Projects

PROJECTS HIGHLIGHTS

Planting day at the Harris Creek Rain Garden near Professor Trash Wheel, Baltimore City, MD (Client, Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore)

Splash Pad at Henrietta Lacks Educational (Ambrose Kennedy) Park in Baltimore City, MD (Client, Parks & People Foundation)

Downspout stormwater planters at Gallery Church near Patterson Park in Baltimore City, MD (Client, Blue Water Baltimore)

WHERE WE WORK

Since 2014, CityScape has designed and implemented over 130 stormwater restoration projects throughout Baltimore City and the surrounding region. Completed projects include more than 14 bioretention, 21 micro-bioretention, 40 rain gardens, and 22 impervious removal projects. The result has been net removal of over 175,000 square feet of pavement surface and treatment of an additional of 52 acres of impervious drainage area.

pROJECT PROFILES

Henrietta Lacks Educational Park Revitalization in Johnston Square

The Parks and People Foundation, in partnership with Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks, received a large grant from the National Recreation and Parks Association to overhaul and green the Henrietta Lacks Educational (formerly Ambrose Kennedy) Park. The 1.75 acre park, located in the highly urbanized Johnson Square neighborhood, is within walking distance of nearly 11,500 people, along major bus routes, and across the street from Johnston Elementary School. The park contains a neighborhood pool that is heavily utilized in summer months, but there was no permanent restroom facility. Additionally, the surrounding park had deteriorated to contain vast amounts of broken asphalt, damaged fencing and recreational courts, and minimal green space.

CityScape was hired as the Prime Consultant and Lead Designer to improve the park. New park features include a splash pad, a boulder seat wall, a three-stall pre-fabricated restroom building, new basketball courts and fixtures, pathway and court lighting, park benches, a large bioretention area, and extensive green space with canopy trees and native plantings. Facilities were designed with low maintenance considerations including grouted rock and boulder areas and curb barriers between mowed grass and planted stormwater management facilities.

MedStar Harbor Hospital Green Infrastructure Project

MedStar Harbor Hospital, located directly on the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River in Baltimore, MD, undertook a voluntary and comprehensive campus-wide stormwater runoff and pollutant-reducing green infrastructure effort. One of only two waterfront hospitals in Maryland, the hospital sought to serve as a model of environmental initiatives for other health care facilities. In 2016, working in close collaboration with Blue Water Baltimore, Plisko Sustainable Solutions, and CityScape Engineering, the hospital received a large grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust for planning and design to treat runoff from an extensive lawn and six parking lots located immediately adjacent the shoreline. In 2017, the hospital successfully secured funding through the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund to construct all practices proposed in the plan.

The new campus retrofits include a waterfront healing garden, walking trails, educational signage, street trees, bioretention areas and rain gardens for stormwater management. The project resulted in the removal of over 18,000 sf of impervious cover and installation of 14 stormwater management facilities, effectively treating runoff from 7 acres of the property.

Chesapeake Stormwater Network Webcast Series
Advanced Stormwater Design: Permeable Pavements
A link to the archived webcast is here:
http://chesapeakestormwater.net/events/webcast-advanced-stormwater-design-permeable-pavement/

ASCE-EWRI Permeable Pavement Technical Committee (Co-Chair).
Kelly Lindow serves as co-chair of the national ASCE-EWRI LID committee on Permeable Pavements. In 2015, the committee released an ASCE Publication titled Permeable Pavements, a comprehensive resource for the proper design, construction, and maintenance of permeable pavement systems. Kelly conducts on-going ASCE Continuing Education Webinars covering Introductory and Advanced Permeable Pavement Design. A link to the Permeable Pavements book is here: http://www.asce.org/templates/publications-book-detail.aspx?id=15418