When you incorporate what #nature has been doing for eons in dealing with #floods like #greeninfrastucture into #engineering and #construction you reap what you sow: When San Francisco’s new Southeast Community Center opened in October, the three acres of parkland included an expansive #landscaped #bioswale that, in theory, would handle the #water running off even the most extensive storm. Less than a month later, the theory was put to the test... https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/storm-flood-landscape-weather-17732016.php
These Bay Area regions didn't flood in California's storms, here's why

Throughout the region, older streets and sidewalks and basements were swamped to varying...

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