Overview
Grant Funding & Engineering for Municipal Police Department Green Infrastructure
Timmons Group played a crucial role in helping the Town of Ashland secure funding for a significant green infrastructure project. The project involved retrofitting an existing paved parking lot with permeable pavers and restoring an urban degraded stream. The site, which included the Ashland Police Department and Pufferbelly Park, featured a drainage ditch that serves as the storm sewer outfall for over 80 acres of urban area and the headwaters of Mechumps Creek, an impaired waterway in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Not only did Timmons Group perform the engineering and design work for this project, they also assisted the Town of Ashland in writing and submitting grant applications to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s (NFWF) Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s (VA DEQ) Stormwater Local Assistance Fund (SLAF). These grants were essential in securing the necessary funding to move forward with the project.
The project is particularly valuable because much of the drainage area was developed before stormwater management was a consideration, leading to untreated stormwater discharge. By converting the nearly 8,000 square foot parking lot to permeable pavers, the project has achieved a reduction of 0.5 lbs/year of phosphorus. Additionally, the restoration of 220 linear feet of the drainage ditch resulted in a further reduction of 9 lbs/year of phosphorus.
Funding Source: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s (NFWF) Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s (VA DEQ) Stormwater Local Assistance Fund (SLAF)
Funds Awarded: $200,000 (NFWF), $157,500 (SLAF)
