Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway announced the winners of the Flushing and Gowanus Green Infrastructure Grant Initiative. The five winning applicants were awarded a total of $2.6 million to implement innovative green infrastructure projects to manage and capture stormwater runoff during wet weather in order improve harbor water quality

The five awardees are as follows:

* Manhattan College: $660,440 for the installation of a modular green roof project on New York Hospital. It will be designed to control runoff from a 1 to 1.5-inch rainfall on a half acre roof.
* Columbia University: $389,187 for a Greenstreets stormwater capture system in Rego Park that will remove nearly 2,500 square feet of impervious surface and replace it with permeable pavement and vegetation to capture runoff from a three acre-watershed.
* Regional Plan Association: $600,000 for Sponge Park bioretention basins under the Long Island Expressway near the Van Wyck Expressway. One is 1,963 square feet and has the capacity to store approximately 34,000 gallons from a 2 inch rainstorm, and the second is approximately 9,900 square feet and has the capacity to store approximately 170,000 gallons.
* Gowanus Canal Conservancy: $583,470 for the 6th Street Green Corridor Project that will build seven curbside swales ranging from 400 square feet to 1,200 square feet along 6th Street and 2nd Avenue in Brooklyn. The project will capture approximately 40% of the runoff generated within the seven-swale area, which is over 45,000 square feet of street and sidewalk surfaces.
* Unisphere, Inc.: $386,551 for treatment wetlands and rain gardens for treating stormwater entering Meadow Lake. This project will construct two 5,000-square-foot treatment wetlands that will receive runoff from two one-acre portions of a parking area at the southwestern edge of Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Each treatment system is designed to capture over 36,000 gallons for each 1 to 1.5-inch rainstorm or a total of over 72,000 gallons for each storm

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Posted by mopeng at July 9, 2010 4:27 PM