{"id":734,"date":"2016-05-05T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/cliveden-park-celebrates-5-years-green-city-clean-waters\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T13:39:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T18:39:30","slug":"cliveden-park-celebrates-5-years-green-city-clean-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/cliveden-park-celebrates-5-years-green-city-clean-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliveden Park Celebrates 5 Years of Green City, Clean Waters!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe terraced rain gardens of Cliveden Park in fall (top) and spring. The structures provide beautiful landscaping while managing stormwater from nearby streets and protecting local streams. Philadelphia Water<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Join Philadelphia Water\u00a0next\u00a0Saturday, May 14, at Cliveden Park<\/a>, located at Chew Ave. and E. Johnson Street in Mt. Airy, from 9 a.m. to noon for a special Love Your Park Week<\/a> event with the Friends of Cliveden and Fairmount Water Works<\/a> educators.<\/p>\n

We will be cleaning up this gorgeous\u00a0public space and showing off Cliveden\u2019s amazing green stormwater infrastructure<\/a>(Sorry, this content is no longer available)<\/em> with a tour exploring how water flows through the park\u2019s unique terraced rain gardens<\/a>, nourishing the native plants and soaking naturally into the ground instead of overwhelming Mt. Airy\u2019s sewers.<\/p>\n

The event is part of our ongoing 5 Down<\/a><\/em> <\/strong>celebrations highlighting the thousands of new green stormwater tools<\/a> added to Philadelphia neighborhoods through public and private investment during the first five years of the 25-year Green City, Clean Waters<\/a><\/em> program. Working together, the green infrastructure tools now found at hundreds of sites across the city help to keep over 600 million gallons of polluted water out of our rivers<\/strong> and streams each year.<\/p>\n

How big is 600 million gallons? Try to imagine every single one of Philadelphia\u2019s 1.5 million people, all\u00a0carrying 400 one-gallon buckets<\/strong>\u2014that\u2019s how much pollution Green City, Clean Waters<\/em><\/a> investments will keep out of our waterways this year! You can get a look at all the green infrastructure created in Philadelphia since Green City, Clean Waters<\/em> launched in 2011 by visiting our Big Green Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This 5 Down<\/em> <\/a><\/strong>event is a way of thanking partners (like the Friends of Cliveden Park!) who made it possible for us to surpass our 2016 pollution-reduction targets<\/a>\u00a0(Sorry, this content is no longer available).<\/em>\u00a0Those goals were defined in an agreement between the City and the Environmental Protection Agency to eliminate 85 percent of our stormwater pollution volume by 2036<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In addition to the rain garden tour and cleanup, we will have fun rain drop cards<\/a> that let you tell your piece of the Green City, Clean Waters <\/em>story.
\nFor more information about the event, contact Tiffany Ledesma at Tiffany.Ledesma@phila.gov<\/a><\/p>\n

We hope you\u2019ll join us to celebrate five years of cleaner water through greener neighborhoods<\/a> and to learn more about what we have planned for the next 20 years of Green City, Clean Waters<\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join Philadelphia Water next Saturday, May 14, at Cliveden Park, located at Chew Ave. and E. Johnson Street in Mt. Airy, from 9 a.m. to noon for a special Love Your Park Week event with the Friends of Cliveden and Fairmount Water Works educators.<\/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":[3],"tags":[43,57,69,100],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-green-city-clean-waters","tag-love-your-park","tag-philadelphia-parks-and-recreation","tag-tookany-tacony-frankford","wpautop"],"acf":{"suggested":null},"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/phila.gov\/blog\/cliveden-park-celebrates-5-years-green-city-clean-waters\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Cliveden Park Celebrates 5 Years of Green City, Clean Waters!","url":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/cliveden-park-celebrates-5-years-green-city-clean-waters\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/cliveden-park-celebrates-5-years-green-city-clean-waters\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Events","author":[],"creator":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"@PhillyH2O Blog","logo":""},"keywords":["green city\u201a clean waters","love your park","philadelphia parks and recreation","tookany-tacony frankford"],"dateCreated":"2016-05-05T21:03:00Z","datePublished":"2016-05-05T21:03:00Z","dateModified":"2023-01-19T18:39:30Z"},"rendered":"