Going Green Begins By Thinking Blue: Rainwater Strategies for Cermak Road
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Transcript of Going Green Begins By Thinking Blue: Rainwater Strategies for Cermak Road
Jay Womack, ASLA, LEED APDirector, Sustainable Design
Going Green Begins By Thinking Blue:rainwater strategies for cermak road
Dan Kavanaugh, P.E.Vice President
Cermak Road and Blue Island Avenue Streetscape “Calle Ecologica”
Phase 1 Streetscape Limits
Phase 2 Streetscape Limits
Approximately 37.5” of precipitation falls on every acre of the midwest
That’s equal to nearly 1,000,000 gallons of water per acre per year
For Cermak Road that is roughly 16,000,000 gallons of precipitation every year
Unfortunately, most of it goes somewhere else as Urban Runoff…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ranks urban runoff and storm-sewer discharges as the fourth most prevalent source of impairment of our lakes, streams,
and rivers.
Resulting in the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone.
This phenomena grows to approximately
8,000 square miles each spring…
Each spring enormous quantities of dissolved nutrients (nitrogen) are transported from the
upper Midwest into the Gulf of Mexico…
The intersection of Cermak and Halstead.
Looking west near the intersection of Peoria and Cermak.
Looking east near the intersection of Peoria and Cermak.
CERMAK ROAD – EXISTING CONDITIONS
CERMAK ROAD – EXISTING CONDITIONS
Looking east near the intersection of Racine and Cermak. Sidewalks are narrow and are in poor condition.
Typical conditions along the railroad track on the south side of Cermak. There is little room
for sidewalk improvements along the tracks.
BLUE ISLAND – EXISTING CONDITIONS
Looking east on the north side of Cermak from the intersection of Paulina and Cermak. The sidewalks are wider and have ample room for planters. Existing trees will remain, where they are in good condition.
Looking west on the south side of Cermak. The sidewalks are in poor condition and are in need
of repair and additional landscaping.
STORM WATER MANAGEMENT AND WATER EFFICIENCY - CERMAK ROAD NORTH SIDE
STORM WATER MANAGEMENT AND WATER EFFICIENCY - CERMAK ROAD NORTH SIDE
Carex vulpinoideafox sedge
Spartina pectinatarice cut grass
STORM WATER MANAGEMENT AND WATER EFFICIENCY – CERMAK ROAD SOUTH SIDE
STORM WATER MANAGEMENT AND WATER EFFICIENCY - CERMAK ROAD SOUTH SIDE
Carex vulpinoideafox sedge
Spartina pectinatarice cut grass
Physotegia virginianafalse dragonhead
Solidago ‘Little Lemon’Little lemon goldenrod
Equisetum scirpoidesdwarf horsetail
Leymus glaucusBlue lyme grass
STORM WATER MANAGEMENT AND WATER EFFICIENCY – BLUE ISLAND AVENUE
Permeable pavers with smog-eating concrete will retain an SRI of .55
Bromus kalmiikalms brome
Andropogon scopariuslittle bluestem
Bouteloua curtipendulasideoats gramma
Coreopsis lanceolataSand tickseed
WESTERN AVENUE PLAZA