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NYC Department of Environmental Protection with Biohabitats/HydroQual/Hazen and Sawyer

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
This design, by NYC DEP and a “joint venture” of consultants, brings water from catch basins along Bronx Boulevard and 224th Street in the Bronx to a series of bioretention areas in Shoelace Park, to direct peak flow from a trouble spot on the road into this permeable area.
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Team HAKA

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
Former classmates on team HAKA retrofit the Harlem River span Highbridge with a design that repurposes the former aqueduct as a self-irrigating greenway and a stormwater management system that would capture approximately one million gallons of water per year.
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Sang-ayunan

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
Team Sang-ayunan, calls their design a “Curbolution”. They create a pedestrian-friendly new curb for Rockefeller Plaza that tucks a compact bioswale right into the gutter. Team Sang-ayunan are classmates from Cornell University.
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Joseph G. and Nicholas Lione

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
Joseph G. and Nicholas Lione observed that stormwater is presently collected through storm drains into catch basins, where it rests before flowing into the sewers. The father-son engineering team asks, “what if, at the bottom of these basins, there was a hole thru which the stormwater could enter the soil beneath?”
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We Design with Regional Plan Association and Brooklyn Greenway Initiative

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
When complete, the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway will be a 14-mile route connecting neighbors and neighborhoods to four major parks and over a dozen local open spaces on Brooklyn’s historic waterfront. WE Design, together Regional Plan Association and Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, propose pairing the greenway with “treatment trains” that mimic natural hydrology, capturing and treating rainwater. [...]
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The North Brooklyn Compost Project and NYC Soil and Water Conservation District

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
The North Brooklyn Compost Project proposes a tree lawn retrofit that will allow stormwater to enter the lawn and infiltrate through a rain garden on N12th Street in Brooklyn.  Partners at the NYC Soil and Water Conservation District delineated the site’s subwatershed and estimated the garden would need to gulp down 5,000 gallons of stormwater [...]
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