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In El Cerrito, taming runoff

Posted by: Maven on January 4, 2010 at 8:00 am

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

“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.”

A recent tour sponsored by the San Francisco Estuary Partnership and the Urban Creeks Council showed off El Cerrito’s new City Hall with its bioswale plantings, creek restoration projects and locations of planned sidewalk rain gardens. In December, we visited several of the stops with Lisa Owens Viani of the estuary partnership and Ann Riley of the Waterways Restoration Institute. … “

Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle by clicking here.

For more information, check out this extensive video and photo gallery from the San Francisco Estuary Partnership by clicking here.

January 4, 2010 · Filed Under Flood Control/Stormwater

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