MEDIA ALERT
What: Springfield Environmental Services will dedicate the recently completed Fairgrounds Green Infrastructure Project at 2 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 17.
Attendees will learn more about the fairgrounds project and how Green Infrastructure in general can work to reduce flooding, improve water quality and improve the quality of place of our parking lots, greenspaces and businesses.
A walking tour of the project site will be hosted immediately following a brief ceremony.
Where: The event and parking is located on the west side of the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds east of the Dickerson Park Zoo parking lot (near 3067 N. Fort Ave).
More About the Project:
The Fairgrounds Green Infrastructure Project provides water quality treatment for stormwater runoff from the western portion of the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds property and surrounding areas. The project includes several rain garden features with native plantings, pervious pavers, bioretention and a hydrodynamic separator.
Funded through $700,000 American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) water infrastructure funds administered through Missouri Department of Natural Resources along with Environmental Services Clean Water Enterprise Fund, the project was constructed at a cost of $1.7 million.
To learn more about green infrastructure projects, visit springfieldmo.gov/greeninfrastructure
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Media contact: Communication Coordinator Kristen Milam at 573-819-3713 or [email protected].
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