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volunteer day
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Date
April
20th, 2010
Time
8:00AM-5:00PM
(or 4hr time blocks)
Location
245
West 74th Street, New York, NY
10023
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Greetings!
Volunteers needed
for clean water!!
Soil and Water
Conservation District has a pilot project on
storm water capture planters. The project,
installed last summer, needs replacement of
soils. We are seeking volunteers who like
physical outdoor work while helping improve the
water quality of the city's waterways (like the
Hudson River).
No experience
necessary but we ask that only people who are in
good health and physical condition
participate. This work will be conducted on
Tuesday April 20 between 8AM and 4PM. You
can volunteer 3 hours or the entire 8
hours. The tasks are:
1. Help dig
french drains. This involves digging and
removing 2 cubic yards of clay soil with buckets
and hauling it in buckets out of the yard via a
flight of stairs.
2. Help unload gravel
and sand. This involves carrying buckets of sand
(3 cubic yards) and gravel (2 cubic yards) down
the flight of stairs and into the backyard to
fill the excavated areas.
3. Mix and
fill planters with soil. This involves mixing
the sand and peat components and fill the
planters.
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information
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Date: April 20th,
2010
Time: 8:00AM-5:00PM (or 4hr time
blocks)
Location: 245 West 74th Street, New
York, NY
10023
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about the
project
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Stormwater capture
planters
The Combined Sewer
Overflow (CSO) system discharges 27 billion
gallons of untreated wastewater annually into
waterways of New York City and remains the major
impediment to meeting water quality
standards. Land surfaces covered by
concrete and asphalt as well as our system
designed to whisk rainwater promptly into the
sewer system together results in these CSO
discharges when it rains. With the Mayor's
release of the Sustainable Stormwater Management
Plan, source control measures (catching rain
where it falls - a.k.a. Low Impact Development
or Stormwater Best Management Practices) are now
considered viable alternatives to civil
engineering solutions in abating CSO
discharges. While the City has launched a
series of LID pilot projects on public land, in
order for LIDs to be effective, they must be
widely installed including on private properties
which make up more than a quarter of the land
area of the city.
The NYC Soil
& Water Conservation District is part of a
nationwide system of 3000 districts. We assist
New Yorkers and local decision makers in making
wise use of New York City's soil, water and
related resources. The District has taken an
active role in stormwater management.
With a small grant we installed an
LID on a private property at a co-op on the
Upper West side of Manhattan as a demonstration
project. We designed and built large
stormwater capture planters to be placed on top
of an existing paved backyard. This project
serves as an awareness and education tool about
stormwater for private property residents and as
pilot for the other 2 sites that we are
designing and installing this year.
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