urban waters -- howard neukrug discusses philadelphia's clean waters plan
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Clean Water … Green City
Blending interests of land and water
Howard M. Neukrug, PEDirector, Office of Watersheds
A new approachfor SUSTAINBLE Cities!!
MSU Green Roof Research Program (courtesy Old House Journal)
Innovations
Innovative where needed?
Watersquares
• Technically feasible• Cost beneficial,• Sustainable and adaptive,• Supportive of the goals of the:
• Clean Water Act• Safe Drinking Water Act• Clean Air Act• Urban Sustainability
Green infrastructure is:
Re-defining our Industry
• Environmental Protection• Resource Managers• Watershed Protection• Leaders in Sustainable Design• Regional partners• Community based collaboration• Adapting the urban landscape
Linking land and water
Land Water
Infrastructure
Community
Philadelphia Water Department Office of Watersheds
• An integrated utility:• Drinking Water• Wastewater• Stormwater
• A new integrated approach:• Land• Waterways• Infrastructure• Community
• Unite the City with its water
environment
• Create a green legacy for
future generations
• Incorporate a balance
between ecology,
economics and equity
Clean Water … Green City
How to Manage Stormwater
Old Approach –
Collect it and pipe it away quickly!
How to Manage StormwaterNew Approach –
Temporarily hold it on site to allow it to:InfiltrateEvaporateBe Reused
GreenGrey Infrastructure Solutions
Sustainable Site Design
Courtesy of WRT and PennPraxis
Courtesy of WRT and PennPraxis
Planning for land can improve our water
Planning for our water can improve our land
Civic Vision for the Central Delaware
Why is Green Infrastructure Critical to Philadelphia?
• Shrinking cities• Old infrastructure• Continuing the old approach is unsustainable• Large percentage of low income households• Community renewal• Environmental justice• Urban waters and corridors, parks, open space,
The old approach to managing water
Crooked Streams are a menace to life and crops…
In addition, much of the dirt is loosened and later scoured out by the water …which rushes swiftly through the straightened channel
There are significant issues ahead of us for improving the water environment
PLUS: LTCPU, 308 letter, state COA, new permits
Overflow Compliance Costs
Washington Pittsburgh Philly
Population (million) 2 0.850 2
Service Area (mi2) 725 200 286
CSO Area (mi2) 19.5 60 64
Number of CSOs 53 > 300 166
Overflow Volume
(BG/Yr)
2.5 14 16
Compliance Costs $ 2.65 Billion $2 - $3 Billion $ BILLIONS
Our Approach for investing in CSO reductions
• Keep stormwater out of the sewer
• Spend capital dollars above the ground, not below it
• Leverage other sources of money
• Restore the urban waterways
• Recognize that for PWD to be a sustainable utility, our city must be sustainable
• Solve multiple problems at once
The Public is equally interested in all things water
Streamflow and LivingResources, 12%
Quality of Life, 12%
Flooding, 11%
Stream Corridors, 11%
Stewardship, 11%
Pollutant Loads, 10%
Stream Habitat and AquaticLife, 9%
Water Quality, 9%
Coordination, 8%
Stream Channels and Banks,7%
Total Benefits of Green City, Clean Waters over the next 40 years
$-
$500,000,000
$1,000,000,000
$1,500,000,000
$2,000,000,000
$2,500,000,000
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Reduction in Construction-Related Disruptions (0.2%)
Carbon Footprint Reduction(0.6%)
Energy Savings (1.0%)
Avoided Social Costs fromGreen Jobs (3.7%)
Air Quality (4.6%)
Water Quality and Habitat(14.5%)
Property Value Added (18%)
Recreation (22%)
Heat Stress MortalityReduction (35%)
Our Approach….
• Capture the first inch of each storm
• For every impervious acre “greened” we will reduce about 1 Million gallons of runoff per year
• Achieve continuous improvement for water quality
Green Infrastructure = Continuous Improvement
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Centralized Storage Green InfrastructureGreen/Transmission/Treatment
Our Approach….
• Capture the first inch of each storm
• For every impervious acre “greened” we will reduce about 1 Million gallons of runoff per year
• Achieve continuous improvement for water quality
• The more change that occurs through normal urban renewal, the less it will cost
Philadelphia’s 2006 Stormwater Regs have already reduced runoff by (almost) 1 BG per year
Our Approach….
• Capture the first inch of each storm
• For every impervious acre “greened” we will reduce about 1 Million gallons of runoff per year
• Achieve continuous improvement for water quality
• The more change that occurs through normal urban renewal, the less it will cost
• Use incentives to increase the rate of change
Creating an impervious cover rate charge
How our Rate Payer’s money will be invested
• $ 270 Wet Weather Treatment Plant Upgrade
How our Rate Payer’s money will be invested
• $ 270 Wet Weather Treatment Plant Upgrade
• $ 310 million Stream Corridor Restoration and
Preservation
“Fishable, Swimmable, safe, attractive and accessible”
Before and After restoration of an interceptor
Proposed Stream Corridor and Preservation Sites
How our Rate Payer’s money will be invested
• $ 270 Wet Weather Treatment Plant Upgrade
• $ 310 million Stream Corridor Restoration and
Preservation
• $1020 million Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Vision: “Philly’s 8 green programs to manage every acre
of imperviousness”
Philly’s 8 green programs
Putting it all together
To rebuild our City
Overwhelming Public Support
“I love the idea! Please give us a greener Philadelphia. It would make us healthier and happier all around.”
- Response to the question, “Are you in favor of greening?” (PWD “Green Neighborhoods through Green Streets Survey.”)
“I love the idea! Please give us a greener Philadelphia. It would make us healthier and happier all around.”
- Response to the question, “Are you in favor of greening?” (PWD “Green Neighborhoods through Green Streets Survey.”)
Imagine if we invested in
Philadelphia’sgreen
infrastructure …
Belmont Intake Riparian Restoration Project
Schuylkill River
BEFORE
AFTER
Washington Avenue
Port Richmond Rail Yards and Lehigh Viaduct
Frankford Avenue
Pier 70 Early Action
Penn Treaty Park
Spring Garden Street
Girard Interchange Connection
Clean Water Green City = Urban Waters Program?
• Based on Achieving Water Quality Goals• Improves public health, the environment and
quality of life and builds community capacity• Makes environmental stewardship relevant to
new sectors of society• Green jobs and volunteerism• Sustainable over generations• Restores the urban waterways and the
communities that surround them
Working in partnership
• EPA - OW, OECA, OWOW, ORD, smart growth, green jobs, environmental justice, brownfields and land revitalization, smart growth, Region 3
• ACE, HUD, Commerce, US Forest Service, National Park Service, USDA
Clean Water … Green City
Credit: Maurer, City of LinzQuestions???Questions???
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