{"id":219314,"date":"2010-01-20T15:39:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=8315"},"modified":"2010-01-20T15:39:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:39:56","slug":"navy-initiates-green-development-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/219314","title":{"rendered":"Navy initiates green development policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8317\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 218px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8317\" title=\"Navy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Navy.gif\" alt=\"Photo: Navy.org\" width=\"208\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Navy.org<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>With 40 installations in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesapeakebay.net\/\" >Chesapeake Bay<\/a> watershed alone, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/swf\/index.asp\" >United States Navy<\/a> has an enormous\u00a0 environmental impact on the region.\u00a0New\u00a0construction and regular improvements\u00a0of existing \u00a0facilities pose a major challenge in terms of limiting damage to the local ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Development in the\u00a0region is increasing the number of impervious surfaces (roofs, driveways, parking lots, etc.) at a rate four times greater than population growth. As a result, stormwater runoff has become a major threat in terms of polluting the Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy has developed a low-impact policy aimed at maintaining or restoring pre-development hydrology. Using a combination of vegetation and retention devices, stormwater is managed at the source rather than allowing the water to travel downstream.<\/p>\n<p>The overall goal: No net increase in stormwater volume or sediment and nutrient loading from new projects.<\/p>\n<p>Those low-impact efforts are part of a broader Sustainable Infrastructure Program currently being implemented. The program\u00a0serves to integrate environmental stewardship into all energy programs, asset management, capital improvements and public works management.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a parking lot at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/facility\/norfolk.htm\" >Naval\u00a0Station Norfolk<\/a> capped a waste disposal area and now bio-filters stormwater. Implementation of all major contruction projects will require low-impact techniques by 2011.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Helvetica';\">Copyright \u00a9 2010 Green Right Now | Distributed by GRN Network<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Green Right Now Reports Photo: Navy.org With 40 installations in the Chesapeake Bay watershed alone, the United States Navy has an enormous\u00a0 environmental impact on the region.\u00a0New\u00a0construction and regular improvements\u00a0of existing \u00a0facilities pose a major challenge in terms of limiting damage to the local ecosystem. Development in the\u00a0region is increasing the number of impervious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}