Nine Mile Run Strategic Plan 2020-2023

Strategic Plan 2020-23

NINE MILE RUN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION

Children from Hosanna House Summer Camp on a field trip to Nine Mile Run, learning about the importance of native plants in protecting water quality.

A riffle pool, part of the restoration of Nine Mile Run.

Board of Directors President Heather Dodson, PE LEED AP, Senior Civil Engineer Lead, Pittsburgh Water Group Michael Baker International Vice President Joseph Fedor Environmental Scientist Alcosan Treasurer Keith Roeper, Director, Finance and Controller Robert Morris University Secretary Janis Tucker, Senior Vice President, The PNC Financial Services Group

Staff Louis Ammon Laboratory and Compliance Manager Wilkinsburg-Penn Joint Water Authority Scott Fingal Principal and Co-Owner Behar Fingal Yvonne James Owner James Floral Mary Kostalos Professor of Biology, Emeritus Chatham University Jason J. McBride, PE Senior Project Manager Wade Trim Will Pickering Deputy Executive Director Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority Zinna Scott Community Volunteer Board Member, Operation Better Block Amy Silbermann Senior Analyst Port Authority of Allegheny County Kelsey Small, ex officio CFO, Environmental Finance Collaborative

Prepared by: evolve environment::architecture Christine Mondor, Principal Claudia Saladin, Sr. Project Manager

February 2020

Brenda Smith, ex officio Executive Director Nine Mile Run Watershed Association Marie Stapinski Owner, MS Interiors, LLC Jordan L. Strassburger Associate Attorney Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky

Brenda Smith Executive Director

Table of Contents A Message from Our Executive Director

Kelsey Small Chief Financial Officer

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Lindsey-Rose Flowers Restoration Stewardship Coordinator

Our Vision for the Future Our Geography Our Impact Our Context Our Work Where we’ve been | Where we’re going

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What we do

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Our Plan

Mike Hiller Assistant Director

Jan Raether Watershed Programs Manager Tricia Dougherty Operations and Communications Manager Kelly Horvath MSW Intern John Lavacorre Communications Intern Aaron Birdy GIS Intern Andrea Haynes StormWorks Design Manager Trey Marks StormWorks Project Manager Brian Funk StormWorks Field Technician Marisa Strom StormWorks Field Technician Kimberly Hanley StormWorks Field Technician

Nine Mile Run Watershed Association is a grassroots success story.

Born 20 years ago from a vision of clean and ecologically intact waterways that connect our neighborhoods to the river, we have evolved from an artist-led university project to a nonprofit with a long record of advocacy, education, implementation, and partnership that has advanced regional green infrastructure efforts beyond the watershed boundaries.

A Message from the Executive Director Brenda Smith

As municipalities and authorities are stepping up their efforts, we are also reassessing our position. We see our approaching twentieth anniversary as a time to celebrate our successes and recommit to the organization’s vision and mission with a new sense of urgency. While much progress has been made in the past 20 years, much work remains to be done to steward and protect the Nine Mile Run restoration area, and to achieve a healthy ecological balance throughout our watershed.

We now see clear evidence of climate change in the restoration area, and the negative impacts are increasing. The position of the stream at the bottom of a highly urbanized watershed means that the restoration area will be continually under threat from upstream impacts, and even more so as the number and intensity of rain events increases.

At the same time, we recognize that the problems of our watershed do not stand in isolation, and that advocacy at a regional scale is required.

The problems we have grappled with in Nine Mile Run are also faced by many other communities. We will continue our outreach efforts to neighboring communities in the region that face similar issues.

Nonprofit action and advocacy are essential to help define the issues and demonstrate sustainable solutions that will benefit all people in the region. We will continue to shape the watershed’s future for the next 20 years and beyond; this strategic plan sets the agenda for the next four years.

OPPOSITE: Fern Hollow Creek as it emerges from the box culvert in Frick Park BELOW: Children from Hosanna House in Wilkinsburg on a field trip to Nine Mile Run.

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Our Vision for the Future

Our vision for the future guides both what we do and how we do it. It is important to revisit our vision and mission to understand our direction over the next 4 years.

OUR We envision a region with clean water accessible to all, healthy and resilient communities, and ecosystems restored to their natural functions.

VISION

OUR We restore and protect our watershed ecosystem, while working regionally to support and implement resilient solutions for a healthy urban environment.

MISSION

We envision a future where the entire three rivers watershed is healthy. We envision communities that have access to safe, clean drinking water, are safe from flooding, basements backups, and landslides. We envision that these benefits are equitably distributed.

We embrace a One Water approach, which holds that water should be managed sustainably and in an inclusive manner “to build strong economies, vibrant communities, and healthy environments,” (US Water Alliance).

We also recognize that climate change is a threat to our communities on many levels and that ever larger and more intense rainstorms present a huge challenge to community resilience and clean water throughout the region.

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STRATEGY We implement green infrastructure projects throughout our shed while working to educate public officials, the general public, and young people.

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We build capacity for the community to become stewards of and advocates for the shed.

Students from the Woodland Hills School District on a field trip to Nine Mile Run.

We strive to “get our shed done” so that the Nine Mile Run watershed is truly a model for how to achieve equity, water quality, and resilience in urban watersheds.

In the lower shed, we are the stewards of a $7.7 million restoration of the Nine Mile Run stream by the US Army Corps, completed in 2006. This incredible resource serves as classroom, inspiration, and model of sustainable water stewardship.

In our upper shed, we assist multiple upstream municipalities as they strive to implement sustainable stormwater solutions that serve the community and contribute to our One Water solutions.

Our skillful demonstration of One Water solutions and sustainable stormwater management will give us a position of strength from which we can leverage regional advocacy.

We advocate regionally for policies and funding for sustainable water management strategies that prioritize clean water for all in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

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Our Geography We are fundamentally a place-based organization. An understanding of our sewershed is critical to understanding the strategy of the organization.

PENN HILLS PITTSBURGH

Sewershed Boundary

Lower Shed: Frick Park

WILKINSBURG

The area in Frick Park where the stream is above ground and where the restoration work occurred. This is the lowest point in the sewershed and watershed. All water in the shed eventually flows through the lower shed and into the Monongahela River.

EDGEWOOD

Frick Park

BRADDOCK HILLS SWISSVALE

Nine Mile Run (above ground) Nine Mile Run (below ground)

Upper Shed: Municipalities The entire sewershed and watershed area above the lower shed that collects the stormwater and combined sewage that flows into the lower shed of Nine Mile Run. Everything that happens here impacts the lower shed and the stream.

Sewershed Boundary

The Nine Mile Run restoration area sits in Frick Park, at the bottom of the Nine Mile Run watershed and sewershed. Our shed is divided among several municipalities - principally Pittsburgh, Wilkinsburg, Swissvale and Edgewood. It is also fed by two different kinds of sewer systems - combined (where stormwater and sanitary sewage flow in the same pipe) and municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s) (where there are separate pipes for stormwater and sanitary sewage).

The primary source of sewage entering the Nine Mile Run stream is the combined sewer system in Pittsburgh. However, since much of the watershed has separated storm sewers (the MS4 communities), heavy rains carry any trash and other pollutants on the streets into the storm sewers and directly into Nine Mile Run. During major rain events, the stream spreads out across the floodplain, which is exactly what was intended in the re-design of the stream when it was restored between 2003 and 2006. But the more frequent and more intense storms we have experienced over the last few years due to climate change have carried more trash, and deposited it over a wider area, than ever before, damaging the restoration area, increasing maintenance costs and requiring costly repairs.

The best way to protect the restoration area and the lower watershed is to work in the upper shed to reduce the amount of stormwater runoff reaching Nine Mile Run. The most effective way to do this is to use GSI to store and remove stormwater in the separated portions of the shed (the MS4 communities of Wilkinsburg, Swissvale and Edgewood) to attenuate flows that are overwhelming the stream, and in the combined sewer portions of the shed to reduce sewer overflows.

The Oakwood Batavia project in Homewood removes on average 1 million gallons of stormwater from the combined sewer every year, keeping sewage out of Nine Mile Run. (Board member and advocate Zinna Scott.)

Combined Sewer Systems Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s) Frick Park

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Outside the Shed The area outside of the Nine Mile Run sewershed. This area does not directly impact Nine Mile Run, but these communities suffer from similar problems to Nine Mile Run and can benefit from the solutions we have developed in our shed.

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What’s Going Into Nine Mile Run

Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Separate pipe systems carry stormwater directly to Nine Mile Run and sanitary sewage to the treatment plant.

Nine Mile Run is impacted by combined sewer systems, primarily in Pittsburgh to West and by Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s) primarily to the East. These two types of systems impact the stream in different ways.

ALCOSAN’s planned plant and gray infrastructure improvements will address some, but not all, of these impacts. Green infrastructure will solve problems that gray infrastructure cannot, particularly in the MS4 communities of the upper shed.

Stormwater and sanitary sewage flow in the same pipe system to the treatment plant, but sometimes overflow to Nine Mile Run.

ALCOSAN’s planned investments in plant capacity and gray infrastructure under the Consent Decree will help to reduce combined sewer overflows.

In wet weather, rain mixing with sewage overwhelms the pipe and combined sewage flows into Nine Mile Run. This is the main way sewage gets into the stream.

Combined Sewer

In dry weather, sewage is diverted to the treatment plant.

Rainwater always flows directly to the stream without treatment. These flows overwhelm the stream restoration area with large volumes of water carrying trash and polluted runoff from roadways & parking lots. ALCOSAN’s planned gray infrastructure investments will not address this problem. Climate change will continue to make this problem worse.

Storm Sewer

Combined Sewer System

Some sanitary sewage can get into the storm system from improperly connected sanitary lines. Municipalities are working to eliminate these sources.

Green infrastructure captures stormwater before it enters the system and can help reduce the volume of storm water reaching the stream.

Green infrastructure captures stormwater before it enters the system and can help reduce combined sewer overflows, helping to keep sewage out of the stream.

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Sanitary/separated sewers Stormwater/combined sewers Stormwater sewers Green Infrastructure Proposed deep storage tunnels (gray infrastructure)

Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) Combined sewer overflow (CSO) Stormwater sewer discharge

Stormwater entering the sanitary sewer Sanitary sewage entering the storm sewer

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LEGEND

During major rain events, even sanitary sewers can overflow into Nine Mile Run. Some stormwater gets into the sanitary system from improperly connected drains and downspouts or ground water infiltrating through old, cracked pipes. Municipalities are working to eliminate these sources, which will reduce sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs).

Sanitary Sewer

Combined Sewer System

Parallel Storm & Sanitary Sewer Systems

Sanitary sewage is diverted to the treatment plant in dry weather and small rain events.

ALCOSAN’s planned investment in gray infrastructure will help reduce SSOs.

ALCOSAN interceptor pipes Proposed deep storage tunnels

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Our Impact MAKING A DIFFERENCE

IN OUR SHED

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of the water we retain is in our shed

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4.4 million gallons (MG) per year!

Projects Inside Our Shed GSI Projects in CSSs

GSI Projects in MS4s

Oakwood Batavia Crescent Early Childhood Center Environmental Charter School Rosedale Stormwater Tree Pits Homewood North Family Investment Center Rosedale Hill Biddle Building Point Breezeway (in order largest to smallest)

Hosanna House South Avenue Parking Lot POWER Word of God School Wilkinsburg High School Pittsburgh Urban Christian School Edgewood Train Station Edgewood Busway (in order largest to smallest)

Lower Shed A Improved Fish Passage B Major Streambank Stabilization &

Riffle Repairs in 2009 & 2018.

Upper Shed 1 Crescent Early Childhood Center 2

2 Homewood North Family Investment Center

3 Oakwood Batavia GSI

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4 Rosedale Stormwater Tree Pits 5

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5 Rosedale Hill Rain Garden 6 Point Breezeway

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9 South Avenue Parking Lot

Our work in our shed and beyond, keeps

8.7 million gallons of stormwater out of the sewer systems

10 Biddle Building Rain Garden 11 Environmental Charter School

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12 Edgewood Train Station

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13 Hosanna House 14 Edgewood Busway

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15 POWER 16 Word of God School

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MAKING A DIFFERENCE

OUTSIDE OUR SHED

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is outside % retain our shed

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4.3 million gallons (MG) per year!

GSI Projects in CSSs Carnegie Borough Parking Lots Homewood YWCA Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area Duncan Parklet Pittsburgh Job Corp University Square Northview Heights PULSE Temple Sinai Etna Borough Three Rivers Wet Weather (in order largest to smallest)

GSI Projects in MS4s Bellevue PWSA Water Treatment Plant (in order largest to smallest)

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Three Rivers Wet Weather

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Etna Borough

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Temple Sinai

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PULSE

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Northview Heights

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University Square

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Pittsburgh Job Corp

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Duncan Parklet

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Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area

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Homewood YWCA

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Carnegie Borough Parking Lots

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PWSA Water Treatment Plant

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Bellevue

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Our Context We still have work to do in Nine Mile Run Watershed.

We need a new, comprehensive shed management plan.

We need to continue to manage larger efforts, work with municipalities, and create a community of support around individual and municipal action.

Climate change is having an increasing impact on the restoration area and our communities.

More frequent and intense storms are our new normal.

Distributed networks of green infrastructure throughout our shed will help address theses threats. The nonprofit community must take a leadership roll in implementing these networks.

Trash left behind by stormwater

Deteriorating stormwater infrastructure

Nine Mile Run sewer outfall when it rains

Management of water resources and stormwater in particular is highly fragmented in the region and likely to remain so.

A regional stormwater authority and fee are needed to manage stormwater, but regionalization recommendations have stagnated due to a lack of political will. In the interim, grassroots activities and advocacy will continue to be important to creating political will around sustainable stormwater management.

We can help build a network for regional stormwater management to create the political will to address stormwater regionally.

Stormwater management is underfunded and undercapitalized.

Green solutions are the most underfunded

We advocate for funding streams to support GSI, and for stormwater ordinances that trigger greater investment in GSI.

The success of the Parks Referendum in November 2019 is a potential game changer for the restoration area.

We partner with Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and the Department of Public Works to maintain and complete the restoration area.

Public sector investment has been slow to materialize, especially in smaller municipalities. ALCOSAN and PWSA will make significant investments as a result of the consent decree, but investments are focused exclusively on reducing sewer overflows. Capital investment at PWSA over this strategic plan period will be in its priority sewersheds, which do not include Nine Mile Run. Only 3-5% of ALCOSAN’s investments under the consent degree will go to fund green solutions.

The passage of the referendum will allow more investment in parks and in GSI in parks as well as improved maintenance. A number of projects in Nine Mile Run for which some planning was done, but which were never implemented, including Regent Square Gateway Project (or Nine Mile Run Threshold Project), energy dissipation at the main discharge, and improvements to retain flow in Falls Ravine, may now become possible.

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We need to continue to hold agencies accountable for green and sustainable water solutions.

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Our Work

Where we’ve been

Where we’re going

In the 2014-16 strategic plan, the big picture goal was to get the sewage out of the Nine Mile Run stream. This goal led us to focus on the combined sewer section of our sewershed (primarily City of Pittsburgh) and was the genesis of the Rosedale Runoff Reduction Project (RRRP). This work is still important, and has carried through both the 2017-19 plan and the 2020-23 plan.

The 2020-23 plan continues the work of these previous plans, but with a deliberate re-focusing on the impacts of the MS4 systems and the needs of those communities in the watershed. The nature of the regulatory requirements governing MS4s leads MS4 communities to focus on gray solutions - like lining sewer pipes - to keep stormwater and ground water out of the sanitary system. Currently, they ignore the impact of stormwater flowing out of the storm sewer system on the water quality of receiving streams. Taking a more holistic view, we recognize that eliminating combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs), while important to water quality, will not alone achieve the level of water quality we all desire. Stormwater runoff throughout the region must be addressed, particularly in separated communities.

In the 2017-2019 strategic plan, our two overarching goals were to maintain our impact in the Nine Mile Run watershed and to leverage our experience to expand regionally and support efforts to improve and steward regional watersheds and regional water quality.

Assistant Director Mike Hiller leading a group of volunteers on a stream cleanup in Frick Park.

The restored stream suffers from the ill effects of excessive stormwater runoff, including both sewer overflows and the extreme volume and velocity of stormwater flows during every major rain event.

Over time this has resulted in serious damage to some portions of the restored stream. In 2009, and again between 2015-2018, we raised money to complete needed repairs – more than $50,000 each time.

The increase in the amount and intensity of rain guarantees that future repairs will be needed. But it is more difficult to find the needed funds each time. Adding green infrastructure in the upper shed will reduce the volume of stormwater reaching the stream and the need for costly repairs. This will be a major focus of this strategic plan.

This focus on MS4 communities fits well with our history, experience, expertise, and existing grant commitments. Moreover, since much of Allegheny County, outside the City of Pittsburgh, is comprised of MS4 communities, developing sustainable solutions in these communities will make an important contribution to the regional stormwater conversation.

Children from Hosanna House Summer Camp looking for birds at the Sherwood Events Center.

We will implement stormwater projects in the upper shed of Nine Mile Run, based on the Watershed Hydrology Report completed in 2019, demonstrating the value of GSI for water quality and flood reduction in separated communities and protecting the restoration area. We will continue our work on the Rosedale Runoff Reduction Project, which reduces sewage entering Nine Mile Run, moving into the next phase of design and implementation. Because these projects intersect with PWSA’s A42 sewershed, which is a priority sewershed, we will use this as the basis for engaging with the PWSA planning process.

We will refocus our efforts on the under-resourced MS4 communities in our shed, continuing our work from the NMR Stormwater Partnership. Where appropriate we will leverage these resources to assist neighboring MS4 sheds, advocating for green solutions in separated communities that can address both water quality and flooding. We will also take a holistic approach that addresses climate change and environmental justice.

Volunteers sampling for macroinvertebrates, a key indicator of stream health.

Based on our prior maintenance and implementation work with StormWorks and Landforce, we will make the case that GSI can be maintained and functional long term, looking at the links between design and long term maintenance costs, and continuing to advocate regionally for systemic and holistic stormwater solutions.

Nine Mile Run staff member monitoring water quality in Nine Mile Run.

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What We Do IMPLEMENT

We implement green stormwater infrastructure projects to protect our shed.

Our goals are to improve the water quality of the Nine Mile Run stream, to achieve clean, safe, affordable water throughout the region, and to restore the relationship between the natural and the built environments of our communities. To accomplish this goal, we implement green solutions that reduce the volume of stormwater reaching Nine Mile Run and other regional water ways, while addressing erosion, flooding, and basement backups. We plan, design, build, operate, monitor, and maintain green stormwater infrastructure projects of all sizes.

EDUCATE

We educate people about our watershed and how to protect it.

Our goal is to educate people - homeowners, residents, school children and public officials - about what they can do to implement and advocate for regenerative solutions that improve regional water quality, sustain healthy communities, and provide access to clean affordable water for all.

ADVOCATE

We advocate for system change that protects the region’s water and promotes access to clean water as a human right.

Our goal is to create a system that equitably protects the region’s water. Ultimately to protect water quality, we must change the system of stormwater management in our region. And, as rates rise to pay for infrastructure upgrades required by regulators, the burden will be greater for low-income ratepayers. We will be a leading advocate, convener and resource provider for GSI and for an equitable One Water approach to water management both in the Nine Mile Run Watershed and regionally. We will also work with allies to secure safe, affordable, and publicly controlled drinking water throughout the region.

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TOP: Restoration Stewardship Coordinator Lindsey-Rose Flowers with a group of students from Hosanna House on an educational field trip to Nine Mile Run. BOTTOM: Students from Chatham University assisting monitoring committee members with annual fish survey in Nine Mile Run.

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Our Plan | Tasks

IMPLEMENT

Lower Shed

Upper Shed

Outside the Shed

Planning & Municipal Consulting

Collaborate with Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and the Department of Public Works, according to negotiated MOUs, on maintenance, protection and completion of the restoration area.

Create a new watershed plan for the NMR watershed, that holistically integrates the Watershed Hydrology Study, Forest Master Plan, and community priorities.

Leverage expertise of Engineering Analyst & RLA to secure more municipal and institutional projects for StormWorks.

Design & Construction

Complete updated Restoration Plan to prioritize major projects.

Continue the Rosedale Runoff Reduction Project and begin design and construction in separated portions of the upper shed, based on hydrology report.

Participate in selected high-impact GSI projects in adjacent sewersheds.

Operation, Monitoring & Maintenance

Continue to provide innovative monitoring and maintenance of the restoration area serving as a model for ongoing stream restoration and protection in partnership with PPC, City of Pittsburgh, universities and other regional collaborators.

Develop monitoring protocol for GSI installed in the shed relating to impacts on restoration area, using data to make the case for GSI from both a cost and performance perspective.

Take a leadership role in GSI maintenance in Pittsburgh region to grow the green economy and increase confidence in the long-term viability of GSI solutions.

Educate homeowners on the importance of GSI and the urban forest for protecting the restoration area and improving regional water quality. Provide affordable green solutions to encourage direct action

EDUCATE

Homeowners

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General Public

Educate the general public about the restoration area and how GSI in the upper shed protects it and benefits regional water quality; advocate for smarter, more equitable policies for drinking water and stormwater management.

Educate the general public about the connection between water quality, flooding, basement backups and climate change and the importance of GSI in reducing these impacts and protecting regional water quality.

Public Officials

Invite public officials for site visits to demonstrate successes and discuss concerns about Nine Mile Run Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration.

Inform public officials in MS4 communities of the upper shed, including shade tree commissions, about the importance of GSI and the urban forest to improving the community and protecting regional water quality.

School Students

Educate young people about watershed concepts, ecology, and the importance of GSI in protecting regional water quality using the restoration area as a teaching tool/living lab where appropriate.

Educate young people about watershed concepts, ecology, and the importance of GSI in protecting regional water quality using the restoration area as a teaching tool/living lab where appropriate.

ADVOCATE

Advocate with Summerset Land Development Associates and other key stakeholders to maintain ecological integrity of lower Nine Mile Run valley projects.

Engage public officials from MS4 Communities around the importance of reducing stormwater runoff and the roles of stormwater ordinances and fees in achieving regulatory compliance and improving regional water quality.

Advocate for policies that ensure sustainable solutions to stormwater runoff, guarantee safe, affordable and publicly controlled clean water for all, and create long-term funding and incentives for GSI. Engage with neighboring sheds to advocate for GSI as part of regional stormwater planning.

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Our Plan | Roles & Task Leads Lower Shed

Upper Shed

Outside the Shed

Executive Director & Assistant Director Planning & Municipal Consulting

• Gets shed done • Focuses on overall planning and priorities for Nine Mile Run shed • Develops and maintains a close working relationship with municipal officials and community leaders in the shed • Supports outreach and education efforts with public officials

Education & Outreach Manager • Coordinates education efforts • Focuses on watershed residents, general public and environmental education of school students.

• Advocates for One Water approach.

• Organizes around issues of environmental justice and climate change.

Engineering Analyst To effectively implement this plan, we need our own engineer in discussions with authorities and municipal officials. This will be a new position for our organization.

• Is point of contact with municipal and consulting engineers • Provides technical support for the Watershed Manager to get shed done • Provides support to StormWorks on larger projects

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• Designs and constructs GSI projects inside and outside the shed on a fee-forservice basis • Operates and maintains GSI projects inside and outside the shed on a fee-forservice basis • Plays a key role in securing, designing, and managing implementation of grantfunded GSI projects • Provides consultations and a variety of GSI solutions for homeowners inside and outside the shed on a feefor-service basis, which helps both to address stormwater problems for clients and their communities, and also creates a more educated and engaged public

Watershed Manager

Engineering Analyst StormWorks

Design & Construction

Operation, Monitoring & Maintenance

Homeowners

Executive Director & Assistant Director

General Public

EDUCATE

Watershed Manager

StormWorks

IMPLEMENT

• Are the public face of the organization with residents, partners, and public officials • Take leading roles in watershed focused and regional advocacy for clean water and smart solutions, including service on boards, committees, and task forces, plus meetings with elected officials

Watershed Manager

Public Officials School Students

ADVOCATE

Education & Outreach Manager

Executive Director & Assistant Director

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Process June 2019 July August

Organizational Assessment Board Survey Staff Survey Meeting with ED & AD 1 August 2019

Strategic Planning Committee Meeting 28 August 2019

September

Interviews September - October 2019

Meeting with Staff 18 September 2019

Meeting with Board 22 September 2019

October November December January 2020

Meeting with ED & AD 15 October 2019

Strategic Planning Committee Meeting 30 October 2019

Meeting with ED & AD 17 December 2019

Meeting with ED & AD 14 January 2020

Strategic Planning Committee Meeting

February

20 January 2020

Adoption by Board 10 February 2020

OPPOSITE: Annual fish survey in Nine Mile Run. Stream cleanup in Nine Mile Run

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Children from the Woodland Hills School District on a field trip to Nine Mile Run.

Stormwater Tree Pits in Homewood.

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