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NYC Department of Environmental Protection and Gaia Institute

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
The Department of Environmental Protection worked with the Gaia Institute on this project as part of a three-year pilot study program to implement and monitor several stormwater management techniques within the Jamaica Bay watershed. The results of this pilot study will be used by the DEP to develop design guidelines.
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Greenstreets

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
Greenstreets is a citywide greening and urban beautification program created by New York City Department of Parks & Recreation that converts unused spaces within the right-of-way into small gardens. Several Greenstreets actively collect stormwater runoff while providing safe thoroughfare for pedestrians and improved urban habitat. This site, on Church Avenue in Brooklyn, contains a bioswale [...]
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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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