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Hospital Location # of bedsAlfred I. duPont Hospital for Children &Nemours Children's Clinic1600 Rockland Road 166Riverside Hospital 700 Lea Boulevard 42Saint Francis Hospital 7 th and Clayton Streets 107Select Specialty Hospital - WilmingtonW. 7 th and N ClaytonStreetsWilmington Veterans Affairs Medical Center 1601 Kirkwood Highway 58 beds, 60-bed NursingHome Care UnitWilmington Hospital (Christina Health CareSystem)Table 8.7. Hospitals in the City of Wilmington.Sources: American Hospital Directory, 2005; Christina Care Health System, 2005501 W. 14 th Street 250 licensed beds, plus 41licensed inpatient-beds35City of Wilmington Publics Works servicesThe City of Wilmington Department of Public Works was responsible for a wide range of services,including management of public property, refuse collection, street cleaning, street and sewermaintenance, transportation policy and planning, and waste water treatment (City of Wilmington,2004a). Unlike most other entities within Delaware, the City of Wilmington does not rely on Statefunds to provide these public services (City of Wilmington, 2003).In 2005, the City of Wilmington collected garbage, rubbish, and refuse in South Wilmington onMondays and Thursdays (City of Wilmington, 2004a). Trash left for collection was required to bestored in water-tight metal or plastic containers with lids. As of 2003, the City of Wilmington did notoffer a curbside recycling program; however, residents could drop off recycling at four designated“recycling igloos” located throughout the city, none of which are directly located in SouthWilmington (City of Wilmington, 2004a).The Department of Public Works was also responsible for street maintenance. In the City ofWilmington 2004 Capital Budget, the City designated nearly $1.4 million for the construction ofinternal circulation streets along Christina Landing (G. Kaminsky, personal communication, April25, 2005; City of Wilmington, 2004b).Civic and neighborhood organizationsAs of 2004, there were a total of 55 civic and neighborhood organizations within the City ofWilmington and registered with the City Department of Constituent Services. Of these 55organizations, three were located in South Wilmington: South Wilmington Community Council,Southbridge Civic Association, and the Neighborhood House (City of Wilmington, 2005b).Ch. 8: Public & community services 141
8.e. Water WorksThe City of Wilmington is the only major water utility in Delaware that does not have an allocationwithdrawal permit; rather, Wilmington has an entitlement that allows the city to take water (up to 55million gallons/day) from Brandywine Creek without paying charges to the Delaware River BasinCommission (City of Wilmington, 2004c). In 2004, the water system had a capacity of 44 milliongallons/day, but average usage was estimated at 26 million gallons/day (City of Wilmington, 2004c).In addition to serving as the water provider, the City of Wilmington was also the wastewater serviceprovider for South Wilmington; wastewater treatment was operated by Veolia Water North AmericaOperating Services (City of Wilmington, 2004c). From the City in 2004, average wastewater flowwas 80 million gallons/day, although the wastewater system had the capacity to treat up to 400million gallons of waste per day (City of Wilmington, 2004c). Also in 2004, the City of Wilmingtonheld a Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) permit todischarge 134 million gallons of wastewater/day (DNREC Permit #DE-0021320; City ofWilmington, 2004c).The City of Wilmington 2004 Capital budget allocated $525,000 for the construction of necessaryinfrastructure for the Christina Landing (G. Kaminsky, personal communication, April 25, 2005;City of Wilmington, 2004b).The location of storm, sanitation, and combined (storm and sanitation) sewer system pipes in SouthWilmington are shown in Figure 8.6. As of 2005, there were a total of 6.3 miles of sewer systempipes in South Wilmington; 2.8 miles of these pipes were part of the storm sewer system, 0.4 mileswere part of the sanitation sewer system, and 3.0 miles were combined system pipes (Table 8.8.).Sewer SystemStormSanitationCombinedTotalLength2.8 miles0.4 miles3.0 miles6.3 milesTable 8.8. Sewer system pipe lengths for South Wilmington.Source: Delaware Coastal Programs, 2005142South Wilmington Socioeconomic Profile
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Copies of this report may be obtain
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South Wilmington Census block group
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South Wilmington Census blocks stud
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Table of FiguresFigure 1.1. South W
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Figure 5.3. Percentages of owner- a
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Figure 9.1. South Wilmington police
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Table 4.3. Percent of populations i
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PrefaceThis socioeconomic profile r
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Chapter 1: IntroductionThis chapter
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The South Wilmington SAMP provides
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Figure 1.2. Illustration of Census
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South Wilmington Socioeconomic Prof
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Other dataThroughout this report, d
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The Christina River watershed also
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Chapter 8: Public and community dev
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Chapter 2: Demographic and Housing
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DRAFT: Not for distributionFigure 2
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DRAFT: Not for distributionIn 2000,
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DRAFT: Not for distributiona. Males
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South Wilmington City of Wilmington
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% Local family households80.070.060
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Chapter 3: Demographic Characterist
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Figure 3.1. The four Census block g
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Gender distributionIn South Wilming
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a. Males by age% Local female popul
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a. Males% Local male population age
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a. South Wilmington80.070.0MalesFem
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Household typesThe Census Bureau de
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45.040.0a. Family households39.737.
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60.056.954.752.5South WilmingtonCit
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100.090.094.2 94.1 93.4South Wilmin
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% Local population aged 5 years and
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a. Population aged 5-15 years% Disa
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Chapter 4: Employment and Residenti
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Overall, the majority of the popula
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% Local employed population18.016.0
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Journey to workThis section present
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% Local workers aged 16 years and o
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80.070.072.267.866.5South Wilmingto
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4.b. Residential Income Characteris
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The U.S. Census Bureau defines soci
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100.090.0South WilmingtonCity of Wi
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a. Residents with incomes below the
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a. Family households100.090.0South
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Chapter 5: Residential DevelopmentC
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Figure 5.1. The four Census block g
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Renter versus owner occupancyRenter
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a. Housing units with mortgages60.0
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Page 152 and 153: Public bus transportationPublic bus
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Page 158 and 159: VolumeTotal annual vessel calls 395
Page 160 and 161: Grades 4 - 6Grades 7 - 8Elbert Palm
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Page 177 and 178: % Local arrests45.040.035.030.025.0
Page 179 and 180: 35.0ArrestsComplaints33.330.027.8%
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Page 191 and 192: PropertyclassNumber Building assess
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