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SUMMARY:Sustainability Committee Webinar: Space to Grow
LOCATION:Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Sustainability Committee Webinar: Space to Grow\n\n04/22/26 12:00 PM CST\n - 04/22/26 12:30 PM CST\Description:\nSustainability Committee Webinar: MWRD Space to Grow Program - Greening Chicago Schoolyards\nWednesday, April 22, 2026\nNoon to 12:30 p.m.\nZoom Webinar\n\nSince 2014, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) has partnered with Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the Chicago Department of Water Management (CDWM), Healthy Schools Campaign (HSC) and Openlands to transform CPS schoolyards into dynamic places to learn and play, while also educating them on the importance of green infrastructure to manage stormwater. This program, known as Space to Grow, gives students and their neighbors living in low-income communities improved outdoor spaces to play. These permeable surface areas are equipped with new playgrounds, turf fields, rain gardens and other features designed to collect more rainfall and keep it out of the sewers. The permeable surfaces will reduce flooding, reduce the load on the combined sewer system, and encourage the use of green infrastructure techniques that soak up more stormwater by using natural solutions.\n \nSpeaker: Ky Ochsner, MWRD, Assistant Civil Engineer\n\nHosted by IWEA's Sustainability Committee\nMembers $10 | Nonmembers $20\n.5 PDH/TCH\n\nZoom webinar link will be forwarded by separate email the morning of April 22.\Location:\nZoom\n\n,
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Sustainability Committee Webinar: Space to Grow<br /><br />04/22/26 12:00 PM CST - 04/22/26 12:30 PM CST<br />Description:<br /><strong><font color="#20598e"><span style="font-size:18px">Sustainability Committee Webinar:&nbsp;MWRD Space to Grow Program - Greening Chicago Schoolyards</span></font><br />
Wednesday, April 22, 2026</strong><br />
<strong>Noon to 12:30 p.m.<br />
Zoom Webinar</strong><br />
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Since 2014, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) has partnered with Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the Chicago Department of Water Management (CDWM), Healthy Schools Campaign (HSC) and Openlands to transform CPS schoolyards into dynamic places to learn and play, while also educating them on the importance of green infrastructure to manage stormwater. This program, known as Space to Grow, gives students and their neighbors living in low-income communities improved outdoor spaces to play. These permeable surface areas are equipped with new playgrounds, turf fields, rain gardens and other features designed to collect more rainfall and keep it out of the sewers. The permeable surfaces will reduce flooding, reduce the load on the combined sewer system, and encourage the use of green infrastructure techniques that soak up more stormwater by using natural solutions.<br />
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<strong>Speaker: </strong>Ky Ochsner,&nbsp;MWRD,&nbsp;Assistant Civil Engineer<br />
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<strong>Hosted by IWEA's Sustainability Committee</strong><br />
Members $10 |&nbsp;Nonmembers $20<br />
.5 PDH/TCH<br />
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Zoom webinar link will be forwarded by separate email the morning of April 22.<br />Location:<br />Zoom<br /><br />,  
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