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Six 1,000-Gallon Cisterns Installed at EPA West Building |
The Ariel Rios South Building Courtyard project is part of a larger effort to beautify the EPA Headquarters complex and also demonstrate more environmentally sound building and landscaping techniques. The Facilities Management and Services Division in the Office of Administration and Resources Management, the Office of Water and the General Services Administration have been working on a plan to exhibit stormwater management techniques, sustainable design and low impact development (LID) at the Federal Triangle complex. We hope that this plan will serve as a model for the federal community and will demonstrate many of the practices that can be employed to mitigate the effects of stormwater runoff and reduce combined sewer overflows into our rivers, streams and coastal waters. It will also demonstrate that sustainable design and LID can be utilized in high profile, urban sites that must pass through rigorous aesthetic design reviews. Some of the techniques that we are demonstrating include:
- low maintenance/native plants
- cisterns to collect and reuse runoff
- bioretention cells (PDF) (3 pp, 134K, About PDFs)
- permeable pavers (PDF) (2 pp, 66K, About PDFs)
- permeable concrete
Demonstration Project DetailsEPA Headquarters is located as part of the larger Federal Triangle Complex (PDF) (1 pg, 135K, About PDFs) in downtown Washington. The demonstration project involves three sites:
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Awards for Demonstration Project
- GSA FY 2007 Achievement Award for Real Property Innovation
- Landscape Contractors Association MD-DC-VA 2008 Award (PDF) (2 pp, 820K, About PDF)
Photos were first printed in the May 2008 "Groundwork" magazine published by the Landscape Contractors Association MD-DC-VA and are posted here with their permission.
More Information
- Fact Sheet (PDF)—Stormwater Management at EPA Headquarters ( 4pp, 1.6MB, About PDFs)
- Questions and Answers (PDF)—EPA Headquarters Low Impact Development Demonstration Project ( 5pp, 37K, About PDFs)
- EPA Facilities Management and Services Division in the Office of Administration and Resources Management—Greening EPA
- EPA Office of Water—Low Impact Development
- EPA Office of Water—Green Infrastructure
- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) LID and Other Green Design Strategies
- Low Impact Development Center
Project Partners
This demonstration project is a collaborative effort involving EPA´s Office of Water, the Facilities Management Division of EPA´s Office of Administration and Resources Management, and the General Services Administration. Other partners joined as this project evolved, including the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the National Capital Planning Commission, the DC Water and Sewer Authority, and a variety of contractors.
Viewing the Demonstration Project
If you are interested in more information on the demonstration project or a tour, please contact LIDHQ@epa.gov.