Saturday, February 27, 2016

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Pictures of my recent visit to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County edible garden. The museum employs
stormwater infiltration system.

Throughout the garden one will find different  ground elevations that help direct the rainwater. 

Collects rainwater into ground water infiltration pits.
Swales that direct water to drains that connect to  and the grates that cover the 5’ wide by 40’ deep perforated infiltration pits


Drip irrigation. 


Cherry Blossom.



Museum's greywater system.  The black pole has a lever to switch from greywater system or sewer system


Thursday, February 18, 2016

Capstone Planning

This blog was set up to log the stages of my capstone project and share information about California water (drought, sources, sustainability, agencies, etc).  I have done more work on my capstone lately. Some of my activities were attending the US-Australia Dialogue on Water Mangement on Drought, Rep. Napolitano Stormwater Roundtable, and I got to participate in the installation of 865-gallon rainwater cistern.
The location where the cistern will be placed. A lot of roots  were cleared out and ground  leveled. 

After the concrete was removed.

More ground work.


Gravel added...a lot of gravel. 

865 Gallons

End result!

This was done at a private house, so I tried to take pictures discretely as possible.