{"id":692,"date":"2018-10-25T16:50:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/?p=692"},"modified":"2018-10-25T16:58:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:58:01","slug":"talk-at-community-forum-on-the-wissahickon-epa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/2018\/10\/25\/talk-at-community-forum-on-the-wissahickon-epa\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk at Community forum on the Wissahickon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was part of a panel to talk to the community about a coalition to develop a water quality improvement plan for the Wissahickon Creek.\u00a0 The creek is challenged due to its urban setting and it will take a community effort to control stormwater.\u00a0 The coalition includes municipalities, wastewater treatment plant operators, watershed organizations, and my research group at Temple University.\u00a0 Our role is to come up with a science basis for the plan.\u00a0 We told the audience about our intense two-year monitoring effort and described how impervious cover leads to urban runoff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2018\/10\/IC-Wiss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-694\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2018\/10\/IC-Wiss-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2018\/10\/IC-Wiss-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2018\/10\/IC-Wiss-768x905.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2018\/10\/IC-Wiss-869x1024.jpg 869w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2018\/10\/IC-Wiss.jpg 1951w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2018\/10\/runoff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-695\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2018\/10\/runoff-300x129.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2018\/10\/runoff-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2018\/10\/runoff-768x331.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2018\/10\/runoff-1024x441.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graphics courtesy of Sarah Beganskas (new postdoc mentioned in previous post)!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was part of a panel to talk to the community about a coalition to develop a water quality improvement plan for the Wissahickon Creek.\u00a0 The creek is challenged due to its urban setting and it will take a community &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/2018\/10\/25\/talk-at-community-forum-on-the-wissahickon-epa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}