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Overview: The Center has formed a partnership called
Temple-Villanova Sustainable Stormwater Initiative (T-VSSI) with
Villanova University’s Villanova Urban Stormwater Partnership (VUSP) to
demonstrate stormwater best management practices (BMPs), to conduct research and to
conduct outreach program focusing on regional stormwater management.
This partnership will combine best resources from the both centers to
create a larger, more powerful stormwater initiative. |
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The T-VSSI, funded by a $440,000 grant by William
Penn Foundation and a $pending grant by PA Department of Environmental
Protection, will produce several key outputs, as identified below,
within its first two years of operation.
• A technically and ecologically integrated approach
to demonstrate stormwater BMPs, which builds upon VUSP’s experience and
technical focus.
• A multidisciplinary research program involving engineers, planners,
horticulturists, geographers, ecologists, GIS specialists, etc to
develop much needed evidence of the effectiveness of stormwater BMPs.
• A broad public outreach program reaching out to
such individuals as municipal officials, regulators, developers,
engineers, planners, layers, etc, while working as an agent of change on
regional stormwater management. |
