aditya 🌱

This is a good time to point out that SF used to have many surface creeks that could handle a lot of water without flooding. But we've covered the entire city in impermeable placement and disrupted natural drainage

Islais Creek used to be on the surface all the way from Glen Park to the Bay, but they covered it to build Alemany Boulevard and put it in a culvert.

Bring back Laguna Dolores. Daylight Mission Creek, Islais Creek, Precita Creek, the creek under the Wiggle

https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Islais_Creek_Remembered

Islais Creek Remembered - FoundSF

Dec 31, 2022 at 10:52pmWeb
Show threadaditya 🌱Dec 31, 2022
As the climate continues to collapse, our relationship with water must change. We will have to get used to less water at some times, and much more water in others. Often both as extreme weather events get more common. Letting the ecosystem adapt and handle these changes will be crucial.
Show threadaditya 🌱Dec 31, 2022

We can start by daylighting culverted creeks. Strawberry Creek in Berkeley is a shining example. Once culverted all the way from the UC campus to the Bay, a section was restored in the 80s and made into a park. The benefits are enormous.

https://bayareamonitor.org/article/let-there-be-light-creeks-gain-visibility-through-restoration/

#ecology #conservation #watershed

Let There Be Light: Creeks Gain Visibility Through Restoration - Bay Area Monitor

Stroll through just about any of the cities ringing the San Francisco Bay and you’re likely walking on water. Not literally, of course. Rather, chances are that somewhere along your way, there’s a stream running beneath your feet. As land around the Bay was developed, creeks were rerouted underground through pipes called culverts for flood […]

Bay Area Monitor
Show threadJeanEvergreenJan 1, 2023
@bambipotf I'd never heard of "daylighting" creeks. Wondering about a creek near my house in Monterey. Thx for posting this
Show threadChuck PurvisJan 1, 2023
@bambipotf strawberry Creek is so beautiful! I’d love to see photos or videos at this location today, or tomorrow if conditions permit. Stay safe. #EarthAbides
Show threadaditya 🌱Jan 1, 2023

@charleypurvis here's the creek doing its job today!!

https://twitter.com/Quinn_110/status/1609286963605147650

Alexander Quinn on Twitter

“Strawberry creek park. Berkeley waterways in action. Imagine if this extended further throughout Central Berkeley.”

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Show threadlisa cJan 2, 2023
@bambipotf I'd love to see these daylighted.
Show threadZack Subin 🏳️‍🌈Jan 1, 2023
@bambipotf would be amazing to combine these with linear parks for walking and biking!
Show threadmeekorouseJan 1, 2023
@bambipotf Fun thing to check out is Joel Pomerantz's "Seep City" map: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~289777~90061644:Seep-City,-Map-of-Water-Exploration
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Show threadJack Coates 🐀Jan 1, 2023
@bambipotf the thing about culverted creeks in urban environments is, they’ve got houses on top of them…
Show threadaditya 🌱Jan 1, 2023

@puercomal I mean longer term it should be on the table to restore the stream and build dense somewhere else. but I get your point. others have highways over them (280/Cesar Chavez is an example), could tear them down like South Korea did

https://www.cnu.org/what-we-do/build-great-places/cheonggye-freeway

Cheonggye Freeway — #thisisCNU

High-volume expressways were a symbol of economic progress after the Korean War in South Korea. In Seoul, “progress” came with an ecological cost. In 1968, an elevated freeway covered up the Cheonggye Creek, which ran through a rapidly urbanizing Seoul, hiding the features of its historical waterfront. As the economy thrived, cars filled up the expressway. Just three decades later, the surrounding Cheonggye area recorded highest levels of noise and congestion in the city.

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Show threadJonJan 1, 2023
@bambipotf Judging by what I recall of the SF city museum, much of SOMA was basically a swamp in the late 1800s.
Show threadMilesaboveitJan 2, 2023

@bambipotf there are simply too many people on the planet with too few resources distributed equally for everyone.

Abortions should be required globally unless you are married, have adequate income to support the family, and don't have a history of mental illness

Show threadaditya 🌱Jan 2, 2023
@milesaboveit get this ecofascism out of my mentions. rich people in the West pollute far more than poor people in the Global South. we have enough resources, we just have too many capitalists