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358: 237: 612: 467:. This watershed encompasses parts of Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties. In specific, it is made up of the following municipalities: Easttown, Tredyffrin, Aldan, Clifton Heights, Collingdale, Colwyn, Darby, East Lansdowne, Folcroft, Glenolden, Haverford, Lansdowne, Marple, Millbourne, Morton, Newtown, Norwood, Prospect Park, Radnor, Ridley Park, Ridley, Rutledge, Sharon Hill, Springfield, Tinicum, Upper Darby, Yeadon, Lower Merion, and Narberth. 26: 1082: 746:. This system assists experts in planning responses to pollution and sends notifications via telephone and email to alert safety officials when these spills have occurred. The warning system was created as a part of the Source Water Protection program. It runs from the Delaware Water Gap to Wilmington, Delaware, and sounds alarms when events such as spills or flooding occur. 1105:

pollution from the streets jeopardizes the cleanliness of these rivers. The department has been focusing on how to use green infrastructure that stores stormwater and releases it into the sewers gradually in order to minimize these events. Philadelphia Water aims to protect the watershed with Green Stormwater Infrastructure and create a more environmentally friendly city.

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streets and the roofs of buildings. The increased land development leads to more impervious surfaces and causes an increase in stormwater runoff and consequently combined sewer overflows. CSOs endanger the quality of Philadelphia's watersheds because they result in the pollution of rivers and streams.

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that create stormwater runoff in high volumes, burdening the city's sewer system. It provides them with funds to revamp their properties to better practice green stormwater management. The property owner or tenant with permission from the property owner must apply for this grant. The most competitive

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by the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) for the aforementioned "Delaware Valley Early Warning System – Tidal Spill Trajectory Tool." This award was given to the department for the innovation the system showed as well as the public safety benefits this customized web-based system presented, as

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decided a source of water was needed to cleanse the streets, fight fires, and perform household chores. While a number of private water companies had been established in other cities by that time, Philadelphia, with its city-owned and financed system, was one of the first in the U.S. to take on water

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would all flow underground into the same pipe. When a high level of water threatened the pipes' integrity, they structured these pipes to overflow into the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers in an event called a combined sewer overflow (CSO). In these circumstances, the sewage content in these pipes and

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equipment to estimate the number of fish in the rivers. They also collect anadromous fish and donate a few to biologists from the PFBC, who check the fish for hatchery tags that mark fish released from hatcheries and distinguish them from fish born in the wild. Having a ratio of hatchery-raised fish

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After the works at Fairmount were decommissioned in 1911, the buildings were retrofitted to house first an aquarium, and later a swimming pool. The restored complex, listed on the National Historic Register, now houses the educational and historical exhibits of the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive

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In December 2011, in alignment with the city's Greenworks Philadelphia initiative, Philadelphia Water signed an agreement to incorporate biogas cogeneration into their Northeast Water Pollution Control Plant, as one of the first adopters in the nation of this system. The project cost $ 47.5 million

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Chapter's Planning excellence Award in Implementation. The following year on March 31, 2015, Green City, Clean Waters won the APA National Planning Excellence Award for Implementation. The award recognized the positive changes that have taken place in the city as a result of the program's planning

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Philadelphia tracks the number of water main breaks that occur in 1,000 miles of main. The company uses a five-year moving average to smooth out the effect of weather variations. Based on historical information dating back to 1930, the average for 2001 was 212 breaks for every 1,000 miles of main–

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sets primary and secondary standards for drinking water. Each Philadelphian uses an average of 80 to 100 gallons of water per day; the city's three modern water treatment plants have a combined, design-rated capacity to treat 540 million gallons of water per day. While there is some variation

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This watershed drains about 64 square miles and is 24% impervious. It includes areas of Montgomery and Philadelphia counties, as well as another 15 municipalities which include Abington, Ambler, Cheltenham, Horsham, Lansdale, Lower Gwynedd, Montgomery, North Wales, Springfield, Upper Dublin, Upper

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were in service in Philadelphia; today the system includes just under 3,000 miles of pipes. Most of these sewers emptied directly into the nearest river or stream, resulting in massive pollution of the waterways in and around the city. While water filtration made the polluted river water safe to

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The contribution of direct drainage to the Delaware River from Philadelphia itself is very small, spanning only about 40 square miles of the city. The area directly considered the Delaware watershed is estimated to be 72% impervious surfaces within Philadelphia. The residences along the Delaware

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Green City, Clean Waters involves the installment of various soil-water-plant systems that will filter contaminants out of stormwater, returning some of it to the ground, releasing some to the air, and some slowly back into the sewer system. This process targets impervious city surfaces such as

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Green City, Clean Waters is a 25-year plan to protect and enhance watersheds through stormwater management and green stormwater infrastructure (GSI). Philadelphia Water developed Green City, Clean Waters to confront environmental, demographic and financial challenges. Green City, Clean Waters

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of the water supply beginning in 1914, resulted in a dramatic decrease in the incidence of water-borne diseases. The Torresdale Filter Plant (now the Samuel S. Baxter Water Treatment Plant) and the Lardner's Point Pumping Station, which delivered filtered water into the city's vast network of

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on human health but the program's driving factor is the reduction of combined sewer overflows (CSOs). By capturing and infiltrating stormwater using green stormwater infrastructure such as rain gardens, swales, and stormwater tree trenches the system works to mitigate flooding and erosion in

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This grant program Greened Acre Retrofit Program (GARP) provides funds that help to offset the cost of stormwater projects built by contractors across properties in Philadelphia's combined sewer area. GARP funding is typically awarded to companies or project aggregators with plans to build a

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The Source Water Protection Program includes partnerships that traverse city boundaries. Philadelphia Water began this program in 1999 when the Office of Watersheds was created. The Delaware and Schuylkill rivers each make up about half of the Philadelphia area's drinking water supply, and

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Another part of this initiative is to effectively utilize wastewater for energy and nutrients. A Philadelphia-based company called NovaThermal Energy partnered with Philadelphia Water on a project that warms a building with heat derived from sewage. This building is the

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Water Treatment Plant. In 1914 the city, under state mandate, developed a comprehensive plan for the treatment and collection of sewage, with three treatment plants and hundreds of miles of large intercepting sewers to keep pollution out of rivers and streams.

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This watershed drains about 22 square miles and 38% of its surface area is impervious. It includes areas of Philadelphia, Bucks, and Montgomery counties, and 4 additional municipalities called Lower Moreland, Bensalem, Lower Southampton, and Upper Southampton.

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In 2014, greenSTEM worked with students to design innovative soil-moisture monitoring systems for their school gardens called Root Kits. Students could view soil moisture data online at www.greenstemnetwork.org and determine when gardens needed to be watered.

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Originally constructed for ponding of the river for water supply and for waterpower, Fairmount Dam no longer is needed for waterpower, but it continues to serve the city by providing a water supply storage area for two pumping stations with intakes on the

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In order to complete the project the city partnered with Ameresco Inc., a company based in Massachusetts that specializes in energy efficiency and infrastructure upgrades for North American facilities. The plant's renovations were completed in 2014.

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This watershed drains about 33 square miles and has about 48% impervious surface areas. Its reach includes parts of Philadelphia and Montgomery counties, as well as five municipalities: Abington, Cheltenham, Jenkintown, Rockledge, and Springfield.

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stormwater management plan on properties in Philadelphia's combined sewer service area that hover around or above 10 acres in project size. The most competitive applications for these grants request around $ 90,000 or less per impervious acre.

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Certain studies have shown that green infrastructure may significantly reduce crime in areas they are implemented over time. 'The Impact of Green Stormwater Infrastructure Installation on Surrounding Health and Safety' was published in the

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system utilizes a water source heat pump complete with a filtration device to transfer heat energy from the sewage channels that are already in the ground, unlike costly geothermal wells which must be dug for a similar heating process.

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in Philadelphia were installed in the 1800s. Philadelphia Water currently maintains 3,200 miles of water mains that can be classified into three distinct sections of mains: transmission mains, distribution mains, and service mains.

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control plants: Southwest, Southeast and Northeast Water Pollution Control Plants. In these facilities, a combined average of 471 million gallons of wastewater is cleaned and discharged into the Delaware River every day.

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were added to Fairmount between 1851 and 1871. By this time, several other pumping steam-powered stations were operating to serve various parts of the city, drawing water from the Schuylkill River, Delaware River,

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This watershed is about 2,000 square miles and is 10% impervious. The Schuylkill watershed includes areas of 11 counties such as the Schuylkill, Berks, Montgomery, Chester, Philadelphia, Carbon, Lehigh, Lebanon,

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Currently, the Northeast Water Pollution Control Plant is able to meet 85% of its electrical requirements for plant operations using biogas cogeneration. In this process, sludge digesters at the plant fuel the

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program launched in 2012, as a combined effort of Philadelphia Water and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC). The mission of the grants program is to reduce the price of installing

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the water is under. Millions of gallons of water can flow from a single break. In order to get the break under control, the water is shut off and the section of pipe that ruptured is replaced.

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efforts. Green City, Clean Waters completed 113 projects that implemented green stormwater infrastructure in the time leading up to this award and were in the process of designing 187 more.

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works in collaboration with the Philadelphia Water on this project. There are four different property tools available through this program that the department helps property owners install.

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The plant has been praised for its on-site production of electricity from waste, which allows for the avoidance of the electricity losses that would otherwise take place from transmission.

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drawn from the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers so that it is safe for drinking, and deliver it to customers. The second is to collect and treat wastewater (i.e., sewage) that flows into the

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Philadelphia Water Department Belmont Pumping Station, built 1900, Martin Luther King, Jr., Drive at Montgomery Drive, Philadelphia, PA. View from the parking lot, looking north, with the

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form shallow depressions that are designed to absorb water that runs directly off of roofs, and can prevent hundreds of gallons of water per year from entering the city's sewer systems.

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supply as a municipal responsibility. Water was piped throughout the city, with paying customers served by direct lines to businesses and houses, and free water provided through public

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and water quality sensors that analyze and provide data to craft models that can project the downstream spread and estimated arrival of pollution caused by spills, accidents, and

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The primary mission of the department is the planning, operation and maintenance of both the physical infrastructure and the organized personnel needed to provide high quality

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in March 2015. The 12-year study showed a significant correlation between the drop in crime rates in certain areas and the implementation of green stormwater infrastructure.

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sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the School District of Philadelphia, as a collaboration between Philadelphia Water and civic hackers from Code for Philly.

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The department pioneered the installation of the Fairmount Dam Fishway in the Schuylkill River in 2008. The fishway allows shad to migrate up the Schuylkill River to

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These projects are intended to help Philadelphians contribute to their city- by filtering stormwater runoff that would otherwise end up polluting streams and rivers.

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In 1923, the Northeast Sewage Treatment Plant opened along the Delaware River, but implementation of the rest of the comprehensive system was delayed by the onset of

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Philadelphia Water Department developed some green initiatives, including "Biogas Cogeneration," "Green City, Clean Waters," and "Green Stormwater Infrastructure."

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and surrounding waterways. The two types of programs offered are Stormwater Management Incentives Program (SMIP) and the Greened Acre Retrofit Program (GARP).

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Despite being criticized for the low quality of its drinking water in 2011, the department has won numerous awards for its devotion to drinking water quality.

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The Pennypack Watershed drains about 56 miles of Philadelphia and 33% of its surface area is impervious. Areas that belong to this water shed include parts of

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was opened. Steam engines pumped water up to reservoirs on top of the hill (which was the largest hill close to the city, and the current location of the

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to operate the pumps, resulting in a vast improvement in cost and efficiency over steam powered pumping, which was abandoned at Fairmount. Water-powered

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for all domestic, commercial, and industrial requirements, and to manage wastewater and stormwater to protect and improve the quality of the region's

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was also noted to traverse Philadelphia's waters. There are numerous native fish species within the Delaware Estuary and Philadelphia's freshwater

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Center of the Philadelphia Water Department. The entire site, which also includes a restaurant and a restored historic landscape, is now part of

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Philadelphia has three drinking water treatment plants — Samuel S. Baxter on the Delaware River and Queen Lane and Belmont on the Schuylkill.

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projects allow owners to replace their impermeable pavement with surfaces that allow stormwater to soak back into the ground. Finally,

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A water main break happens when a hole or crack develops in a main and causes it to rupture. They typically result from the external

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The Philadelphia Water Department has been providing water to citizens since 1801, when, in the aftermath of a series of devastating

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Untreated water enters Philadelphia Water's system through the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. Before untreated water reaches the

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in 1912, treating the sewage from several city-owned institutions to prevent it from floating upstream to the intake pipe at the

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have engaged in programming Root Kits for other schools and built birdhouses to hold the soil-moisture sensors and cameras.

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The department is responsible for delivering safe drinking water to more than 1.7 million people in Philadelphia and

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Potential Impacts and Significance of Elevated 131 I on Drinking Water Sources [Project #4486]ORDER NUMBER: 4486

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to natural fish allows the department to determine if the fish population is increasing of its own accord or because of

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Philadelphia Water delivers about 250 million gallons of this drinking water to customers on a daily basis through its

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and the Delaware Direct. The Delaware Direct subwatershed itself is very small although all the others drain into it.

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were better-designed than those at Centre Square, they were still balky and costly to run, leading to a plan to use

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RainCheck is a program Philadelphia Water employs to help residents capture stormwater and prevent it from causing

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prevents brackish water from the Delaware River from coming up the Schuylkill from the Delaware with the tide. The

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The circuit boards that collect the data go on the top floor in the birdhouse while the birds nest in the bottom.

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The greenSTEM Network is an initiative by Philadelphia Water to integrate the study of the urban watershed into

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The Darby-Cobbs watershed drains approximately 77 square miles, and about 66% of its surfaces are classified as

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The Early Warning System was created in order to integrate real time water quality monitoring with the use of

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for qualified non-residential Philadelphia Water customers and contractors and encourage the installation of

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Three water treatment plants – Baxter, in Northeast Philadelphia; Queen Lane, in East Falls; and Belmont, in

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it was specially made to safeguard water quality for millions of people in the greater Philadelphia area.

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in the rivers suffered greatly, and one swam in the rivers, or drank their raw water, at one's own peril.

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Becker, Julie; Teresa Méndez-‐Quigley; Anderson, Kelly; Amato, Alison & Consolvo, John (July 2014).

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the lowest total over 45 years and better than the national average of 240–270 breaks per 1,000 miles.

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Transmission mains are larger water mains that move vast amounts of water across Philadelphia between

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In 2014, the system added a "tidal spill trajectory animation." This provides an enhanced analysis of

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counties. PWD is a municipal agency of the City of Philadelphia, and is seated in rented space at the

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More than a hundred years ago, Philadelphia built its sewers so that sewage, stormwater runoff, and

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The Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) has three main responsibilities. The first is to treat the

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and has led to more than 3,000 fish passing through the ladder, according to a report by the

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to the rivers. That is why the department has to treat the water before it is safe to drink.

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in Philadelphia. A sewage channel adjacent to the building transfers heat into a 1 million

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of the pipe. The water typically finds its way to the surface due to the extreme amount of

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Average daily treated water delivered: approximately 250 million gallons per day (MGD)

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among the plants, the drinking water treatment process occurs through a number of steps.

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One of the environmentally-friendly initiatives of Philadelphia Water is incorporating

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The city's first system, with a steam engine at Centre Square (the current location of

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confronts a number of challenges Philadelphia faces with aging infrastructure and the

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Philadelphia Water received the 2015 Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence in

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in the same pipe, emptied directly into the city's rivers and streams, and dumping of

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applications typically keep grant requests to $ 100,000 or less per impervious acre.

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allow property owners to add greenery to their homes and recycle their spout water.

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influences on pollution spills in the Delaware Valley, improving response planning.

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distribution pipes, were both the largest of their kinds in the world at that time.

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Total wastewater service area: Philadelphia 134 sq. mi., suburban area 230 sq. mi.

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Total raw and treated water storage design capacity: 1,065.5 million Gallons (MG)

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steam engines that pumped water in all plants except Fairmount were replaced by

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This grant program is designed for large, commercial properties with lots of

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Philadelphia's waterways were historically home to spawning populations of

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On October 21, 2014, the Green City, Clean Waters program was awarded the

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around the city as a part of its Green City, Clean Waters initiative.

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A small primary wastewater treatment plant went into operation along

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Construction of sand filters for drinking water treatment in 1902

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To alleviate this public health disaster, five slow sand water

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Gwynedd, Upper Moreland, Whitemarsh, Whitpain, and Worcester.

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Average daily water sewage treatment: approximately 461 MGD

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that connect to distribution mains and channel water into a

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Combined rated treatment capacity of three plants: 546 MGD

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and allows for electricity and heat to be produced by the

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Total collector system piping: approximately 3,722 miles

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The Philadelphia sewer system has nearly 3,000 miles of

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practices that reduce stormwater's entrance into city

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Drinking water customers: approximately 1.7 million

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Philadelphia Water Department. 2008. p. 21 1310:Miles of force mains, inlets and vent pipes: 368 807:Migratory fish passage restoration and monitoring 3529: 3527: 3525: 3523: 3506:"City of Philadelphia: About Philadelphia Water" 2579: 2577: 2575: 1907:"Pennypack | Philadelphia Water Department" 1466:"City of Philadelphia: About Philadelphia Water" 1332:Water supply and sanitation in the United States 1242:Wastewater customers: approximately 2.2 million 98:39° 57′ 7.56″ N, 75° 9′ 30.6″ W39.9521, −75.1585 2499:"COMMENTARY: Protect precious plants and water" 2143:"Mandates | Philadelphia Water Department" 1860:"Delaware | Philadelphia Water Department" 3540:. City of Philadelphia, Water Department. 2013 3244:"Greenworks Philadelphia 2015 Progress Report" 2099:"City of Philadelphia: Drinking Water Quality" 1700: 1698: 1610: 1608: 1399: 1397: 3135: 3133: 2604: 2602: 2396: 2394: 1516: 1514: 1512: 8: 1736: 1734: 1578: 1576: 18: 3293:: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 2610:"Fish | Philadelphia Water Department" 2519:: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 1304:Miles of stormwater conduits (sewers): 738 1172:In 2015, students helped build and develop 719:, spills and accidents, treated wastewater 248:epidemics that killed thousands of people, 114:$ 607,576,000, FY ending 2008-06-31, actual 1313:Number of wastewater pumping stations: 16 1257:Water treatment, storage and transmission: 1185:Science Leadership Academy's Beeber campus 1153:. Using low-cost technologies such as the 1121:Southeast Water Pollution Control Facility 346:also went largely unchecked. As a result, 205:, and to provide an adequate and reliable 3197: 3179: 2785:"City of Philadelphia: Stormwater Grants" 2779: 2777: 2748: 2746: 2701:"WaterWorks Interpretive Center Fish Cam" 1642: 1585:"Spike in iodine-131 found in city water" 1316:Number of stormwater pumping stations: 3 1301:Miles of sanitary sewers – separate: 762 651:areas, each of which contributes its own 3562:Philadelphia Watersheds information site 3500: 3498: 3496: 3494: 3330:"Hot Poop! Sewage Heat to Warm Building" 3271:Posted April 10, 2012 (April 10, 2012). 1440:"Philadelphia Water Department, Mission" 1288:Wastewater treatment and infrastructure: 1093:joined the Mayor of Philadelphia, Mayor 887:Stormwater Management Incentives Program 703:, and flow patterns. Philadelphia lists 439:The city can be divided into seven main 257:to anyone with a bucket to carry it in. 3477:"City of Philadelphia: Staff Directory" 3026:. Articles.philly.com. January 22, 2014 2377:"Early Warning Systems: A Key SWP Tool" 1342: 1275:Total water system piping miles: 3,174 845:In an established partnership with the 542:Wastewater treatment and infrastructure 354:and the beginning of the 20th century. 3597:Government departments of Philadelphia 3286: 2512: 2404:. Phillywatersheds.org. April 23, 2015 2349:"DELAWARE VALLEY EARLY WARNING SYSTEM" 2321:"Delaware Valley Early Warning System" 2254:. Schuylkillwaters.org. March 24, 2015 2252:"Schuylkill Action Network – Projects" 1487:Maykuth, Andrew (September 28, 2010). 1444:Philadelphia Water Department web site 1284:Total number of fire hydrants: 25,355 674:. The third is to collect and recycle 408:Philadelphia is in the Delaware River 17: 3602:Public utilities of the United States 3143:. Phillywatersheds.org. March 5, 2015 2754:"Stormwater Incentive Grants Awarded" 2659:. Phillywatersheds.org. July 12, 2011 1705:Brennan, Morgan (February 28, 2011). 1434: 1432: 1430: 1428: 1426: 1424: 1422: 1070:Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) 847:Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission 264:) and a second engine at the foot of 7: 3577:Water companies of the United States 2071:. Oliver Evans Press. Archived from 1319:Number of stormwater inlets: 74,430 983:U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 734:Delaware Valley Early Warning System 546:By 1899, approximately 800 miles of 3592:1801 establishments in Pennsylvania 3224:. Articles.philly.com. June 2, 2011 2969:"City of Philadelphia: Main Breaks" 2681:. Phillywatersheds.org. May 2, 2012 1521:Masterson, Teresa (March 2, 2011). 1196:Randy E. Hayman, Water Commissioner 1046:Philadelphia's rivers and streams. 318:Philadelphia Parks & Recreation 125:Randy E. Hayman, Water Commissioner 3074:. Gridphilly.com. November 1, 2011 2449:"Welcome to the Enterprise Portal" 1583:Bauers, Sandy (December 7, 2012). 1085:A picture summary of how CSO works 775:Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 52:City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 14: 3309:"Green Stormwater Infrastructure" 3168:American Journal of Public Health 2477:"Rain: Don't let a good thing go" 2356:Delawareesturary.s3.amazonaws.com 1622:Environmental Health Perspectives 1253:Wholesale water: 101.35+ sq. mi. 1250:Philadelphia water: 130 sq. mi. 1064:American Journal of Public Health 678:into clean, beneficial soil-like 476:River drain into this watershed. 381:Between the 1920s and 1940s, the 2637:. Usace.army.mil. April 30, 2012 1707:"America's 10 Most Toxic Cities" 1322:Sewers reconstructed: 6.6 miles 1307:Miles of combined sewers: 1,856 24: 3587:Companies based in Philadelphia 2829:"Philadelphia Water Department" 2556:Beeler, Carolyn (May 3, 2012). 2121:"Philadelphia Recycling Center" 1281:Total number of valves: 91,240 1076:green stormwater infrastructure 686:Source Water Protection Program 283:While the steam engines at the 2991:"Biogas Cogeneration Facility" 2898:. Infrastructurereportcard.org 2301:. Geographit.com. May 12, 2015 1: 2945:Beck, Steve (June 14, 2015). 2918:"What is a water main break?" 2189:. Business Wire. June 8, 2015 1615:V. J. Brown (February 2014). 1151:Philadelphia's public schools 1051:American Planning Association 900:Greened Acre Retrofit Program 815:and several other species of 699:conditions, major sources of 152:Philadelphia Water Department 3508:. City of Philadelphia. 2020 2123:. Synagro.com. June 20, 2014 1278:Main mileage replaced: 16.1 840:U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2587:. Philly H2O. June 24, 2009 2276:. Awwa.org. October 6, 2015 1377:"PWD 2008 Financial Report" 672:wastewater treatment system 518:, Bucks, and the Delaware. 3618: 2065:"Fairmount Dam, 1819–1821" 2063:Gibson, Jane Mork (1990). 1353:. LinkedIn. Archived from 338:, carrying stormwater and 278:Philadelphia Museum of Art 272:. In 1815, a new works at 162:. PWD provides integrated 1590:The Philadelphia Inquirer 1494:The Philadelphia Inquirer 981:has been endorsed by the 316:, and is administered by 196:Center City, Philadelphia 23: 3190:10.2105/AJPH.2014.302314 1157:microcontroller and the 1043:impact of climate change 1036:Green City, Clean Waters 788:allow owners to collect 617:Columbia Railroad Bridge 607:Drinking water treatment 522:Tookany/Tacony-Frankford 64:1101 Market Street, Fl 5 3427:"The greenSTEM Network" 2585:"Fairmount Dam Fishway" 2501:. Courierpostonline.com 1217:Ji Jun, General Counsel 1089:On April 12, 2012, the 632:Safe Drinking Water Act 291:to pump water into the 3275:. Switchboard.nrdc.org 3118:. Phillywatersheds.org 3096:. Phillywatersheds.org 2612:. Phillywatersheds.org 2537:. Phillywatersheds.org 2167:. Phillywatersheds.org 2145:. Phillywatersheds.org 2044:. Phillywatersheds.org 2022:. Phillywatersheds.org 1997:. Phillywatersheds.org 1975:. Phillywatersheds.org 1953:. Phillywatersheds.org 1931:. Phillywatersheds.org 1909:. Phillywatersheds.org 1884:. Phillywatersheds.org 1862:. Phillywatersheds.org 1840:. Phillywatersheds.org 1446:. City of Philadelphia 1146: 1086: 620: 362: 241: 66:Philadelphia, PA 19107 2949:. Nbcphiladelphia.com 2925:Manheimwatersewer.org 2867:. December 22, 2006. 2069:Workshop of the World 1792:"Delaware Watersheds" 1271:Water infrastructure: 1181:Fairmount Water Works 1144: 1084: 877:stormwater management 614: 360: 285:Fairmount Water Works 239: 3457:. Ecosystems.psu.edu 1815:. Nap.usace.army.mil 997:and was financed by 873:green infrastructure 792:for other purposes. 590:Wastewater treatment 451:, Tacony-Frankford, 2723:"Pennsylvania FY12" 2328:Schuylkillwater.org 1635:10.1289/ehp.122-A50 1561:on December 2, 2013 979:biogas cogeneration 977:The technology for 973:Biogas cogeneration 893:impervious surfaces 717:agricultural runoff 584:secondary treatment 348:waterborne diseases 332:anti-pollution laws 86:39.9521°N 75.1585°W 82: / 20: 2703:. Schuylkill Banks 2456:Portal.state.pa.us 1525:. NBC Philadelphia 1147: 1087: 621: 619:in the background. 363: 242: 226:Lower Bucks County 2075:on March 27, 2009 1236:Employees: 1,836 1137:greenSTEM Network 1113:Energy efficiency 1015:organic materials 989:given off during 965:Green initiatives 945:Water main breaks 862:Stormwater grants 713:stormwater runoff 711:and development, 398:West Philadelphia 367:filtration plants 344:industrial wastes 213:, especially the 148: 147: 119:Utility executive 91:39.9521; -75.1585 3609: 3550: 3549: 3547: 3545: 3539: 3531: 3518: 3517: 3515: 3513: 3502: 3489: 3488: 3486: 3484: 3473: 3467: 3466: 3464: 3462: 3451: 3445: 3444: 3442: 3440: 3431: 3423: 3417: 3416: 3414: 3412: 3407:. 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