Stormwater Management in Philadelphia & D.C.

An overview of Philadelphia and D.C.'s stormwater management plan.

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A crowed of masked volunteers raise yellow "grabbers" which will be used to pickup trash.

Volunteers raise up their grabbers which were supplied by Anacostia Riverkeeper before the cleanup at Pope Branch Park begins Saturday. (Isabel Miller/Medill News Service)

Medill News Service

Northwestern University

Essay | Phila-smell-phia: How one city is finding that climate change really stinks

Muddy brown waters fill what is presumably streets and lower levels of a parking garage, which stands behind a bank of trees. Two mid-height office buildings are in the background

Flooding took over the northeast after Tropical Storm Ida in early September 2021. These floodwaters are in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia's neighbor to the northwest. (Michael M Stokes/Flickr/Creative Commons 2.0)

Molly Kaiser

George Washington University

Ivy City: At the corner of development and gentrification

The Ivy City neighborhood in NE Washington DC. Pictured is the Hecht Warehouse, an old warehouse converted into an apartment building and shopping area. (Ted Eytan/ Flickr)

Connor Nash

Seattle, WA

Food injustice in D.C.: Reflections from the Grocery Walk