Save the Rain Salina Green Streets Project Community Meeting, 25% Design March 5, 2019
J. Ryan McMahon, II County Executive
Meeting Objectives and Project Goals • Introduce project • Familiarize community with project scope • Gather feedback from the community
• Identify stakeholders • Discuss the best way to provide project updates
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Presentation Timeline Stormwater Management Save the Rain Salina Green Street Project
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Presentation Timeline Stormwater Management Save the Rain Salina Green Street Project
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Onondaga County Save the Rain
Stormwater “Rainwater or melted snow that runs off streets, lawns and other sites� U.S. EPA In natural areas, this stormwater is absorbed into the soil or flows into bodies of water 5
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Savetherain.us
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Traditional combined treatment = expensive
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Key Takeaways Urban areas have disrupted the natural water cycle
Impervious surfaces can lead to flooding, contamination and combined sewer overflows Treating stormwater in combined facilities is costly and resource (energy use) intensive
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Presentation Timeline Stormwater Management Save the Rain Salina Green Street Project
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Save the Rain Consent Judgement – 1989 • Alleged violations of State and Federal water pollution control laws • Onondaga County held responsible for portion of pollution • Performed series of studies to evaluate need for upgrading Metro and to treat CSOs Amended Consent Judgement (ACJ) – 1998 • Framework to upgrade Metro and address CSOs • Focused on conventional gray infrastructure • Planned to build a number of regional treatment facilities (RTFs)
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Gray Infrastructure “Includes the pipes, pumps, ditches, and detention ponds engineered by people to manage stormwater� Soil Science Society of America
Designed to move water away from the built environment
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Save the Rain 4th Stipulation of the ACJ – 2009 • Combined use of gray and green infrastructure solutions • Plans to construct more RTF’s halted • Save the Rain was born! • Onondaga County’s “better way forward”
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Gray
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Gray Infrastructure Projects Capture 469,000,000 gallons of CSO volume/year
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Green Infrastructure “Projects that draw from nature to achieve stormwater management” Soil Science Society of America
Vegetation Soils Natural Processes “…reduces and treats stormwater at its source while delivering environmental, social and economic benefits” U.S. EPA
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“Plants, not pipes” Low Impact Development – A Design Manual for Urban Areas
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Green Infrastructure Projects Capture 171,000,000 gallons of CSO volume/year
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Over 220 GI Projects
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Green Infrastructure in Project Area
Barnabas Center Demo Project, Beauchamp Library, Hughes Magnet School Parking Lot and Vacant Lot, Salina Post Office, Dunbar Association, Syracuse Model Neighborhood Corp., Salina Shoe Company Inc., People’s AME Zion Church Parking Lot, People’s Community Development Corporation and Café Sankofa Cooperative 22
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Green Streets in Project Area
South Salina, Elk Street, Moore Avenue, McKinley Avenue, Roney Lane and South 24 State Street
STR Goals Control stormwater Prevent sewage overflows
Keep Onondaga Lake Clean Water quality Percent stormwater capture
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Save the Rain Funding for the community • Green Infrastructure Fund Rain Barrel Giveaway Green Infrastructure Projects Save the Rain in the Schools
Partnerships • Baltimore Woods • The MOST • Onondaga Earth Corps • CCE 27
Onondaga Earth Corps is Hiring!! • Young Adult Crew (18-25) • Youth Crew (15-18) • Upcoming information sessions: • March 5 • Deadline to apply • March 15
Pick up informational flyer today!
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Save the Rain Pre STR 74% of combined sewage and stormwater flows were captured 25% of this flow was untreated Post STR 97.7% of combined sewage and stormwater flows are now captured Exceeded mandated stormwater capture goal (95%)
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Green Infrastructure
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Slow, Spread, Soak
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Tree Planting
Rain Garden Rain Barrel
Green Roof
Porous Pavement 32
46,000 pounds of trash removed from Inner Harbor in 2017
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Onondaga Lake is experiencing a remarkable recovery
Water quality in Onondaga Lake is the best it’s been in 100 years!
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Benchmarking Phosphorus and Chlorophyll Dissolved Oxygen
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Over 53 species of fish documented
Return of Bald Eagles
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Photo Credit: Nicholas Lisi / The Post-Standard
Key Takeaways Save the Rain uses green and gray infrastructure to help capture stormwater before it reaches our combined sewer system 640,000,000 gallons/year captured through Save the Rain The Connect the Drops program is focused on keeping litter out of Onondaga Lake As a result of Save the Rain and other lake cleanup projects, Onondaga Lake is the cleanest it has been in over 100 years
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Presentation Timeline Stormwater Management Save the Rain Salina Green Street Project
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Why South Salina Street? • Area is located in a high discharging CSO basin (CSO 060/077) – On average 22 discharges and 7 million gallons of CSO discharge in a year
• High concentration of impervious (paved), non-natural areas on South Salina Street contribute to increased overflows
CSO 060/077
South Salina Street Green Corridor • Onondaga County received $1.2M grant from NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation in 2017 for the project • Work will be from East Colvin Street to East Newell Street • 5.3 million gallons of stormwater runoff reduced
South Salina Street Green Corridor
Salina between Colvin and Elk
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Salina between Colvin and Elk Restored Sidewalk Flexible Porous Pavement
Tree Trench with New Trees and Porous Pavers
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Flexible Porous Pavement
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Tree Trench
Credit: North Carolina DEQ
Credit: DeepRoot
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Tree Trench
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Tree Trench
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Salina between Elk and McKinley
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Salina between Elk and McKinley Porous Pavers and Infiltration Bed
Restored Sidewalk Tree Trench with New Trees and Porous Pavers
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Porous Pavers
Credit: Pine Hall Brick
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Porous Pavers
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Salina between McKinley and Amherst
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Salina between McKinley and Amherst Restored Sidewalk New Trees Where Possible
Porous Pavers and Infiltration Bed
Tree Trench with New Trees and Porous Pavers
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Salina Between Amherst and Warner
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Salina Between Amherst and Warner Bioswale with Trees
Porous Pavers with Subsurface Infiltration Bed
New Trees Where Possible
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Bioswale
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Salina between Warner and Brighton
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Salina between Warner and Brighton New Sidewalk New Trees
Brick Pavers on top of Underground Infiltration Trench
New Trees Where Possible
Porous Pavers with Subsurface Infiltration
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Salina between Brighton and Lafayette
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Salina between Brighton and Lafayette Porous Pavers
Tree Trench with Modular Tree Cells, New Trees, and Porous Pavers
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Salina between Lafayette and Corning
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Salina between Lafayette and Corning Underground Infiltration Trench
New Trees Where Possible
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Underground Infiltration Trench
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Salina between Corning and Newell
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Salina between Corning and Newell Bioswale with New Trees
Underground Infiltration Trench
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South Salina Street Green Corridor • Targeted Schedule – Design work in 2019 – Construction beginning in spring 2020
• Future Community Meetings – As design is refined – Prior to construction – Stakeholder meetings with businesses
Zachary.Monge@jacobs.com
SueFassler@ongov.net Follow Save the Rain
J. Ryan McMahon, II County Executive