Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 47.56
Liaison Tony Gillund
Submission Date Jan. 21, 2014
Executive Letter Download

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The Ohio State University at Lima
PAE-4: Sustainability Plan

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 3.00 Marc Pescosolido
Facilities Superintendent
Facilities
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Does the institution have a sustainability plan that meets the criteria for this credit?:
Yes

A brief description of how multiple stakeholder groups were involved in developing the plan:

Ohio State Lima and Rhodes State College co-developed a 2008 Master Plan that addresses sustainability as “the goal to guide all current decisions about campus growth.”


A brief description of the plan’s measurable goals :

1--“maintain a comprehensive drainage system for the campus, including water detention and retention facilities, according to best management practices.”
2—“retain and enhance the woodland image as an important, defining identity for the campus.”
3—“use activities to promote and publicize the academic campus and its institutions, and the amenities of the physical campus, including the natural areas that need continued protection.”


A brief description of how progress in meeting the plan’s goals is measured:

1--currently we retain rainwater at Keese Hall and direct it to a retention pond for use for watering and wildlife.
2—we maintain about 2 miles of natural trails. We are also working with a $100,000 donation to enhance a creek watershed and native prairie grass areas.
3—we have identified all the storm water inlet locations and marked them to warn the campus users of the potential to harm the water steam. We check these locations regularly to make sure we are in compliance.


The website URL where more information about the sustainability plan is available:
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The year the plan was developed or last updated:
2,008

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Excerpt from Lima Campus Master Plan 2008, page 7.

Sustainable Campus. The consequence of recognizing the campus’s natural areas is to site, design, and manage future growth in ways that will protect the resources for decades to come, and honor a tradition of environmental stewardship. The most frequently heard planning principle in support of a sustainable approach is to “build a pedestrian campus.”


Excerpt from Lima Campus Master Plan 2008, page 7.

Sustainable Campus. The consequence of recognizing the campus’s natural areas is to site, design, and manage future growth in ways that will protect the resources for decades to come, and honor a tradition of environmental stewardship. The most frequently heard planning principle in support of a sustainable approach is to “build a pedestrian campus.”

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