Bronx Council for Environmental Quality

Fort Independence Park into a Sponge Packet

Help turn Fort Independence Park into a sponge!

Enter the Park into Sponge Contest at parkintosponge@bceq.org with your name, phone, & affiliation or if it is school project, your professor/teacher. Provide a short description of your ideas and the method of your presentation.  You will be expected to give a 5-minute talk on the design.  Be the City’s imagination and prepare Green Infrastructure drawings based on the photos of runoff damage supplied in the registration packet.  Or use your own park and take your own photos and prepare GI to turn your Park into a Sponge.

Here are the erosion details that need to be fixed:

Help turn Fort Independence Park into a sponge

Help turn Fort Independence Park into a sponge

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