Article: SFGate - Home & Garden: In El Cerrito, taming runoff
GARDEN / In El Cerrito, taming runoff
home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton,Ron Sullivan)
Posted: 01/03/2010 4:00 AM
home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton,Ron Sullivan)
Posted: 01/03/2010 4:00 AM
In El Cerrito, taming runoff
Although the small East Bay city of El Cerrito keeps a low profile, it's the home of a quiet revolution in urban landscaping. Following the lead of Portland and Seattle, El Cerrito is managing storm water with low-impact design features like bioswales and rain gardens, in which plants help remove pesticides, petrochemicals and heavy metals from runoff before it enters the soil. The idea, as Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center's Water Institute puts it, is to "slow the water down, spread the water out, and sink the water into the land."
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Although the small East Bay city of El Cerrito keeps a low profile, it's the home of a quiet revolution in urban landscaping. Following the lead of Portland and Seattle, El Cerrito is managing storm water with low-impact design features like bioswales and rain gardens, in which plants help remove pesticides, petrochemicals and heavy metals from runoff before it enters the soil. The idea, as Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center's Water Institute puts it, is to "slow the water down, spread the water out, and sink the water into the land."
Read more here...
Learn more
"Slow It, Spread It, Sink It": Video featuring Brock Dolman on San Francisco Estuary Partnership's Web site, www.sfestuary.org/gallery.