Pier 5 BCEQ Pop Up Wetland Work approved by PARKS
May 14th, 2017 Posted in Define the Issues, Environmental Reviews, Lower Concourse North, Permits
This goes to the use of the park. The Bronx Council for Environmental Quality applied for a grant and built this project. We needed to get approval from Parks, the owner of the land.
Here are the permits, and below is the explanation of what we did.
Construction Permit: X-9-13NF Tams
Research Permit: Westphal_permit_2012 (1)
Pier 5 Pop Up Wetland and Plants –Cleans the Water that Runs off the Highway
This extraordinarily creative “best management practice” captures stormwater runoff from the elevated Major Deegan Expressway with a “pop-up wetland”. The wetland is filled with ordinary native plants which remove pollutants, allowing clean water to drain to the river. Rain passes through a large pipe into a first flush basin, then to the wetland with overflow into the prairie meadow.
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