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Rain Gardens & Bioretention Areas • Shallow depression of soil and plants, filters runoff and slows its flow Ashford Park, Ardsley Kingston Library

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Page 1: Rain Gardens Bioretention Areas - dec.ny.gov€¢Improves stream health, filters and slows polluted runoff, many ... – Demonstration sites. ... • Visit local practices

Rain Gardens & Bioretention Areas• Shallow depression of soil and plants, filters runoff and 

slows its flow

Ashford Park, Ardsley Kingston Library

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Vegetated Swales• Natural drainage paths or vegetated channels used to 

transport water above ground

Subdivision, PawlingVillage Hall, Greenwood Lake

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Green Roofs• Layers of soil and vegetation on rooftops that capture runoff

SUNY Orange, Newburgh Marist College, Poughkeepsie

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Porous Pavement• Paved surfaces that allow stormwater to infiltrate

NYS Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation, Staatsburg

Sojourner Truth Ulster Landing County Park, Saugerties

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Stream Buffer Restoration• Improves stream health, filters and slows polluted runoff, 

many other benefits

Whaley Lake Stream, BeekmanSUNY Orange, Middletown

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Other Green Infrastructure Practices

• Street trees

• Stormwater planters

Stormwater planter – bus shelter, Ardsley  Rain barrel – Greenburgh Nature Center

• Rain barrels

• Stream daylighting

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Benefits of Green Infrastructure• Manage stormwater (quality and quantity)

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Benefits of Green Infrastructure• Manage stormwater (quality and quantity)

• Recharge groundwater

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Benefits of Green Infrastructure• Manage stormwater (quality and quantity)

• Recharge groundwater

• Reduce CSOs, reduce wastewater treatment costs

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Benefits of Green Infrastructure• Manage stormwater (quality and quantity)

• Recharge groundwater

• Reduce CSOs, reduce wastewater treatment costs

• Improve watershed resiliency

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Benefits of Green Infrastructure• Manage stormwater (quality and quantity)

• Recharge groundwater

• Reduce CSOs, reduce wastewater treatment costs

• Improve watershed resiliency

• Cool urban areas –energy savings

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Benefits of Green Infrastructure• Manage stormwater (quality and quantity)

• Recharge groundwater

• Reduce CSOs, reduce wastewater treatment costs

• Improve watershed resiliency

• Cool urban areas –energy savings

• Provide wildlife habitat

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Benefits of Green Infrastructure• Manage stormwater (quality and quantity)

• Recharge groundwater

• Reduce CSOs, reduce wastewater treatment costs

• Improve watershed resiliency

• Cool urban areas –energy savings

• Provide wildlife habitat

• Improve air quality

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Benefits of Green Infrastructure• Manage stormwater (quality and quantity)

• Recharge groundwater

• Reduce CSOs, reduce wastewater treatment costs

• Improve watershed resiliency

• Cool urban areas –energy savings

• Provide wildlife habitat

• Improve air quality

• Improve human health

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Benefits of Green Infrastructure• Manage stormwater (quality and quantity)

• Recharge groundwater

• Reduce CSOs, reduce wastewater treatment costs

• Improve watershed resiliency

• Cool urban areas –energy savings

• Provide wildlife habitat

• Improve air quality

• Improve human health

• Increase land values

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Benefits of Green Infrastructure• Manage stormwater (quality and quantity)

• Recharge groundwater

• Reduce CSOs, reduce wastewater treatment costs

• Improve watershed resiliency

• Cool urban areas –energy savings

• Provide wildlife habitat

• Improve air quality

• Improve human health

• Increase land values

• Beautify neighborhoods

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Benefits at a Municipal Scale

Philadelphia40‐year strategy to deal with CSOs:

• Gray ‐ $122.0 million in benefits

• Green ‐ $2.85 billion in benefits– Save energy ($33.7 million)

– Avoid 196 fatalities from heat stress

– Increase residential property values (> $1.1 billion)

– Create > 15,000 jobs for local laborers 

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Watershed Resiliency and Climate Change

• Resilient watershed = better able to deal with and recover from extreme weather

• Reduce vulnerability of communities & ecosystems

Flooding from the Fall Kill, Poughkeepsie – Hurricane Irene

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Watershed Resiliency and Climate Change

• Manage stormwater• Protect forests, wetlands, floodplains

• Restore vegetation along streams• Replace undersized road crossings

• Move infrastructure out of floodplains

• Create partnerships, work intermunicipally

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Implementing Green Infrastructure

• Homeowners, watershed groups, neighborhoods, regional planners, businesses, and

• Municipalities

– Planning

– Codes/ordinances to encourage, incentivize, or require

– Demonstration sites SUNY Orange, Middletown

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What can you do?• Integrate green infrastructure into plans

• Climate adaptation strategies

• Review codes/ordinances

• Visit local practices

• Build demonstration projects

• Submit projects for website

• Restore stream buffers with Trees for Tribs

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NYS Department of Environmental Conservation

Emily VailWatershed Outreach Specialist [email protected]

(845) 256‐3145

Hudson River Estuary ProgramNew York State Department of Environmental Conservation

In cooperation with Cornell University NYS Water Resources Institute

New York State Water Resources Institute