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Green Infrastructure: A Truly Public Utility

Green Infrastructure: A Truly Public Utility. Khris Dodson Environmental Finance Center, Syracuse University serving EPA region 2 September 2011. Cisterns have been around for a long time…. What is old is new again…. Rain has always been a resource!.

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Green Infrastructure: A Truly Public Utility

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  1. Green Infrastructure:A Truly Public Utility Khris Dodson Environmental Finance Center, Syracuse University serving EPA region 2 September 2011

  2. Cisterns have been around for a long time… What is old is new again… Rain has always been a resource!

  3. But this is not your grandma’s rain barrel…

  4. Communicating with the Public

  5. Understanding CSOs

  6. Catch Basin Dry Weather Flow During dry weather, sanitary flows are collected in combined sewers for treatment at Wastewater treatment facilities CombinedSewer SanitarySewer Creek Interceptor Sewer to Wastewater Treatment Facility

  7. Roof Leaders Stormwater Runoff Catch Basin Combined Sewer Overflow During wet weather, inflows exceed the collection system’s capacity and trigger a CSO CombinedSewer SanitarySewer Creek Interceptor Sewer to Wastewater Treatment Facility

  8. Roof Leader Stormwater Runoff Porous Roadway Dry Weather Flow Green solutions intercept and reduce stormwater flows to sewers, providing storage, infiltration, and treatment Vegetated Swale SanitarySewer Combined Sewer Creek Interceptor Sewer to Wastewater Treatment Facility

  9. Syracuse: A case study

  10. 1988 – Atlantic States Legal Foundation files lawsuit against County • 1989 – Litigation settled through METRO consent judgment • 1998 – METRO consent judgment replaced with Amended Consent Judgment (ACJ) • 1st ACJ amendment May 1998 • 2006 ACJ Amended to include consolidation of ammonia and phosphorus treatment and Harbor Brook conveyances and RTF • 3rd Amendment April 2008 (Extension) • 2009 ACJ amended to authorize use of Gray and Green infrastructure History Onondaga Lake Facts Watershed: 285 Square Miles 1 Mile Wide – 4.6 Miles Long Average Depth: 35 feet Max Depth: 63 feet 1940 – Swimming Banned 1970 – Fishing Banned

  11. Midland Ave RTF CSO Storage, Treatment and Conveyance Project

  12. Conveyance Trench CSO 044 Conveyance Piping Awaiting Installation Conveyance project under construction through south side neighborhoodcausing significant disruption

  13. Large diameter conveyance pipeline dwarfs front end loader and operator

  14. Environmental Justice • Green Infrastructure means… • Injustice of Midland plant will not be repeated • Onondaga Creek & Harbor Brook will be cleaner • Community investment and beautification instead of further disruption

  15. Green Infrastructure • Solution to capacity problems with underground storage – reduce the rain! • Proposed by Onondaga Nation Partnership for Onondaga Creek 2010 - lspeer@mrss.com

  16. During 2008 and 2009 the POC, Syracuse University and SUNY-ESF cooperated to obtain over 200 surveys among five neighborhoods of the Midland and Clinton Sewershed to assess public attitudes toward Green Infrastructure (GI) Implementation.

  17. Education & Outreach Save the Rain means…

  18. …being enthusiastic!

  19. Bringing people together…

  20. Workshops Intro to GI for Businesses GI for New Homeowners Community Workshop Rain Barrel Landscape Professionals Pervious Products GI for Youth GI and Art for Children Nature in the City High school classrooms Exhibiting at Events Design Charettes Demonstration Projects …and the Green Improvement Fund for Businesses too! Save the Rain Outreach Programs

  21. Brochures, activity books, bookmarks, and a board game: “Raindrop Run”

  22. Contact me: • Khris Dodson Communications and Program Manager Environmental Finance Center 315-443-8818 kdodson@syracusecoe.org www.savetherain.us

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