<\/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":[2],"tags":[35,44],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-event","tag-green-infrastructure","wpautop"],"acf":{"suggested":null},"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/phila.gov\/blog\/notes-lid-symposium\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Notes From The LID Symposium","url":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/notes-lid-symposium\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/notes-lid-symposium\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Community","author":[],"creator":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"@PhillyH2O Blog","logo":""},"keywords":["event","green infrastructure"],"dateCreated":"2011-09-27T14:06:00Z","datePublished":"2011-09-27T14:06:00Z","dateModified":"2023-01-12T15:59:21Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Notes From The LID Symposium\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/notes-lid-symposium\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/notes-lid-symposium\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Community\",\"author\":[],\"creator\":[],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"@PhillyH2O Blog\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[\"event\",\"green infrastructure\"],\"dateCreated\":\"2011-09-27T14:06:00Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-09-27T14:06:00Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-12T15:59:21Z\"}<\/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\/220","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=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}