Resources.
Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority: 4MR Project Page
The Four Mile Run Stormwater Project encompasses Schenley Park and several Pittsburgh neighborhoods including Garfield, Hazelwood, Oakland, and Squirrel Hill. This project will capture and route stormwater through a natural channel that will follow the path of the historic streams that formed Four Mile Run from Panther Hollow Lake to the Monongahela River. It will help to reduce combined sewer overflows, basement backups, and neighborhood flooding.
PWSA Stormwater Strategic Plan Ambassador Project
In partnership with PWSA, Grounded Strategies has launched a community-based effort to equip residents with information needed to engage their Pittsburgh Sewer and Water Authority (PWSA) Stormwater Strategic Plan peers on updates including design and investment strategies, stormwater fee, customer financial assistance program, and stormwater issues in their communities. For more information about PWSA Stormwater programs check out: https://www.pgh2o.com/your-water/stormwater.
The PWSA Stormwater Strategic Plan Ambassador program transforms passionate residents into well-equipped and knowledgeable champions of stormwater infrastructure in their communities. Throughout the program, Ambassadors are recruited, interviewed, selected, trained, & equipped for assigned community outreach objectives to include neighbor-to-neighbor education activities and community-scale data collection.
We seek to remove hurdles to participation and level curves of technical understanding for Ambassadors throughout the project.
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy: 4 Mile Run Task Force
Four Mile Run is a PWSA Priority Watershed that includes all of Schenley Park and portions of the neighborhoods of Oakland, Squirrel Hill, Greenfield and Hzelwood. The Run currently drains to the ALCOSAN system and overflows into the Monongahela at Outfall M-29, a few hundred feet upstram of the Hot Metal Bridge. The Four Mile Run Project has its own website.
ALCOSAN's typical year analysis reveals 79 overflow activations of the M29 Outfall for a total of 467 hours of overflow discharge accounting for 400 million gallons of overflow.
PWSA is investing in wet weather infrastructure at Wightman Park in the upper portion of the watershed. These waters and sewer flow toward Junction Hollow. The work is in its final stages with active soil and planting work scheduled for June 2022. Updates on the second phase of work is available from PWSA.
