David Myers

Ya i defentenly plan on trying to use Bioretention techniques, but this is not a exectly a mitigation techniques it is a stormwater solution, i need some way to extract or mitigate the heavy metals that are with in the soil and water on site, bioretention will help in preventing them to go to the stream but then they are still on site in the soil.

Bioretention is a technique that can be used in nearly any environment, including brownfields, as a water quality control. This may be getting too technical for your project, but depending on the amount of on-site contamination, I would recommend that you wrap all of your stormwater BMPs with an impermeable membrane to help control the spread of…[Read more]

i am a landscape architecture student working on my senior project, which is a brownfield site ( old glass manufacture), and curious to see if any one had unique design, mitigation techniques and or a case study i should look in to.

Larry these look to be very helpful examples of how other municipalities are implementing these strategies. Good case studies. Thanks for sharing.

you might want to check out this useful doc put out by the epa. its a lot of portland stuff but much more.. Larry Shaeffer
and add to greenstreets links list

link to Municipal Handbook Green Infrastructure
http://cfpub2.epa.gov/npdes/greeninfrastructure/munichandbook.cfm

Green Infrastructure Municipal Handbook

The Municipal Handbook is a series…[Read more]

Well I’ll be honest, I’m very jealous of what you are able to get approved out on the west coast. As of now we seem to be a bit behind the curve but we’re trying to at least catch up with you.

The majority of our office work is around the Washington D.C. metropolitan area (including northern VA and Maryland) and each municipality seems to be at…[Read more]

Well in Australia they use a broader term Water Sensitive Urban Design, as opposed to LID, which refers to 3 areas of water management (Potable Water, Waste Water and Stormwater) and how my effecting one of these you have the potential to effect the others. For instance, by reusing stormwater to irrigate landscape or flush toilets, we also reduce…[Read more]

Philip – that sounds really awesome! I’m looking forward to hearing what was shared, not only from a green streets perspective but would love to hear all about what you are doing in Australia with regards to water design.

Hi everyone. My name is PJ Benenati and I ‘m with EDAW in Alexandria, VA. I look forward to talking with you all and sharing ideas.

Our offices in Australia have been incorporating LID into the landscape for some time now. An environmental firm, called Ecological Engineering, joined with EDAW nearly 4 years ago and is now working mainly out of…[Read more]

Kevin
How can we get more aluns to sign up 🙂

It’s certainly rarefied air in here! Everything in this tower seems to be made of ivory.

Greetings all!

Tim

Grading was tough , but I’ve been doing a lot of it at work and I actually feel pretty good about it. Site Design on Monday right out of the gate at 7:45 am was brutal. Everyone was pretty much working right up to final bell. The time constraint in design is that you have to come up with a design/solution on bumwad or trace and then transfer it…[Read more]

Hey Pete! So, hows was the test? I heard from abbi that the grading was tougher than the site design, but mostly due to time constraint. You feel good about it?

I am an alum and I too got invited from a pesky persistent and awesome friend. Ask me about the meat grinder otherwise known as LARE

Hey I am not really an alum but I got an invited from a pesky persistent person P3

right on!!!! good work son…

Also, try to invite alumni to the group that are not yet on Land8Lounge. I don’t have a lot of people’s email addresses, and it would be cool to get in contact with some of the alumni that may have moved out of the area!

Hey guys, how are you all doing?!?!

I thought this would be a good way of keeping in touch with each-other and letting everyone know when things are going on. Feel free to post and stay in touch!