REMEDIATIONPLANNING

GREEN RESTORATION

REMEDIATION

Removal of pollution and contaminants from environmental media, such as

SOIL, GROUNDWATER, SEDIMENT, SURFACE WATER

FOR

General protection of human health and the environment or from a brownfield site intended for redevelopment.

BACKGROUND

PLANNING PROCESS:1. Identify Problems and specify objectives2. Design, Study and compile an inventory of conditions and resources3. Analyze data and formulate plans and policies4. Evaluate alternative plans and policies and select the best alternative5. Implement the plan or policy and continuously monitor the implementation

Urban dwellers are continuously surrounded by messages that land and resources elsewhere are somehow

UNRELATED TO URBAN ACTIVITIES

Urban Ecology

Human activity

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Built Environment

Nature

Contradictory Action

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING(Based on Hazardous Waste Planning)

1. Hazardous waste management planning2. Site correction and remediation3. Emergency response and hazard management4. Citizen participation planning

GREEN RESTORATION

REMEDIATION

Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is

complicated by real or perceived environmental contaminations.

Land/field that is previously used for industrial purposes of certain commercial uses that maybe contaminated by low concentrations of hazardous wate or pollution and has the potential to be reused once

it cleaned up

GREEN RESTORATION

GREEN RESTORATION

Olympic Clean Up: John Pym

Site RemediationWaste Management

Water Sensitive Urban DesignNature Conservation

GREEN RESTORATION

GREEN RESTORATION

Treatment and/or containment of waste to reduce exposure to contamination

Stormwater capture and water recycling to re-use and conserve resources

Installation of new wetlands to reduce flood levels, provide habitat, irrigation, aesthetics, restore creek catchment function

Restoration of a "natural" creek line for Haslams Creek from a concrete stormwater channel plus removal of in-channel "chokes" to manage stormwater flows, reduce flooding, provide habitat and improve aesthetics

Monitoring and conservation plan development for key species or communities,

Green building guidelines, which considered the entire life cycle of materials, waste management and use of energy.

GREEN RESTORATION

Newton Creek, NY

The Newton Creek has a legacy of over a century of industrial use.

It is where a 55-acre, 17 million gallon oil spill (one of the largest in U.S. history) happened.

More than 2.7 billion gallons of raw sewage are pumped and discharged into the creek each year.

All of the creeks 1.5 square miles of tidal wetlands have been lost.