GREEN STREETS | GREEN JOBS | GREEN TOWNS INITIATIVE
The Green Streets, Green Jobs, Green Towns Partnership (G3) aims to stimulate the green jobs market and enable families to work
where they live and play. Small to mid-sized communities can boost their local economies and protect water resources through the
use of watershed planning, design and construction of stormwater best management practices.
New East Crossing bridges sustainable design and affordable housing.
NEW EAST CROSSING GREEN STREET PROJECT -
TOWN OF NORTHEAST, MD
18,900 ft2 of bioretention cells
2,200 ft2 of wetlands installed
158 trees
3,247 ft of grass channels
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New East Crossing is a project
sponsored by Housing Initiative
Partnership, Inc.(HIP) in partnership
with The lngennan Group. HIP is an
innovative, green nonprofit devel-
oper based in Prince George's Co-
unty, MD, dedicated to revitalizing
neighborhoods and removing blight.
New East Crossing is a residential
development of garden-style apart-
ments that provides much needed
high quality, affordable housing to
families earning 30% to 60% of area
median income.
Development in this community
requires careful planning to mini-
mize the impact of development on
the Northeast River Watershed and
Chesapeake Bay. The proposed
development is less dense than
allowed by zoning, minimizing the
amount of the site that is developed.
In addition, the community build-
ings and the residential apartments
was built to meet Enterprise Green
Community Standards and Energy
Star 3.
In designing the storm water mana-
gement plan a variety of techniques
were used including bioretention
areas, enhanced wetlands, grass
channels, native plantings, and
under-developing the site.
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PROJECT ELEMENTS
•	Micro-Bioretention Captures and treats runoff from discrete
impervious areas by passing it through a filter bed mixture of sand,
soil, and organic matter.
•	Enhanced Filters - Uses a stone reservoir under a conventional
filtering device to collect runoff, remove nutrients, and allow
infiltration into the surrounding soil.
•	Swales ¦ Provide conveyance, water quality treatment, and flow
attenuation of stonnwater runoff.
•	Submerged Gravel Wetlands - Is a small-scale filter using wetland
plants in a rock media to provide water quality treatment.
•	Disconnection of Non-Rooftop Runoff - Involves directing flow
from impervious surfaces onto vegetated areas where it can soak into
or filter over the ground.
•	Pave Drain System allows for a more natural (vertical) infiltration
path, recharging local groundwater and reducing first flush
pollutants.
•	Rain Barrels Collect and store rainwater from roofs that would
otherwise be lost to runoff and diverted to storm drains and streams.
SUSTAINABILITY & GROWTH: ADDITIONAL GREEN
ACTIVITIES
The Housing Initiative Partnership, or HIP. has specialized and is
expanding its work combining focus on low income housing with
green initiatives. Many of its low income projects include green
components.
In 2003. HIP in partnership with the City of Mount Rainier
renovated a vacant, boarded up building hi the National Historic
District and turned it into a facility known as Artists' Housing.
The building underwent a "green" renovation featuring a green
roof, bioretention landscaping, tankless hot water heaters, and
bathroom tiles made out of recycled windshields. The project lias
won numerous awards, including the Washington Business
Journal's Best Real Estate Deals Award for Most Environmentally
Sustainable Project in the DC area.
In addition, HIP lias developed a green apartment building for low
income artists in Hyattsville with similar green features.
HIP took lessons learned from the project in Northeast, Maryland,
for use on a similar low income project in Cecilton, Maryland.
Project Partners: Housing Initiative
Partnership; McCrone, Inc; Hie Ingerman
Group; Chesapeake Bay Trust, MD
Department of the Environment; U.S.
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For additional information: visit wvwv.epa.gov and www.cbtrust.org.
G3 Grant - Design:
$17,690
G3 Grant - Construction:
$61,700
Match Contribution:
$1600
Status:
Completed
Artists' Housing Green Roof, Mount Rainier

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