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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!
But this is not your grandma’s rain barrel…
Communicating with the Public
Understanding CSOs
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
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
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
Syracuse: A case study
History 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 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
Midland Ave RTF CSO Storage,  Treatment and Conveyance Project
Conveyance Trench CSO 044 Conveyance Piping Awaiting Installation Conveyance project under construction through south side neighborhoodcausing significant disruption
Large diameter conveyance pipeline dwarfs front end loader and operator
Environmental Justice Green Infrastructure means… ,[object Object]
 Onondaga Creek & Harbor Brook will be cleaner
 Community investment and beautification instead of further disruption,[object Object]
Proposed by Onondaga NationPartnership for Onondaga Creek 2010 - lspeer@mrss.com
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.
Education & Outreach Save the Rain means…
…being enthusiastic!
Bringing people together…
Save the Rain Outreach Programs 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!
Brochures, activity books, bookmarks, and a board game: “Raindrop Run”

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Dodson 2011 09-26

  • 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…
  • 5.
  • 7. 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
  • 8. 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
  • 9. 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
  • 11. History 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 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
  • 12. Midland Ave RTF CSO Storage, Treatment and Conveyance Project
  • 13. Conveyance Trench CSO 044 Conveyance Piping Awaiting Installation Conveyance project under construction through south side neighborhoodcausing significant disruption
  • 14. Large diameter conveyance pipeline dwarfs front end loader and operator
  • 15.
  • 16. Onondaga Creek & Harbor Brook will be cleaner
  • 17.
  • 18. Proposed by Onondaga NationPartnership for Onondaga Creek 2010 - lspeer@mrss.com
  • 19.
  • 20. 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.
  • 21. Education & Outreach Save the Rain means…
  • 24.
  • 25.
  • 26. Save the Rain Outreach Programs 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!
  • 27. Brochures, activity books, bookmarks, and a board game: “Raindrop Run”
  • 28.
  • 29. Contact me: Khris Dodson Communications and Program Manager Environmental Finance Center 315-443-8818 kdodson@syracusecoe.org www.savetherain.us