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A Bureau of Environmental Services green street project in Northwest Portland calls for installing stormwater planters designed to filter runoff from nearby industrial areas.

BES staffers are in the early stages of designing the $137,000 Northwest Front Green Street Project, bureau spokesman Linc Mann said. Three stormwater planters will be built on Northwest Front Street near the intersection with Northwest 26th Avenue. The planters will be designed specifically to collect and filter stormwater in an area with lots of sediment, impervious surfaces and surrounding industrial uses, Mann said.

The project will help BES staffers figure out the best methods for installing green streets in industrial areas, which often have space and site constraints, harsh environments for plants and greater maintenance needs, he said. This could include using hardier plants able to survive in a highly paved and trafficked area and a planter structure capable of handling large amounts of sediment.

鈥淭his is a pilot project to see how this kind of stuff can be applied in other industrial and commercial areas,鈥� Mann said.

The planters installed on Northwest Front Street are anticipated to filter runoff from a 1.1-acre area and improve the quality of stormwater flowing into the Willamette River.

Design is scheduled to wrap up in February 2015, and construction is set to begin in June 2015.