2014 Green Streets-Green Jobs-Green Towns Grantees
Low Impact Development Center, Inc.,$46,935
Cherrywood Lane Green and Complete Streets Design
Prince George’s County, MD
This project will prepare a green street concept retrofit design for Cherrywood Lane in Greenbelt. Its 66-acre drainage area is 65 percent impervious and results in 45 million gallons of runoff a year. The objective of this project is to reduce pollution into Indian Creek, provide a safer route for all transportation modes, and improve pedestrian and bicycle access to Greenbelt Metro Station.
Wrightsville Borough, $47,118
Front Street Green Retrofit (Wrightsville Riverfront Park Revitalization)
York County,Pennsylvania
Green streetscape improvements such as the introduction of green space with street trees, curb extensions with bioretention and natural plantings as well as pedestrian and aesthetic improvements are proposed as part of the Front Street Green Retrofit. These improvements will fulfill the recommendations of the Wrightsville Borough Comprehensive Plan by providing environmental benefits to the adjacent Susquehanna River and continue the economic revitalization efforts for this area.
Town of Marydel, $47,460
Marydel Green Initiatives Concept Plan
Caroline County, MD
This project will identify opportunities for the implementation of BMPs to address problems associated with nonpoint source pollution within the Upper Choptank River Watershed. This grant will cover an analysis of existing site conditions, and develop a formal Green Initiatives Concept Plan. A secondary goal is to use the identification, design, and implementation of BMPs to engage the public in water quality improvement and healthy lifestyle projects.
The American Society of Landscape Architects Library and Educational Advocacy Fund, $47,600 Chinatown Green Street Demonstration Project
Washington, DC
The Chinatown Green Street Demonstration Project integrates low impact development techniques with community-oriented design to create an interconnected series of green streets. This project will exceed the minimum stormwater requirements using innovative technologies; improve pedestrian, vehicular, and bike circulation; and create aesthetically pleasing streets to enhance the livability for visitors, workers, and residents.
Borough of Gettysburg, $47,262
Gettysburg Inner Loop - Race Horse Alley
Adams County, Pennsylvania
This project is part of a larger bicycle trail project-The Gettysburg Inner Loop.With this funding, the grantee will design a permeable surface system (replacing impermeable macadam), as well as create rain gardens and foliage buffers to collect and cleanse runoff before it reaches the adjacent Stevens Run. Additional trees and shrubs will be added, transforming the alley into a hybrid environmental bicycle/pedestrian greenway.
Marshall-Wythe School of Law Foundation, William & Mary Law School, $25,000
Go Green, Save Money: Lowering Flood Insurance Rates with Green Infrastructure
James City County, Virginia
This project will research waysto better explain how Virginia localities, by participating more fully in FEMA's Community Rating System (CRS) program and generating credits for open space and stormwater improvements, can simultaneously better protect their citizens against flooding risks, improve environmental protection, create more sustainable communities, and generate flood insurance discounts for policyholders.
City of Lancaster, $100,000
North Marshall Green Infrastructure Project
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
The North Marshall Green Infrastructure project includes new porous concrete sidewalk and traffic calming measures to improve pedestrian safety, infiltrate stormwater and allow existing trees to be saved; curb extensions bioretention areas provide space for additional planting and stormwater infiltration as well as narrow the roadway pavement to reduce vehicle speeding; pervious pavers in an adjacent alley for further stormwater control; and plant new trees on adjoining streets to increase tree canopy.
Town of Bethel, $100,000
Bethel Gardens on Broad Creek
Sussex County, Delaware
Thisgrant will help the town of Bethel implement green infrastructure and green street practices to reduce flooding and provide water quality treatment, as well as reduce erosion to the banks of the Broad Creek in critical locations.The project includes implementation of bioretention areas, Filterra units, as well as erosion and sediment control measures.
City of Charlottesville, $182,035
Charlottesville High School Green Stormwater Infrastructure Retrofit
Albemarle County, Virginia
The city of Charlottesville will convert 26,000 square feet of asphalt to permeable pavers, bioretention, and restored forest while treating runoff from three acres of the Charlottesville High School campus. In addition to treating pollutants and reducing stormwater runoff, the project will provide educational opportunities for CHS and the community at large.
Federal City Council, $25,000
Improving a Model for Enhanced Stormwater Management in Urban Areas
Washington, DC
This project explores the potential supply and demand of the District Department of the Environment's Stormwater Retention Credit trading market to facilitate an effective market that achieves promised water quality and social objectives. If successful, it will accelerate the pace of water quality improvements in local waterways and variations on the model could be replicated in other urban areas in the Bay watershed and across the nation.
Low Impact Development Center, Inc., $24,999
How to Integrate Green Highways and Green Streets into Climate Change Resiliency Plans for Local Governments in the Chesapeake Bay Region
Washington, DC
This grant will provide training opportunitiesto inform community representatives, regulators, resource protection agencies, and stakeholders on strategies that can be used to measure the effectiveness of green highways and green streets projects to meet urban heat island reduction, flood reduction, and water quality goals. The participants will learn how to rank and prioritize goals against key metrics, develop strategies to leverage funding, understand the economic value of stormwater retrofit credits, develop programs for outreach, and monitor and report on progress.
American Rivers, $24,865
Evaluating Opportunities to Leverage the Benefits of Urban Agriculture and Green Infrastructure for Communities in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Washington, DC
Urban agriculture and green infrastructure both create and conserve green space in urban areas. Integrating these types of projects leverage their complimentary purposes and result in additional community benefits. Through this grant, American Rivers will examine the potential opportunities and limitations of combining these approaches within municipal programs in specific Chesapeake Bay communities, specifically Baltimore, Maryland, Lancaster and York, Pennsylvania.
Reservoir Hill Improvement Council, $58,010
Reservoir Hill Tree Canopy Project
Baltimore City, MD
This grant will connect Reservoir Hill residents to tree planting resources, expertise, and information. Tree canopy expansion has served as an excellent opportunity for the Reservoir Hill Improvement Council to engage with neighborhood residents and represents some of the most visible expressions of Reservoir Hill's commitment to greening,
City of College Park, $80,960
Rhode Island Ave Green Street Implementation
Prince George’s County, MD
This project will result in the design and construction of two 70-foot bioswales along Rhode Island Avenue to enhance water quality, improve area aesthetics, and provide an educational experience for College Park Trolley Trail users and neighborhood residents. In total, the features are expected to provide a 26,930 gallon per year reduction in stormwater volume to the highly urbanized Indian Creek.
Mount Vernon-Belvedere Association, $10,000
Mount Vernon-Belvedere Tree Pit Creation and Expansion Project
Baltimore City, MD
Through this grant, the Mount Vernon-Belvedere Association will remove sidewalk to create 40 new tree pits and expand 40 existing pits. The neighborhood association is also working to improve tree canopy by partnering with Baltimore City to remove dead trees and stumps and organize tree planting and maintenance events.
Parks & People Foundation, $250,000
Pigtown Area Tree Planting Project
Baltimore City, MD
After conducting a thorough survey of existing tree pits within the general ""Pigtown"" area of Baltimore, this grant will fund the addition of new trees (both in existing pits and with creation of new tree pits), as well as stump and dead tree removal.
Town of Betterton, $91,045
Greener Wheeler Avenue Project
Kent County, MD
This grant will help the town of Betterton design and start implementation for a green Wheeler Avenue that would aesthetically slow stormwater flow andfilter permeated rainwater, as well as encourages non-vehicular traffic patterns.
Patterson Park Neighborhood Association, $250,000
Greening Partnership of Patterson Park Spring 2014
Baltimore City, MD
This grant will provide community training on stormwater issues and opportunities for stormwater reduction/treatment; develop community-level BMPs such as bioretention bump-outs and enhanced tree pits; and institute stump/dead tree removal, tree pit creation/expansion, and tree installation. This project will also fund a community initiative to address trash removal, and provide education on the proper disposal of garbage.
City of Hagerstown - Department of Parks & Engineering, $170,000
Tree Planting and Memorial Boulevard Greening
Washington County, MD
With this funding, the city of Hagerstown will continue to increase its tree canopy with city-wide street tree plantings as well as remove bituminous paving on Memorial Boulevard and replace it with landscaped islands and medians to reduce runoff from roadway surfaces.
Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, Inc., $249,913
400 E. Pratt Street Streetscape Improvement Project
Baltimore City, MD
The Downtown Partnership is implementing effective stormwater management practices such as tree planting and stormretention cells to improve the urban landscape of Pratt Street, one of Baltimore's most significant streets. This project will also lower the level of pollutants emitted into the Baltimore Harbor and educate the community about sustainability stewardship.
Town of Forest Heights, $202,940
Rolph Drive Green Street Implementation
Prince George’s County, MD
The Rolph Drive Green Street project was undertaken to alleviate roadway flooding, increase pedestrian accessibility and decrease stormwater run-off on a residential street in Forest Heights. The project includes upgrading curbing, adding a community underdrain adjacent to the curb line, upgrading the driveway entrances, and adding inlets to prevent street flooding on the existing roadway. The project also includes a rain garden to collect adjacent runoff, tree box filters to treat stormwater quality, and a permeable concrete sidewalk to promote a walkable community.
Baltimore Tree Trust, $220,520
Trees for Public Health
Baltimore City, MD
With this grant, the Baltimore Tree Trust will continue planting trees in the McElderry Park neighborhood which will more than double tree canopy cover by 2015. In addition, BTT will conduct a tree inventory of another high priority neighborhood and plan and implement TPH's next tree planting effort.
Blue Water Baltimore, $224,535
Improving Tree Health and Canopy in CREATES Neighborhoods
Baltimore City, MD
With this grant, Blue Water Baltimore will work to improve the health of 490 trees by ensuring that those trees have adequate tree pit size. This project includes the removal of 18,000 square feet of concrete so that new trees will reside in homes with greater exposed soil.
City of Cambridge Department of Public Works-Planning and Zoning, $399,560
The Greening of Long Wharf
Dorchester County, MD
The City of Cambridge, in partnership with the University of Maryland’s Landscape Architecture students, prepared preliminary concept designs to address improvements to stormwater that drains directly into the Choptank River. This grant will explore those opportunities to determine the best implementation plan as part of a design-build grant.
Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection & Sustainability, $15,000
Baltimore County Delvale Ave Tree Planting Project
Baltimore County, MD
Baltimore County's Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability will work with the Dundalk Renaissance Corporation, the Department of Public Works, and Baltimore County Public Schools on the placement, installation, and upkeep of 67 landscape-grade trees along a portion of Delvale Avenue in front of Norwood Elementary and Holabird Middle schools in Dundalk.
City of Mount Rainier, $242,500
Buchanan Green Street Project
Prince George’s County, MD
The Buchanan Green Street project is designed to reduce stormwater flows into the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River, promote groundwater infiltration, expand the tree canopy and native plantings, and enhance bicyclist accessibility and safety. The site experiences regular flooding and standing water due to inadequate drainage and this grant will fundthe construction of a bioretention cell on Buchanan Street.
City of College Park, $150,886
Hollywood Gateway Wind & Weather Park
Prince George’s County, MD
This project will result in the construction of a neighborhood park that will enhance pedestrian connectivity, create a gateway to the neighborhood, provide recreation opportunities, improve water quality and increase awareness about sustainability through educational displays and interpretive signage.
Town of Easton, $13,557
Easton Street Tree Planting Project
Talbot County, MD
This project aims to reduce pollutant loading associated with urban sector stormwater, and to help the town of Easton double the number of new street trees to be planted in an effort to increase Easton’s tree canopygoal to 40 percent.
University of Maryland College Park, $45,154
Branch Avenue Urban Garden
Prince George’s County, MD
This grant will fund the creation of an urban garden to provide local families with fresh, accessible and affordable produce and be connected to a network that includes residents, master gardeners and education/training. In particular, the grantee will remove asphalt, install permeable pavers, construct beds,plant trees and create a green roof toolshed as low impact development, green infrastructure stormwater control techniques.
Izaak Walton League of America, $139,370
Lands Green, Waters Clean Neighborhoods
Montgomery County, MD
Demonstration conservation landscapes, rain gardens and canopy tree plantings will be installed at 12 homes in four targeted neighborhoods in the Muddy Branch Watershed in Montgomery County. Participating homeowners will help project partners conduct outreach to neighbors and approximately 80 homeowners will receive personalized technical assistance to achieve a total of 49,000 square feet of bioretention on private property.
Blue Water Baltimore, $114,342
Greening Watershed Neighborhoods
Baltimore City, MD
Blue Water Baltimore will increase the rate of tree planting in targeted city and county neighborhoods through a combination of incentives, labor, and community influence to increase the rate of yard tree planting. This program builds on previous private property efforts and combines Blue Water’s Urban Forestry and Water Audit programs.
Boy Scouts of America Venturing Crew 202, $25,000
Warfield Complex Tree Planting
Carroll County, MD
The project seeks to plant native trees on the Warfield Development Corporation to increase watershed protection and tree canopy in the Sykesville area. The trees will sequester carbon from the atmosphere, provide shade to visitors of the complex, protect local streams, and increase the aesthetic qualities of the area.
Civic Works, Inc., 50,000
Real Food Farm - Perlman Place
Baltimore City, MD
This project will take an area that was once vacant rowhomes and remove 3,000 square feet of impervious surface and install a bioretention area that will promote absorption of stormwater and decreaseflow to the city stormwater drains. The impervious removal and bioretention area will also serve as a tool to engage students, volunteers, and visitors in experiential education.
Gunpowder Valley Conservancy, $20,708
2014 Reforestation Campaign
Baltimore County, MD
The Gunpowder Valley Conservancy will plant trees for streamside forest buffers and upland reforestation in the Loch Raven Reservoir watershed. Our main objective is to mobilize volunteers to plant more than 1,000 at four site locations. This project will also educate volunteers about environmental benefits and how tree plantings help protect the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay.