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Parks and DEP collaboration on green infrastructure projects
2:07:54
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Assistant Commissioner Larson explains the collaboration between the Parks Department and DEP in implementing green infrastructure projects in parks. Their partnership involves various approaches to manage stormwater runoff both within parks and from surrounding areas.
- Parks designs and constructs GI retrofits on parkland with DEP funding
- Collaboration on programs like the Community Parks Initiative to incorporate green infrastructure into new park designs
- Joint efforts to retrofit existing parks with green infrastructure to capture neighborhood runoff
- Ongoing collaboration on major programs like Cloudburst and Blue Belt across multiple boroughs
James F. Gennaro
2:07:54
What are Parks and DEP's respective roles in citing, designing, installing, and maintaining green infrastructure in Parks?
2:08:09
Sure.
2:08:09
Just state your name for
Marit Larson
2:08:06
I can start from the parks perspective.
2:08:10
Margaret Larson, assistant commissioner of natural resources and planning.
2:08:15
There are a number of ways that we work together with DEP to ensure that we are designing and implementing stormwater green infrastructure wherever possible in parks, both to manage our own stormwater runoff and when appropriate, runoff from the right of way.
2:08:32
One is that Parks designs and constructs GI retrofits on parkland with DEP funding and occasionally in the past with grants funding, grant funding to take runoff from outside parks.
2:08:47
We also partner with parks with DEP in programs such as our community parks initiative where we're building new parks and then adding DEP funding to be able to add green infrastructure components into those systems.
2:09:04
That program's been going on for ten plus years.
2:09:07
And finally, we collaborate with DEP on opportunities to retrofit green infrastructure into parks to capture neighborhood runoff where DEP takes the lead.
2:09:22
We still work very, very closely with them, of course, because wherever that's possible, we need to make sure that we're still protecting park resources and providing park functions.
2:09:33
And some of the bigger programs, of course, we've talked about today, the Cloudburst and Blue Belt programs.
2:09:39
And we're continuing we've worked with them for decades, as you've heard, Staten Island, and continue to work with them as they expand our programs to other boroughs.