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PCIA Announces Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Micro-Bioretention Project
Join us for Pines on the Severn's Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for our Micro-Bioretention Basin Project June 18, 3:00-4:00 pm at Pines Park!
Pines on the Severn (PCIA) Announces Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Micro-Bioretention Basin Project
ARNOLD, MD (June 10, 2024) Pines on the Severn (PCIA) will hold a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony to celebrate the completion of its new Micro-Bioretention Basin project at Pines Park on Tuesday, June 18 at 3:00 pm, at the corner of Pine Bluff and Severn Way in Arnold. Light refreshments will be served.
Major funding for this project was provided by a $25K grant through a Chesapeake Bay Trust and Anne Arundel County Watershed Restoration Award. Additional funding for the project was provided by Unity Gardens and PCIA.
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The 5,000 square foot best management practice (BMP) Micro-Bioretention Basin was designed to slow down, filter and treat stormwater from impervious surfaces including a parking lot and adjacent basketball and tennis courts.
The project includes a swale along the edge of the parking lot and sports courts to channel runoff into the basin to be filtered. Plantings below the basin on the slope to Pine Bluff will slow down, filter and treat additional stormwater and feature hearty, deep-rooted, low-maintenance native species. And since the basin is designed to drain within 48 hours, there’s no smell and no mosquito breeding.
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The benefits of the project are that erosion on the hillside has been reduced significantly and stormwater from the area is now filtered. The project also reduces pollution content and the volume of stormwater runoff entering Chase Creek, improving the environment and enhancing the quality of life for the Pines community and vast ecosystem in adjacent waterways including the Chesapeake Bay.
Project partners included: Chesapeake Bay Trust, Anne Arundel County Bureau of Watershed Protection and Restoration, Unity Gardens, Anne Arundel County Watershed Stewards Academy, Welspryng, LLC, Arnold Preservation Council and Winchester on the Severn.
Pines on the Severn is an incorporated residential community of 238 homes located on the east bank of the Severn River north of Annapolis in Arnold, MD. The community is a Designated Clean Water Community by Anne Arundel County Watershed Stewards Academy.