AI6YR BenTime Lapse Bioswale (need a lo-fi version of this 🤪 )
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James Nisbet 
In all my wisdom I accidentally left "auto delete after 2 years" activated and lost all my sweet #bioswale posts. Going to have to repair that damage.
This is a "rain train" - a series of rain gardens at descending elevations, connected by a concrete trough, which is fed from rooftop water.
It's designed to handle up to 135mm of rain per 24 hour period - a one in fifty year event in St Paul, Minnesota where this is located. Pretty innovative!
Must look awesome when it's raining
Bill MinarikA #CTVMontreal article today on the success of #SpongeParks and flooding control structures during this week's extreme rain event, by Alice Martin.
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-sponge-parks-soak-up-the-storm-1.6960397
Melancholic Mediocrity 
Another interesting #Bioswale article, this one delving into some ways to incorporate #bioswales into parking strip landscaping for both beauty and functionality.
While this article about #Portland parking strips does date back to 2011, I think most if not all the info is still accurate and a bonus is a distinct lack of stupid pop-up ads and subscription demands.
http://thegerminatrix.com/2011/06/19/bioswale-a-portland-neighborhood-cleans-its-water-together/
A #CBC article today on #spongeParks and flooding control structures in #Montreal, by Verity Stevenson and Kwabena Oduro.
#bioswale #greenInfrastructure #floodManagement
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/resilient-parks-sponges-dickie-moore-1.6961224
How Montreal hopes to better manage its rainwater with parks that act as sponges | CBC News
Dickie Moore is one of six parks the city has already created or revamped to be "resilient." The plan is to create these parks all over the city over the next few years to absorb the increasing amount of rainwater due to climate change.
Gladwyn d’Souza#BiodiversityCrisis: As #humans continue to #encroach on #wilderness lands like those near Lake Tahoe, incidents of #wildlife being injured or #killed by #vehicles have increased.
#DesertificationSpecies #RoadlessRule #RemoveRoads #RoadsKill #micromobility #15MinuteNeighbourhoods #bioswale #BeaverBeliever
This was an excellent article explaining the reasons why 'green infrastructure' such as the venerable #bioswale are more important than ever to the future of city planning.
Also thanks to the Helen Clark foundation for authoring a report to try to drive policy changes.
Shawn in Montreal@webuiltthiscity BTW the water park is more "blue-green" infrastructure. The water drains into the ground - along with storm water. You can see overflow sewers in the lower gardens behind if the water gets too high.
Used to be a gas station, owned at one time by the family of a celebrated Quebec singer-songwriter: https://montreal.ca/en/places/place-des-fleurs-de-macadam
A "blue-green alley" helped one lower Montréal district avoid floods during recent storm (in French)
Une « ruelle bleue-verte » à la rescousse dans Pointe-Saint-Charles: https://lp.ca/siJSir?sharing=true
#Montréal #francais #climatechange #floodmanagement #bioswale #greeninfrastructure
Pluies torrentielles à Montréal | Une « ruelle bleue-verte » à la rescousse dans Pointe-Saint-Charles
L’adaptation aux changements climatiques passe notamment par des solutions basées sur la nature, comme la « ruelle bleue-verte », un projet-pilote du sud-ouest de Montréal qui vise à rendre les infrastructures plus résilientes et diminuer les risques d’inondations.
