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LID Recognition Program
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2007 Leadership in Low Impact Development (LID) Recognition Program
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List of Winners
Category: Built projects – Large-scale Implementation Project Title: Low Impact Development at Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. (WSSI), Virginia
Category: Codes and Ordinances – New regulations and systems at the local government level Project Title: Lower Makefield Low Impact Development Ordinance Revisions Lower Makefield Township, Pennsylvania
Category: Educational Programs – Outreach and Jobs Project Title: MOT Senior Center Rain Garden Retrofit Appoquinimink River Association, Delaware
Category: Leadership – Government Initiatives Project Title: Rain Garden Retrofit in an Urban Landscape WV Department of Environmental Protection, West Virginia
Category: Leadership – NGO initiatives Project Title: Aikido Club Dojo Aikido in Fredericksburg, Virginia
Category: Technology – Innovative non-proprietary approaches and uses Project Title: Demonstrating Innovation: A Stormwater Retrofit at the Providence Supervisor’s Office Fairfax County Government, Virginia
About the Winners
Built projects – Large-scale Implementation Project Title: Low Impact Development at Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. (WSSI) Start Date: April 2004, Completion Date: November 2005
WSSI is the leading natural and cultural resources consultant in Northern Virginia. In 2005, WSSI outgrew its previous office facility, leaving the company with the opportunity to not only build a new office/warehouse space, but to also design and implement a fully-integrated low-impact site, including a green roof, rain garden, underground cistern, three types of permeable pavements, underground gravel detention, and preservation of existing open space, wetlands, and streams. WSSI’s new building is serviced by an existing regional pond; therefore, no on-site stormwater management was required. The project encompasses the entirety of a 5.1-acre site and includes eight types of low-impact techniques, from overall site design to proprietary pavement systems. The techniques are stitched together with a network of perforated underdrains, allowing the site to function much as it did before being built upon.
For more information please contact:
Jennifer Brophy-Price, P.E., LEED AP Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. 5300 Wellington Branch Drive, Suite 100 Gainesville, Virginia 20155 703-679-5654 703-679-5601 jbrophy-price@wetlandstudies.com
Codes and Ordinances – New regulations and systems at the local government level Project Title: Lower Makefield Low Impact Development Ordinance Revisions Lower Makefield Township (Pennsylvania) Start Date: January 2006, Completion Date: December 2006
Lower Makefield Township is located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania bordering the Delaware River and Delaware Canal. The Township formed an Environmental Advisory Council (EAC) to involve community members with various environmental-related professional backgrounds to help the community become more environmentally conscious. The EAC prepared an LID ordinance for the Township. The goals of the LID ordinance revisions are to recognize stormwater as an important natural resource and maximize its infiltration into our aquifers, streams and rivers to the extent feasible to enhance the quality of the water supply and protect natural resources. The ordinance also provides guidelines for site design.
For more information please contact:
Terry Fedorchak/Jim Bray, Township Manager Lower Makefield Township 1100 Edgewood Road Yardley, PA 19067 (267) 274-1101
Educational Programs – Outreach and Jobs Project Title: Middletown/Odessa/Townsend (MOT) Senior Center Rain Garden Retrofit Appoquinimink River Association Start Date: January 2006, Completion Date: June 2006
The Appoquinimink River Association (ARA) is an environmental nonprofit organization that works to educate residents on how they can help prevent water pollution. The ARA implemented a stormwater retrofit within the town of Middletown’s jurisdiction, at the MOT Senior Center, and within one of the more impacted areas in the headwaters of the Appoquinimink River. ARA took a dry pond stormwater management area and retrofitted it into a bioretention area, or rain garden.
For more information please contact:
Sara Wozniak, Executive Director Appoquinimink River Association P.O. Box 341 Middletown, DE 19709 (302) 382-0335
Leadership – Government Initiatives Project Title: Rain Garden Retrofit in an Urban Landscape WV Department of Environmental Protection Start Date: April 11, 2006, Completion Date: September 26, 2006
This project involved the partnering of three groups as well as in-kind contributions from seven other groups. The three primary partners were: West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WV DEP), the state environmental agency; City of Martinsburg, an MS4 municipal government located in Berkeley County, WV; and Berkeley County Commission, a county MS4 located in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. This group installed a Rain Garden Retrofit as a demonstration project to raise public awareness of the benefit and function of rain gardens.
For more information please contact:
Sherry Wilkins, West Virginia MS4 Coordinator WV Department of Environmental Protection 601 57th Street, SE Charleston, WV 25304-2345 304-926-0499 #1048
Leadership – NGO initiatives Project Title: Aikido Club Dojo Aikido in Fredericksburg Start Date: Permitting June 2004, Completion Date: Targeted December 2007
Aikido in Fredericksburg (“AIF”) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. AIF is constructing a new headquarters facility on a 20.4 acre parcel in Spotsylvania, VA. The facility’s design concept is to minimize environmental impact and utilize existing infrastructure to the extent practicable.
Facility Design Elements: · Dojo building - approx. 7,200 square feet (with “green” design elements) and ancillary facilities; · a 2,400 square foot pavilion; · required parking and minimal paving; landscaping including LID stormwater management measures (Reforestation Area, Grassed Swale, Rain Barrels, Biofilter, Infiltration Trench), an organic vegetable garden, an ornamental garden, wildlife habitat improvement, screens/buffers; and · a small greenhouse.
For more information please contact:
Aviv Goldsmith, Chief Instructor Aikido in Fredericksburg 6147 Hickory Ridge Road Spotsylvania, VA 22553 (540)582-9600
Technology – Innovative non-proprietary approaches and uses Project Title: Demonstrating Innovation: A Stormwater Retrofit at the Providence Supervisor’s Office Fairfax County (Virginia) Government Start Date: June 2005, Completion Date: September 2005
Fairfax County is a 414 square mile jurisdiction consisting of thirty watersheds located in Northern Virginia. The Providence District Supervisor’s Office conceived a stormwater retrofit project for improving water quality and decreasing water quantity related to stormwater. They subsequently formed a partnership with the Fairfax County Department of Public Works and Environmental Services and the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District. This successful project encourages similar partnerships. The project site covers 0.87 acres and is located within the Accotink Creek watershed. The completed project serves as a demonstration project for an integrated system of low impact development practices including a landscaped bioretention basin, permeable pavers, and an extensive green roof. This project has been included in various annual county reports including the 2004, 2005, and 2006 Stormwater Management Status Reports which can be found at http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes/stormwater/ms4reports.htm.
For more information please contact:
Irene Haske Public Information Officer II Department of Public Works and Environmental Services Stormwater Management Division 12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 449 Fairfax, VA 22035 703-324-5821 www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes/stormwater
This page last updated: October 11, 2007
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