2014

Best Residential BMP

Harn Aqueduct Rain Garden
2014
1st Place

Harn Aqueduct Rain Garden

The Harn Aqueduct Rain Garden and Conservation Landscaping project eliminated standing water on a walk-out patio and potential basement flooding through use of an aqueduct...
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Edmonds Rain Garden
2014
2nd Place

Edmonds Rain Garden

This project involves a number of different BMPs that are used to treat runoff from an entire property. The property was transformed from a plain...
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Swatlowski Rain Garden
2014
3rd Place

Swatlowski Rain Garden

This project provides a great example of a before/after transformation of a home landscape using multiple BMPs. The combination of the BMPs, native landscaping, a rain garden,...
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Best Innovative BMP

Veggie Box
2014
2nd Place

Veggie Box

The Veggie Box project was chosen for its creative application of several technologies, most notably a “self-watering” reservoir that promotes denitrification of captured stormwater....
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Green Tracks
2014
3rd Place

Green Tracks

The Green Tracks project took third place in the Innovative BMP category for good utilization of otherwise unusable land. The pioneering project had numerous...
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Algal Treatment Technology
2014
1st Place

Algal Treatment Technology

This project was implemented at the Maryland Port Administration’s Dundalk Marine Terminal and uses the power of algae driven by photosynthesis to efficiently remove...
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Best Combination of BMP in a Series

2014
1st Place

Morgan State University Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure...

The Center for Built Environment & Infrastructure Studies building at Morgan State University was developed with the overall design intent to incorporate as many...
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Casey Trees Headquarters
2014
2nd Place

Casey Trees Headquarters

Our second place winner last year won for their efficient utilization of a small space. This project created both visually pleasing and functional stormwater...
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Woodbrook Lagoon Enhancement Project
2014
3rd Place

Woodbrook Lagoon Enhancement Project

This project combined stormwater BMPs with stream restoration to improve water quality. The improvements involved enhancing wetland systems, installing in-stream rock weirs, removing invasive...
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Best Habitat Creation in a BMP

Meadowbrook Parking Lot Naturalization
2014
3rd Place

Meadowbrook Parking Lot Naturalization

Our jurors wanted to recognize this project as a 2014 third place winner for the creating a wetland system in a deteriorating parking lot...
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Inner Harbor Bioflotsam Treatment Wetlands
2014
2nd Place

Inner Harbor Bioflotsam Treatment Wetlands

The project that won second place in this category in 2014 serves as a superb example of a Best Management Practice performing critical uptake of...
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Davidson Wildlife Sanctuary
2014
1st Place

Davidson Wildlife Sanctuary

Davidsonville Wildlife Sanctuary, once the site of an algae-filled farm pond with barren banks, now features a beautiful restored wetland system that detains runoff...
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Best Education & Outreach Project

2014
1st Place

HRPDC “Write as Rain” Campaign

Write as Rain is an innovative sidewalk messaging campaign that used an eco-friendly hydrophobic spray to place hidden messages on sidewalks and streetscapes that...
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Urban Stream Restoration

Landis Homes Stream and Floodplain Restoration
2014
2nd Place

Landis Homes Stream and Floodplain Restoration

Our jurors appreciated this project’s use of innovative stream and floodplain restoration techniques that increased floodwater storage potential, created wetlands, improved infiltration, reduced stream...
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Carriage Hills Stream Restoration
2014
3rd Place

Carriage Hills Stream Restoration

This project focused on the restoration of a seepage wetland ecosystem. It involved filling a severely eroded channel, installing rock and riffle grade control...
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Cabin Branch Stream Restoration
2014
1st Place

Cabin Branch Stream Restoration

The Cabin Branch Stream Restoration is a showcase for Regenerative Stream Channel (RSC) restoration technology, highlighting within one project three prototype RSC applications for...
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Best Ultra-Urban Project

LID BMP Stormwater Demonstration, Education, Testing, and Training Facility at the Science Museum of Virgina
2014
3rd Place

LID BMP Stormwater Demonstration, Education, Testing, and Training Facility at...

Our jurors were impressed with this project because it utilizes an impressive variety of BMPs: bioretention, tree well filter boxes, pervious concrete, a vegetated...
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Canal Park at the Riverfront (Washington, DC)
2014
2nd Place

Canal Park at the Riverfront (Washington, DC)

This project took home our second place certificate for applying the regional stormwater BMP to an ultra-urban setting by converting a bus parking area...
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Plum and Walnut Green Intersection
2014
1st Place

Plum and Walnut Green Intersection

Green Infrastructure transformed a low-lying intersection with a large concrete island and dangerous merge lane into a model for stormwater management, improved traffic safety,...
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A HUGE “thank you!” to our 2014 sponsors who help make the BUBBAs happen:

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