Earlier this month, G3’s Pamela Berstler kicked-off the Metropolitan Water District’s Spring Expo 2011 seminars with a talk about rainwater harvesting to a full room of employees, agency reps, and people who wandered in from the blazing sun on the unseasonably hot day.
G3's Pamela Berstler at Met's Spring Expo 2011
While talking inside a room is great for motivating people to think about how to capture rainwater, the most fun and true learning is gained out in the landscape.
Anyone in Socal who wasn’t attending Bernard Trainor’s weekend with Pacific Horticulture in Monterey was down in the trenches with Brad Lancaster in Laguna Beach at the Anneliese School, courtesy of Transition Laguna and SEEDS.
Brad led a diverse team of volunteers, including G3 Qualified Trainer and Huntington Beach rep, Lenica Castner, Laguna Water Agency rep, Michelle Madriz, and Surfrider’s Paul Herzog, in creating infiltration areas for both gray water and rainwater.
SLOW, SPREAD, SINK IT!
Brad takes his mission of spreading the word of rainwater harvesting A-BUN-DANCE very seriously.
A (New Kind of) BUN-DANCE
Participants learned about earthworks for slowing, spreading, and sinking water around newly planted fruit trees and California native trees and shrubs. While everyone designed their garden area to maintain watershed balance, it was particularly important to make sure the 1/4″ per foot drop on the gutters also was maintained to move the roof water into the garden at the desired location.
Calculating Drop of The Gutters
