{"id":276,"date":"2012-02-08T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/place-bmping-liberty-lands\/"},"modified":"2023-01-10T16:27:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T21:27:39","slug":"place-bmping-liberty-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/place-bmping-liberty-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"This Place Is BMPing: Liberty Lands"},"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><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/static\/liblands.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>After the EPA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/brownfields\/success\/libertylandspass.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remediated<\/a> 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. Liberty Lands, as it is now known, completed its remarkable turnaround with the construction of a stormwater management project. A rain garden detention pond collects runoff from the site and an adjacent street, filtering it through a stone bed and delivering it to a series of three in-ground cisterns. An irrigation system pumps water from the cisterns to irrigate trees and grass at the park. Maintaining the grass cover at the sloped site helps reduce erosion problems.<\/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\/libertylands.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">project page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/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":[44,81,95],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure","tag-green-infrastructure","tag-riverwards","tag-stormwater","wpautop"],"acf":{"suggested":null},"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/phila.gov\/blog\/place-bmping-liberty-lands\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"This Place Is BMPing: Liberty Lands","url":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/place-bmping-liberty-lands\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/place-bmping-liberty-lands\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Infrastructure","author":[],"creator":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"@PhillyH2O Blog","logo":""},"keywords":["green infrastructure","riverwards","stormwater"],"dateCreated":"2012-02-08T22:53:00Z","datePublished":"2012-02-08T22:53:00Z","dateModified":"2023-01-10T21:27:39Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"This Place Is BMPing: Liberty Lands\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/place-bmping-liberty-lands\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/place-bmping-liberty-lands\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Infrastructure\",\"author\":[],\"creator\":[],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"@PhillyH2O Blog\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[\"green infrastructure\",\"riverwards\",\"stormwater\"],\"dateCreated\":\"2012-02-08T22:53:00Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-02-08T22:53:00Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-10T21:27:39Z\"}<\/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\/276","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=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}