Site Number on Map

Virtual Tour Sites (opens pdf files)

     BMPs found at each

Visitation

Requirements

1

Black Rock Park

1. Naturalized basin

2. Infiltration trench

 

None

2

Lower Providence Township Basin Naturalization Project

 

1.    Naturalized basins

None

3

Perkiomen Valley High School

1. Wet-pond

2. Vegetated swales

 

Schedule visits in advance and sign in upon arrival

4

Shelly Square Shopping Center

1. Underground infiltration/detention basin

2. Sediment forebay

3. Wetland area

 

None

5

Upper Perkiomen School District

1. Naturalized basins

2. No-mow zones

3. Bioretention swales

 

Notify high school office before entering school property

6

F. X. Browne, Inc.

1. Constructed stormwater wetland

 

None

7

Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, LLC

1. Underground infiltration gallery

2. Porous pavement

3. Bioretention swales

4. Constructed stormwater wetlands

 

Must schedule visits in advance, sign in when entering site, no photography, and must wear proper safety equipment

8

Temple University, Ambler College

1. Green roof

2. Wetland garden

 

Restricted Hours

9

Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association (WVWA)

1. Rain barrels

2. Dry well

3. Pervious paving: concrete pavers and plastic pavers

4.    Constructed wetland

 

Groups of five or more must schedule a visit in advance

10

Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust (PERT)

1. Underground infiltration gallery

2. Infiltration trenches (sand and gravel)

3. Riparian buffer

4. Riparian stormwater wetland

5. Upland wet-ponds

 

Permission needed from PERT to visit upland wet-pond, riparian stormwater wetland, and riparian buffer.

11

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Southeast Regional Office (SERO)

 

1. Green roof

2. Rainwater cistern

Must be escorted by DEP employee and schedule tour of five or more people in advance

12

Riverbend Environmental Education Center

1. Porous pavement

2. Bioswale

 

None

13 Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education 1. Green Roof

2. Rain Garden

None
14 Whitemarsh Township Building 1. Rain Garden

2. Rain Barrel

None
15 Spring-Ford School District

(under construction)

1. Basin Retro-fit

2. Rain Garden

3. Native Plant Buffer

4. Thermal Wells

None

16

Villanova University BMP Park (outside link)

1. Bioinfiltration parking island

2.   Constructed wetland

3.   Porous concrete

4.  Infiltration trench

 

Please read the website about Villanova's requirements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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