March 3, 2011

Kleingers & Associates awarded the
Urban Cooperator Award

Kleingers & Associates employees accepting the Urban Cooperator Award from the Butler County Soil & Water Conservation District.

(Hamilton, OH) Kleingers & Associates was recently awarded the Urban Cooperator Award from the Butler County Soil & Water Conservation District for outstanding efforts to minimize sediment pollution, prevent erosion, and property storm water management from development sites in Butler County. The award is given to Urban Cooperators who demonstrate a continuous ability to implement alternative best management practices and to make proactive decisions to conserve natural resources.

Kleingers has worked with the District on a number of projects with innovative storm water designs, including the new Talawanda High School where K&A incorporated bio retention swales throughout the parking lot and worked in partnership with the District to create the Mary and Leo Erik Environmental Education area. This partnership, with funding from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service along with donations and collaboration from many other contributors helped to create a conservation area that included two wetlands, an oak savannah, quail boarder buffers, a production farm field, and storm water run-off treatment next to the school to be used as an outdoor learning laboratory.

Kleingers has also worked with the District on the new Edgewood High School in the design of an innovative storm water treatment with a three staged infiltration system that includes bio-retentions within the parking lot and bio-remediation swales that ultimately infiltrate recharging the underlying aquifer in the final detention basin. Kleingers & Associates also donated the design work for an agricultural storm water treatment facility in the NW corner of the property that will also be used as an outdoor learning laboratory that includes: micropools, prairie mix habitat and tree plantings that will be funded through a River Network MillerCoors grant.

Working with the District, Kleingers also helped to organize a tour for staff to the Beckett Ridge Basin to observe an inline flow structure in operation as a water quality and quantity best management practice that the District may begin to recommend to its clients.

Kleingers & Associates continually works to provide insight and strives to continually implement best practices and make proactive decisions to help conserve natural resources.