Projects
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| Green
Design Projects Innovative Management of Stormwater on Underutilized Urban Surfaces (Bronx, NY) Partners: Randall's Island Sports Foundation, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Cornell University Funding: New York Water Resources Institute - Developing and testing the effectiveness of several porous growth media prototypes to treat stormwater runoff using natural treatment systems. Laboratory testing will document the physical and hydrological properties of the prototypes, as well as pollutant removal efficiencies. The second stage of the project is to incorporate successful prototypes into a larger urban stormwater treatment system receiving runoff from the Triborough Bridge. Project Description (pdf) |
Increasing Biodiversity and Ecological Productivity in the Bronx River Watershed
through Stormwater Catchment Modifications |
| Stormwater Capture Parks along Henry Hudson Parkway (Bronx, NY) Partners: The Gaia Institute, Riverdale Nature Preservancy Funding: JM Kaplan Fund - Prepared a report describing how parklands and green buffers could be used to capture stormwater, decrease environmental degradation from erosion and non-point source pollution, and increase aesthetic value. - Developed engineering designs of stormwater capture and ecological infiltration systems for a Bronx span of the Parkway. Project Description (pdf) |
| Restoration
of Pryor Manor Marsh (Westchester Co., NY) Partners: Creative Habitat Corporation - Conducted on-site tidal monitoring, determined long-term tidal datum planes, designed culverts, and developed open channel designs for five-acre wetland restoration project. Site had been previously isolated from Long Island Sound by road construction activities. |
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Water Gardens in El Jardin de Paraiso
(New York, NY) Partner: El Jardin de Paraiso Steering Committee, The Gaia Institute Funding: Green Acres - Designed a park grading plan and sized a rainwater harvesting system for Lower East Side community garden. The garden will become a model for urban ecological sustainability, by infiltrating runoff from adjacent impervious surfaces like rooftops, roadways, and sidewalks, diverting it from combined sewers. - Analyzed spatial extent of soil lead contamination and partnering in the development of in-situ bioremediation plan for lead contaminated soils. |
| Constructed
Wetlands in the Venice Lagoon (Venice, Italy) Partners: Forum per la Lagura de Verezia, IUAV, U. di Venezia, Consorzio Venezia Nuova, Thetis Centro Servizi Funding: US Fulbright Commission, ASPIV - Designed a sub-surface flow constructed wetland treatment facility for a 50-person island community using local wetland vegetation. Project was constructed in 1998 and featured in EXPO 2000, Projects Around the World Forum (Hanover, Germany). Performance monitoring is ongoing. |
| Urban Infiltration in the South Bronx (Bronx, NY) Partners: NOAA, The Gaia Institute Funding: NOAA - Developed streetscape infrastructure designs for converting underutilized spaces into vegetated infiltration areas. Conducted hydrologic analyses to appropriately size systems and produced engineered and architectural renderings to illustrate designs for community groups. Project Description (pdf) |
| Rainwater Harvesting System Design (Bronx, NY) Partners: Big Sue, LLC, Water Resources Group Funding: Big Sue, LLC - Designing a water harvesting system for a commercial building to use water for flushing toilets and irrigating grounds and green roofs. Project Description (pdf) |
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