The New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation · NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation October 24, 2012 The Environmental Facilities Corporation Clean Water State Revolving

Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor Joseph Martens, Chairman Matthew J. Driscoll, President

The New York State

Environmental Facilities Corporation

Funding for Stormwater Management Southern Tier Stormwater Symposium

Radisson Hotel, Corning NY

October 24, 2012

Fishable

Swimmable

Drinkable

Clean Water Act

Source: Google Maps

Source: Google Maps

Source: Google Maps

Source: NYS DEC

Source: Blue Neils

Wellness Center

Sugarloaf, PA Heinz 57 Center

Pittsburgh

Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems

Source: Philadelphia Water Department

Combined Sewer Overflows

Grey Approaches

Green Approaches

NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation October 24, 2012

New York’s Water Infrastructure

Backbone of our Communities

Retains Business and Industry

Foundation of Economic

Development

Protects Water Resources

Provides Better Place to Live

and Play


The Environmental Facilities Corporation

Clean Water State Revolving Fund

Provides financial assistance for wastewater and water quality infrastructure

Drinking Water State Revolving Fund

Provides financial assistance for drinking water infrastructure

Providing Low-cost Financing and Technical Assistance to Municipalities, Businesses, and

NY State Agencies for Environmental Projects


How SRF Programs Work


SRF Funding

Clean Water Drinking Water

Leveraged rate financing with 50%

subsidy for up to 30 years

Leveraged rate financing with 33%

subsidy for up to 20 years

Hardship financing as low as 0% interest

for up to 30 years

Grants up to $2 million for hardship

projects + financing as low as 0%

interest for up to 30 years

Subsidy financing determined on priority scoring system, based on water quality

and public health

Short-term financing for 3 years at 0% interest

Market Rate Programs (AAA tax free rate)

Fund components of project that are “green”


CWSRF Scoring (Categories A – E)

Priority Ranking Criteria Existing Source Criterion

Water Quality Improvement Classification Points Factor

Impairment Factor

Potential Improvement Factor

Consistency With the Goals of Management Plans

Intergovernmental Needs Enforcement or Open Space Plan

Construction Start

Financial Need (Municipal Projects Only)

Economic Need


ARRA FFY 09

• 2009 EPA PISCES Award

• $44.3 Million - 49 “Shovel-Ready” Water Quality Projects

GIGP 2 FFY 2010 funding

• $15 million for 33 green projects funded

Joined the Governor’s Consolidated Funding Application (CFA)

Available through http://nyworks.ny.gov/


• 2012 US EPA Environmental Quality Award

• $20 Million - 24 Green Infrastructure projects


• $13 Million for Green Infrastructure projects

• Announcement Fall 2012

Green Innovation Grant Program (GIGP)


GIGP: Eligible Applicants

Municipality

School district*

Soil and water conservation district*

Any corporation which is organized and existing under the laws of the

State of New York which is empowered to develop a project

Not-for-profit

Partnership

Association

* Only eligible for GIGP Grants under existing State laws.


What is EFC looking for?

Green Infrastructure: • Maintain, Restore, or Mimic Natural Systems to

Infiltrate, Evaporate or Recycle Stormwater


Protect and improve water quality

Spur innovation

Build green capacity - locally and beyond

Facilitate the transfer of new technologies

and practices to other areas of the State

Green Innovation Grant Program (GIGP)


GIGP Selection Criteria

44% Water Quality

Includes water quality metrics

36% Additional Benefits

Leverage resources

Spur innovation

Outreach and education

Plans for operation and maintenance

Community revitalization

Workforce development

20% Regional Economic Development Council

Endorsement

Porous Pavement

Porous Pavement Lindenhurst Library - Suffolk County

Source: Newsday

Images: Lindenhurst Library

Porous Pavement Lindenhurst Library - Suffolk County

• 157,000 Gallons / yr

• 728 Green Job hours

• Increased Community

Aesthetics

• Education and

outreach

• Hydrologic Performance

• Water Quality Performance

• Urban Heat Island Mitigation

• Maintenance Effects

• Parking Behavior

• Infiltrating Water Parameters

Edison Environmental Center

Edison, NJ

Image: US EPA

Measuring Water Quality…

Edison Environmental Center

Edison, NJ

Water Quality

Metrics

Source: Michelle C Adams “Porous Asphalt Pavement With Recharge Beds 20 Years

and Still Working” Stormwater Magazine May – June 2003

Stormwater Harvesting and Reuse

War Memorial Rainwater Reuse System Project Onondaga County

Capture Area: 44,000 Square Feet

Annual Capture: 400,000 Gallons/PY

Construction Cost: $1,600,000 (est.) Images: Onondaga County

Village Hall Stormwater Retrofit Greenwood Lake, NY

Images: Lehman and Getz Engineering








Image: Lehman and Getz Engineering

• 30% Impervious Surface

Reduction

• 2,180 Green Job hours


Aesthetics

• Education and Outreach

Bioretention

Bioretention Copake, NY

Downspout Disconnection

Green Roofs Chemung County, NY

Image: James Gensel Fagan Engineers

• 1,720 cu ft or 12,866

Gallons - Estimated

264,917 Gallons / yr

• 3,351 Green Job

Hours

• Education and

Outreach

• Urban Heat Island

Reduction

City of Yonkers

• Centerpiece of $18.5

Million Redevelopment

• Restores Habitat -4,000

sq ft Tidal Wetlands


Aesthetics

• Provides Recreational

opportunities

Daylighting the Sawmill River at Larkin Plaza

Stormwater Street Trees or Urban Forestry Programs

Images: City of Rome


North James Street, Rome, NY


Stormwater Street Trees and Urban Forestry Program

Stormwater Trees Pits Utica, NY

Image: City of Utica

Green Streets US EPA Municipal Handbook Series - Managing Wet Weather with Green Infrastructure: Green Streets

Source: Deep Root Partners, LP

Wetland Restoration in the NY

Susquehanna River Basin

Tioga, Schuyler, Cortland, Tompkins, and

Steuben Counties, NY Image: Melissa Yearick Tioga County SWCD

Wetland Restoration in the NY

Susquehanna River Basin

Tioga, Schuyler, Cortland, Tompkins, and

Steuben Counties, NY Image: Melissa Yearick Tioga County SWCD

Onondaga County Green Streets Philadelphia Green Streets

Maintenance, Maintenance, Maintenance...


Useful Life Requirement

Useful Life

(yrs)

Practice

15 Permeable Pavement

10 Rain Barrels / Cisterns

25 Green Roofs

25 Bioretention / bioinfiltration

10 Stormwater Street Trees

30 Stream daylighting / restoration

30 Wetland Restoration and Constructed Wetlands

40 New WWTP


Feasibility Study

Conceptual Site Plan

Project Location Map

Site Photographs

Apply through the Consolidated Funding

Application (CFA): http://nyworks.ny.gov/

Requirements


All contracts must comply with MWBE

EEO requirements and the prevailing

wage requirements under Article 8 of the

NYS Labor Law.

Point Source Projects must comply with

the provisions of Davis Bacon

Recipient must submit executed copies

of contracts.

Requirements

Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor Joseph Martens, Chairman Matthew J. Driscoll, President

www.efc.ny.gov

Financing for a Sustainable Future

Suzanna Randall, AICP Green Infrastructure Coordinator

[email protected]

NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation

625 Broadway

Albany, NY 12207

518-402-7461 or 1.800.200.2200 (within NYS)

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