Brilliant! In urban Boston, rivers such as Alewife Brook in Cambridge/Somerville and Townline Brook in Everett/Revere are lined with cement, essentially big open stormwater culverts. Phragmites take root in the sediments on top of the cement, slowing the water down. This is a problem along Alewife because the state has constructed a walking path along the river that becomes flooded with CSO-contaminated water. With the land thirsty when water is flushed away, and people less healthy when the water is slowed in waterways, we are advocating for state legislation that aims to improve the watershed as a sponge. The Earth Rehydration Drought Relief Bill will tax property owners for impervious surfaces and provide grants to property owners for installing permeable pavers, swales, rain gardens, and Miyawaki forests. Ultimately, property owners must recognize their land’s right to the rainwater that falls on it. That water must be returned to the land, if only through cisterns and French drains. Instead, the water is flushed down to the municipality to be managed as stormwater at great expense to everyone, including plants, except the property owners. That’s not right.
I was just searching for your excellent, very comprehensive review of small water cycle papers and all. I got half way through it over lunch and then lost it. What is the url address?
Any issues with this in floodways or flood plains? I can see some well meaning but tricky unintended consequences if folks start this in areas that already have issues with flooding.
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The dynamic hydraulic engine is good perspective
Thank you
This dynamic hydraulic engine is the root to the ‘Move the Water!’ initiative.
Active Climate Rescue Initiative proposes repositing ocean-water via gravity-flow into already-salty, below-sea-level, dry-depressions in deserts.
Once there the dynamic hydraulic engine will work its wonders and create cooling and many other benefits.
See this 2-minute-short video for a brief explanation:
https://youtu.be/bjHxkxRWAs0
Brilliant! In urban Boston, rivers such as Alewife Brook in Cambridge/Somerville and Townline Brook in Everett/Revere are lined with cement, essentially big open stormwater culverts. Phragmites take root in the sediments on top of the cement, slowing the water down. This is a problem along Alewife because the state has constructed a walking path along the river that becomes flooded with CSO-contaminated water. With the land thirsty when water is flushed away, and people less healthy when the water is slowed in waterways, we are advocating for state legislation that aims to improve the watershed as a sponge. The Earth Rehydration Drought Relief Bill will tax property owners for impervious surfaces and provide grants to property owners for installing permeable pavers, swales, rain gardens, and Miyawaki forests. Ultimately, property owners must recognize their land’s right to the rainwater that falls on it. That water must be returned to the land, if only through cisterns and French drains. Instead, the water is flushed down to the municipality to be managed as stormwater at great expense to everyone, including plants, except the property owners. That’s not right.
Thanks for sharing. Yeah we need to restore the areas next to rivers
Hi Alpha Lo,
I was just searching for your excellent, very comprehensive review of small water cycle papers and all. I got half way through it over lunch and then lost it. What is the url address?
Thank you for your thoughtful thoroughness. Rob
Here it is https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/the-seminal-papers-on-water
Thank you👍
Bravo Water!
Very interesting and hopeful. Thanks for sharing.
yeah quite hopeful :)
Any issues with this in floodways or flood plains? I can see some well meaning but tricky unintended consequences if folks start this in areas that already have issues with flooding.
This is usually done further upstream where flows are still smaller. You should probably do it where it’s ok for creek to spill over into floodplains