New York Watersheds Protection Plan
Location: New York Tri-State Metropolitan Region
Date Completed: 1995
Client: Regional Plan Association, New York, NY.
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New York City's drinking water supply is threatened by encroaching sprawl using individual septic systems.
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Dodson Associates, in collaboration with planners Robert Yaro, Joel Russell and Phil Herr, developed detailed plans for four communities located within New York City's sensitive upstate water supply reservoirs. Working closely with local officials and citizens, as well as New York City Department of Environmental Protection staff, the consultant team proposed practical solutions to conflicts between local property rights and New York City's public health concerns. Dodson Associates recommended site-specific land use patterns, natural sewage treatment technologies and site engineering techniques that enhance preservation of open space while preserving threatened drinking water resources. The project was featured as the cover story in the June, 1997 issue of Landscape Architecture. |
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Transformation of an industrial site into a new town center whose centerpiece is a natural systems wastewater treatment facility.
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A small hamlet served by natural systems sewage treatment: an alternative to large lot sprawl using polluting septic systems.
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