SCE was selected by the City of Elizabeth to provide engineering and landscape architecture design services for the preparation of construction drawings and construction observation and administration services for the improvements to Miller Park. The site was treated as a blank canvas and was completely re-designed. Improvements included a new basketball and volleyball courts, exercise station area, splash pad, playground equipment for 2-5-year-olds and 5-12-year-olds, multiple seating areas, center shade structure, extensive landscaping, maintenance building, walkways, entry portals, stormwater management and site furnishings.
The Green Infrastructure (GI) elements designed and installed collect runoff from the spray park, as well as storm water runoff from the pathways, the gazebo and picnic area and disperses the runoff via a system of subsurface PVC pipes to the landscaping located throughout the park's southern and western perimeters. The water is distributed through a gravity system that does not require any pumps or energy to enable the system to perform similar to a drip irrigation system. SCE also designed two "demonstration" rain gardens in the park that collect and infiltrate storm water. These GI elements reduce the overall quantity of stormwater that would flow into the City's Combined Sewer Outfall (CSO) system. Educational signage at the site explains the process of water infiltration and reuse of stormwater for irrigation purposes and the ability to use the stormwater runoff as a resource for the park. Portions of the park include pervious synthetic turf surfaces that collect stormwater, provide storage in the stone layer beneath the synthetic turf, and promote infiltration into the existing soils on the site. Facilities such as the volleyball court and adjacent landscape include synthetic turf surfaces with stone subgrades and subsurface infiltration basins under the synthetic turf court top reduce stormwater leaving the site and entering the City's combined sewer system.

List of Contractors, Designers, Consultants:

 
???EUR??? Suburban Consulting Engineers, Inc. - Engineering & Landscape Architecture Consultant & Designer
???EUR??? Zenith Construction Services, Inc. - General Contractor
???EUR??? Ben Shaffer & Associates - Entry Portal Structures and Play Equipment
???EUR??? BCI Burke Playground Equipment
???EUR??? Icon Gazebo
???EUR??? Greenfields Outdoor Fitness


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