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Connecting Trees to your Faucet
When it rains,
where will it drain?
Water Quantity
Water Quality
A typical roof can produce 1,260 gallons of
water from one inch of rain
Water Quantity & Quality
Upper Darby, August 1, 2004
Philadelphia
Drinking
Water
Treatment
Plants
Water treatment mimics natural processes.
Stream bank stability
Channel structure
Stream temperature
Food sources for stream life
Tree roots = more surface area
= more habitat for microbes, etc.
Leaves are a food source
Leaves enter by falling directly in and blowing
across the forest floor
DELAWARE RIVER WATERSHED
Illustration source: http://www.earthethics.com/states.htm
Schuylkill River
One of the rivers Philadelphians drink
Stream Orders
For every 10%
increase in forest
cover (in a drinking
water source area),
treatment and
chemical costs
decreased ~ 20%
American Water Works Association
2002 study
Sedimentation
Filtration
Flocculation - mixing
Disinfection