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Life Imitates Art: Green City, Clean Waters Art Contest Ceremony and a Green Grant for Nebinger School

Apr 26, 2012
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Come out to the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center today at 4:00 as we congratulate the winners of the 2012 Green City, Clean Waters art contest. More than 700 entries were received this year, as students illustrated the various ways in which our local waterways become polluted, and how we can work together to make them healthy. First-place drawings such as the one by Liana Spiro of Germantown Friends School (above) will be used in a year-round advertising campaign on buses and subways. View all the winners of the drawing and video contests here. Congratulations to the winners, and special thanks to our friends at the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary for organizing this contest.

But that's not all—in a case of life imitating art, students' depictions of how we restore our waterways will become a reality at George W. Nebinger Elementary School. The school, located at 6th and Carpenter streets in South Philadelphia, will be the center of an international model for green stormwater management and educational programming. Green infrastructure tools in the schoolyard (possibilities include porous play surfaces, rain gardens and stormwater planters) and on nearby streets will serve as an outdoor classroom and laboratory for the school's students. This project is a collaboration between the Philadelphia Water Department, the U.S. EPA and the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary in tandem with the School District of Philadelphia. More details to come!

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You're Invited: Greening Philadelphia's Schoolyards

Apr 25, 2012
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Rendering by Studio Gaea

Philadelphia is exploring ways in which we can transform our city's impermeable, blacktop urban schoolyards into greener, more sustainable spaces. Join us on Thursday, May 10 from 4-6 p.m. at the Center for Architecture (1218 Arch Street) for a free, open-to-the-public presentation of design ideas for two of Philadelphia's public schoolyards: John B. Kelly Elementary in Germantown and Henry C. Lea Elementary in West Philadelphia. These designs—generated by a daylong charrette hosted by the Community Design Collaborative, AIA Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Water Department and the U.S. EPA—will serve as models for greening other schoolyards throughout the city in the years to come. A reception and Q&A session invites YOU to share your own ideas and comments. More information about the event can be found here.

Green schoolyards are an important part of Green City, Clean Waters, Philadelphia's 25-year plan to manage stormwater runoff, improve our local waterways and enhance our urban environment.

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TV Guidance: Watch Green City, Clean Waters Documentary on WHYY This Month

Apr 24, 2012
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Set your DVRs: WHYY TV-12 will be airing the Green City, Clean Waters mini-documentary on Thursday, April 26 (5:30 p.m.) and Sunday, April 29 (2:00 p.m.). This 30-minute program explains the stormwater management issues facing Philadelphia and how PWD is implementing green infrastructure to help improve our local waterways and provide other benefits to the city. A short preview:

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Kensington School Makes Architects' List of Top 10 Green Projects of 2012

Apr 20, 2012
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The Kensington High School for Creative and Performing Arts was named one of the top 10 green projects of 2012 by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment. Kensington CAPA—designed by SMP Architects in a joint venture with SRK Architects—is the first public high school to receive LEED certification at the Platinum level. Of course, we here at the Watersheds Blog get really excited about the high school's stormwater management. Kensington CAPA keeps all its stormwater on site through a combination of green roofs (about 50% of the roof coverage), porous paving, rainwater harvesting for reuse, rain barrels and rain gardens.

View more info and photos from the AIA on Kensington CAPA here.

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Help PWD Green Your Neighborhood: Submit a Project Idea for Green Stormwater Infrastructure in Your Community

Apr 19, 2012
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Do you want to improve your neighborhood and protect our creeks and rivers? Does your community have a school, recreation center, park, or other public space available within the City limits for a green stormwater management project? The Philadelphia Water Department wants your ideas on where to implement stormwater bumpouts, tree trenches, rain gardens and other green infrastructure. PWD seeks to partner with communities across Philadelphia as part of our Green City, Clean Waters program. Submit your project idea through our new Community Input for Green Stormwater Infrastructure form.

Some examples of sites that could meet project requirements include vacant lots, traffic triangles, community gardens, parks and schools. (Pictured above is a stormwater management project at Greenfield Elementary—watch the Greening Greenfield video.) Get more information, get involved and get started!

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Vote Now or Forever Hold Your Leash: Less Than Two Weeks Left to Vote for Your Favorite Spokesdog

Apr 19, 2012
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Polls for the 2012 Philly Water's Best Friend Competition close on May 1. That means you have less than two weeks to cast your vote online for your favorite spokesdog in Queen Village and Northern Liberties. Thousands of votes have already been cast to pick the 15 finalists in each neighborhood. Each neighborhood will hold a pageant in June to select an ambassadog to help educate residents and fellow dog-walkers about the negative impacts of dog waste on our rivers and streams. Dog waste that is not picked up can run off into storm drains, where it enters waterways, spreads harmful bacteria, and breeds algae that can kill local fish. 

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Tomorrow Night: The Watershed So Nice They Named It Thrice

Apr 18, 2012
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Join us tomorrow night, Thursday April 19 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center, to learn about the activities and achievements of the Tookany-Tacony/Frankford Watershed Partnership. We'll talk about the TTF Watershed Partnership's history, ways you can get involved, and recent projects such as the storm drain marking initiative pictured above.

Why does one creek have three names, anyway? It begins in Montgomery County as Tookany Creek, is spelled differently (Tacony) in Philadelphia, then becomes Frankford Creek near the intersection of I and Ramona in Juniata Park. Read more about the watershed's history here.

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Waste Not: Philadelphia Turns Sewage Into Energy

Apr 17, 2012
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The big news around here is, as Forbes Magazine so elegantly put it, Hot Poop. More specifically, what hot poop can do for energy costs. Last week, Mayor Nutter was joined by city, state and federal officials to cut the ribbon on a new geothermal project at PWD's Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant that uses heat from wastewater (sewage) to warm the facility's buildings. The city partnered with NovaThermal Energy, a Philadelphia-based company, to implement the geothermal heating system. The 1 million BTU/hour unit in the plant's basement (pictured below) can provide heat at approximately 50% of the current cost, which would save $216,000 over the next 15 years. 

A scatologically correct article in Thursday's Inquirer offered more details:

"Wastewater picks up heat from a number of sources, including dishwashers, showers, and industrial processes, said Jimmy W. Wang, NovaThermal’s chief engineer. There’s also the “biomatter” that still contains heat, Wang said during a visit to the project Wednesday, although he used more scatological terminology. During the winter, sewage is about 60 degrees, and in summer it can exceed 75 degrees. That’s plenty of energy that can be extracted through a conventional heat pump. Haider said the technology is more efficient and cost-effective than traditional geothermal systems, in which deep water wells are drilled into the bedrock to capture heat from the Earth."

For more info on the wastewater geothermal heating project, see the official press release.

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