GI#44 Revised 5/25/2018

At this site, located in the Fairview neighborhood,

the existing asphalt has been removed and

replaced with 3,090 square feet of permeable

surfaces that promote groundwater recharge.

Pervious paver stones were used to create the

walkways to the front entrances of the school,

while the remainder of the area includes porous

asphalt. On top of the porous asphalt, there are seven raised landscape boxes, each 12 square

feet in size. All of the raised landscape boxes were planted with Black-eyed Susan and Purple

Coneflower. Also, a 300 gallon rainwater harvesting cistern has been installed to collect the

stormwater runoff from the rooftop of the building. The collected rainwater is used to water the

raised landscape boxes at the site. Overflow is directed to the sewer system along Collings Road.

These installations help to mitigate nuisance flooding in the area and reduces nonpoint source

pollution and stormwater that would otherwise discharge into the City of Camden's combined

sewer system. This site captures 145,414 gallons of stormwater per year. This project was

completed in September 2015.

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Yorkship Elementary School

1251 Collings Rd.