Ballona Watershed: Bus Tour 2005 - Video
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BALLONA WATERSHED FLY-OVER IS A BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF A NEW VISION FOR LOS ANGELES(link is external)
www.youtube.com/watch?v5EOiBNlfbfQclfE5HDxOew
During one of this winter’s frequent storms, sheets of rainwater spilled from roofs, washed across sidewalks and down gutters into a sprawling network of underground storm drains that empty into the Los Angeles River channel. (Same goes for Ballona Flood Control Channel. Billions of gallons of rainwaterflow into the Pacific Ocean at Santa Monica Bay.)
You can reduce your water bill by capturing "free" rainwater.
Private homes cover 60% of our developed LA land mass.
TREES TAKE CARE OF EACH, THEY SHARE WITH EACH OTHER, THEY STORE WATER IN THEIR ROOT SYSTEMS
SUMMER 2019 | KEEPERS OF THE WATERS
BIOSWALES: WHAT ARE THEY?
Thanks to these natural runoff filtration structures, we don't have to choose between great landscape aesthetics and eco-friendly design.
Diagram by Julia Cauller
BIO-WHAT?
Bioswales are a unique green solution to the problem of contaminants in stormwater runoff. Bioswales slow down and collect polluted stormwater runoff and then filter it prior to returning it into the water cycle. They accomplish this filtration with the help of two natural processes: filtering water by passing it slowly through porous material, along with phytoremediation, where plants remove contaminants. Bioswales can contain sand, compost, and rock trenches along with native species of plants, which are adapted to local conditions. The inclusion of local plants is also important on an aesthetic and educational level: these plants blend in with the local environment and can serve as a tool to educate the public on issues of native biodiversity. Bioswales are a small but necessary remedy to the unmitigated proliferation of paved surfaces in our car- centric world. Parking lots especially create massive concrete plains incapable of absorbing or filtering stormwater.
To learn more about bioswales, check out the Soil Science Society of America: tiny.cc/soil-science-society
SWALE
/swāl/ • noun
a low or hollow place, especially a marshy depression between ridges.
WHAT DO BIOSWALES FILTER?
Silt
Organics
Pathogens
Harmful fertilizers
Metallic compounds such as mercury and lead
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Our web site adds pages to document many ways of capturing storm water, both private and public. Grassroots Coalition has been showcasing public sewer and storm water cleaning since 2005, when a Japanese Designer presented on her grand success with the first public park sewer plain earth filtering. This method is making headway here in the USA with a New York City first, called Sponge park. Details at the URL below.
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An article reference from Yes Magazine. Why is it included on this web site? The direction of short term change towards long term goals of Los Angeles Area water independence from imported water is half way told. It's just one journalist's research of many residential advocates in the LA neighborhood.
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MOST RECENT INFORMATION ABOUT OUR 127 SQUARE MILE BALLONA WATERSHED
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Protecting Clean Potable Water is the Central Issue.
At some point in the not too distant future we will need to choose between FOSSIL FUELS and WATER for farming, drinking, cooking, bathing, flushing the toilet, putting out forest fires, etc. Who knows how many open, unlined pits there are or the amount of illegal dumping or pumping is being done?
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Farmers and Kern County, California Commissioners' Meeting: Well Water Contamination California grows 2/3rds of the nations produce. Some farmers in the Central Valley farmers are buying recycled oil water from Chevron. Kiran visits the Central Valley's Cawelo Water District where the drought is causing farmers to use recycled oil water to irrigate their crops. She takes in the smells so you don't have to. This water is toxic. It can have 1 or more of 450 chemicals that oil companies use to bring oil to the surface. Hungry Now? Published on Feb 2, 2016.
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Architect Anders Nyquist from Sweden says it all. Conservation is key. Very effective and efficient use of energy and resources for sustainable living.
Part 1 of 5 - 12 minutes
Part 2 of 5 - 28 minutes
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Bakken Shale Oil Field in North Dakota
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/bakken-shale-oil/dobb-text
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More to come... check weekly
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VIDEO of Kern County, California County Commissioners Meeting
Farmers in Kern County, CA Complain about Water Contamination in Well Water Killing Their Almond and Cherry Trees