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In urban areas across the country, we've replaced trees and grass with pavement and concrete. Storm water runoff from these paved surfaces in cities can be saturated with harmful substances such as gasoline, oil and trash. We head to the inner city of Baltimore, Maryland where partners have joined forces to clean up the runoff flowing into the harbor and into the Chesapeake Bay.
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In urban areas across the country, we've replaced trees and grass with pavement and concrete. Storm water runoff from these paved surfaces in cities can be saturated with harmful substances such as gasoline, oil and trash. We head to the inner city of Baltimore, Maryland where partners have joined forces to clean up the runoff flowing into the harbor and into the Chesapeake Bay.
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Narration: At a school yard in the inner city of Baltimore MD, heavy machinery digs and churns amid a brutal summer heat.
JEFF BARRETT: Morning guys! (morning what’s happening brother)
MAN: Oh we’re just ripping up the blacktop putting some topsoil in.
Narration: The bulldozers are not putting in a new parking lot, they’re tearing it up.
JEFF BARRETT: They’re removing approximately I believe its 2.1 acres at this school of blacktop.
Narration: Jeff Barrett attended this school when he was a child.
JEFF BARRETT: Speaking from my personal past which is of course years at this school, we used to play baseball on this blacktop with hard rubber balls and aluminum bats, and if you fell, you fell on hard asphalt.
Narration: The asphalt being torn up will be replaced by grasses, trees, and gardens. As part of a pilot project that is bringing multiple partne...
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Promo: In the next Tales from Urban Forests, we see how ripping up asphalt in Baltimore City could mean a cleaner Chesapeake Bay.
Intro: In urban areas across the country, we’ve replaced trees and grass with pavement and concrete. Storm water runoff from these paved surfaces in cities can be saturated with harmful substances such as gasoline, oil and trash. We head to the inner city of Baltimore where partners have joined forces to clean up the runoff flowing into the harbor and into the Chesapeake Bay. SOUNDPRINT’s Katie Gott reports
Outro: Replacing trees with pavement not only means more polluted runoff, it also means hotter temperatures. In our next episode of Tales from Urban Forests, we’re off to Atlanta, also known as HOT-Lanta, to see how the city has become an urban heat island. This program is part of the ongoing series, Tales from Urban Forests. The series is produced by the SOUNDPRINT Media Center, and supported in part by American Forests and the U.S. Forest Service. For more information on the series, please visit trees.soundprint.org.
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