I hope the water crisis this year will finally get AZ residents to wake up and implement this necessary street renovation. This should be done in most cities
The books are excellent! You have completely changed my view and approach to water management on our 2 acres. By implementing some of the techniques, we no longer use our house water to irrigate our yard. That's huge for us because 100% of our water comes from collected rainwater. Thanks again Brad!
Seeing from Brazil. Congratulations mr. Brad Lancaster! Are you dooing a great job! God bless you and extend your life in Earth! We need people like you!
Nice idea. The only functional problem I see is you need 1x Brad Lancaster to set up the board. Maybe you could ask the city for a carefully-placed, dual-use speed hump instead? Slow traffic and spread the water around! The positive benefit could easily outlive the designer :) Thanks again for the great book - highly recommend to anyone who stumbles on this channel!!!
It’s pretty cool to see the basins filled up. Here in Mexico City they did something similar in an avenue but instead of making the basins deep they filled them up with soil, so they don’t really work, it’s a shame
Kind of negates the whole point. Saw something similarly flawed in Australia. Most of the soil was higher than street level. They were also weirdly preoccupied with screening out sediment.
Saw where other swales had inlets AND downstream outlets and they were losing mulch and debris out the downstream outlet. They were design failures (occured in NYC, other places). Glad we have you as a source for improved design. I think the wilder-looking basins look great. Been missing you! Love seeing the new content. Would love too see any ranches, etc transformed by your techniques. I take it using street trees watered with street runoff for tapping for sap would be a bad idea. What about leaves? Are street-runoff-watered, otherwise-edible leaves safe to eat? Are you coming out with a 3th edition of the 2nd book? (Bought the first editions , definitely want to get the updated version) (You poor man! Half the time we see you and you're soak-y wet, teaching us good things.)
I think this could be used in Arizona as “Alley cropping”. Replace the street with a crop and now you have a native forest on both sides of the farmable lane eventually creating a tall, shade bringing native forest that can help keep moisture on the crop. Farmers are happy and we get giant strips of native forest throughout arizona again
I would love to see native forests and river habitat reappear but unfortunately farming won’t stop in the Midwest. This could still be an easy transition as long as the alleys are wide enough for the harvesting machinery the alley crops will be only beneficial to the farmer. Even if they continue to flood irrigate we could benefit from alley cropping and it would be a step in the right direction
It could be applied to ranching as well. Native grass alleys in between strips of native forests. In this example the areas between the trees could be large sealed that harvest water and when they dry create long strips of grassland for forage. Just ideas?
@@definitelyevan3974 This could function like the old common lands, where anyone in the village was allowed to graze one cow on the common. That way, the local people have incentive to do what's right for the environment.
Thanks for the video Brad 🙂👍. I'm in casa grande, az and love you books. I have a 1 acre property and have been implementing some rain water harvesting techniques. It's amazing. Early days still, I have many more areas to improve and much to learn. Thanks 🙏 for the knowledge.
Hey Brad, hope you are well! You said that the city has legalized curb cuts and you've shown one example in a video. Do you think you could do a drive-around town video to show more of these new installations? Cheers!!
I love you Brad!! You and your crew! I’m have your 2 main books, but they are currently packed (I was planning to move)…I’m getting ready to unpack them and dive into a school project. Any advice on how this works in a more wet climate such as San Francisco? I’ve taken quite a few classes and have much experience..but I live in the desert and my classmates live in San Francisco…I’m trying to make a design to show them that involves curb cuts and tree plantings in SF neighborhoods, only theoretical as of now. Any advice from anyone is welcome! Thank you infinitely, your work really warms my heart and gives so much hope and joy…
It seemed like the SouthWest was getting excessive rain and flash floods. I was wondering how your projects were doing with all the extra rain. Any more updates in town or out in the country would be great. Did you have any blow outs where things had to be redone? Also noted there didn’t seem to be much improvements by the student housing complex to the chicane that you pointed out. Is that project coming soon? Or are there zoning/landowner issues?
This is impressive ! Glad you are doing this. Do you happen to have ’before’ pictures of that street ? If no no biggy but i would be great you start doing yearly /seasonally pictures ! Ps i’m pretty sure i’m not exxagerating whhen i say some highways in Europe are less wide than this residential street. Do you all drive MACK trucks ?! Ha ha !
It would help a LOT in the street-side context. In farms and ranches they too can harvest road runoff. See link below for dirt road examples: www.harvestingrainwater.com/gallery/water-harvesting-from-dirt-roads-image-gallery/ CA farms should also look into "flood-MAR" where appropriate: water.ca.gov/programs/all-programs/flood-mar
On days when it doesn't rain does all the extra vegitation have a noticeable effect on the tempreture of the block compared to the other blocks? Also does the air smell better? I have noticed (absolutely not the only one by a long way) that bussy traffic roads have highly noticable vehicle fumes, so hoping that between the traffic calming measures and more plants that there should be a difference.
Just moved to Tucson to the Bronx Park neighborhood and we desperately need some of this magic. I'd love to get it started with my own home - do you happen to offer consultations?
Brad we gotta get you some ear buds or something so the sound is better. Your neighborhood is a tourist destination in my book. Did you have to get a permit to divert the water like that in the street with the cones and everything?
Such an interesting concept. Are the basins as effective over time, like 5-10 years? I imagine as the mulch breaks down and turns into soil the basins would absorb less water?
Would imagine 'mining' for the silt would be easy because it is kept soft by mulch, then just put the silt in a spot where you would be doing a new planting (if clearing silt from a streetside bioswale avoid using the silt in an area for annuals).
The get MORE effective over time. As roots grow and more soil life burrows the rain gardens speed up the rate at which they can absorb water and the subsurface life holds onto it longer into the dry season
He lead by example. It was a dry barren area, and he turned his own lot it into a green lush garden. People liked it and asked how he'd done it. If more people start harvesting water, it gives a podium to talk with the county/municipality. They saw that harvesting water lead to less stormwater problems downstream. So they legalized cutting curbs with a simple permit and made brochures how to harvest water yourself. New developments are obliged to harvest water. You can watch the older videos to see more.
Hey Brad, we have slightly different curbs in scottsdale... I don't think they would let us cut the curb but maybe the curb core would work. I don't know if you're familiar with the curbs in scottsdale/phx... how do I get permission to do this and what are the key words I should use to influence the city to allow it (if they automatically don't).
Share my books and the linked resources below with your Scottsdale officials www.harvestingrainwater.com/water-harvesting/harvests-of-different-waters/stormwater-street-runoff-harvesting/
Probably is, but the city probably has to think of the trade offs- they could come out on a holiday weekend, in the rain, to enforce an unauthorized temporary street lane blockage that’s replenishing the groundwater in an area dealing with drought and water table issues … or they could just deal with it if it’s still there and if anybody has complained come the next business day.
Every city, town, village needs a Brad Lancaster.
I hope the water crisis this year will finally get AZ residents to wake up and implement this necessary street renovation. This should be done in most cities
Slow it, spread it, sink it! Love what you are doing! Awesome to see it in action.
The books are excellent! You have completely changed my view and approach to water management on our 2 acres. By implementing some of the techniques, we no longer use our house water to irrigate our yard. That's huge for us because 100% of our water comes from collected rainwater. Thanks again Brad!
Seeing from Brazil. Congratulations mr. Brad Lancaster! Are you dooing a great job! God bless you and extend your life in Earth! We need people like you!
After a long time
Love from Pakistan
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Nice idea. The only functional problem I see is you need 1x Brad Lancaster to set up the board.
Maybe you could ask the city for a carefully-placed, dual-use speed hump instead? Slow traffic and spread the water around! The positive benefit could easily outlive the designer :)
Thanks again for the great book - highly recommend to anyone who stumbles on this channel!!!
you're a rockstar! keep harvesting
Love this less passive but "active" water harvesting technique to increase your watershed!
It’s pretty cool to see the basins filled up. Here in Mexico City they did something similar in an avenue but instead of making the basins deep they filled them up with soil, so they don’t really work, it’s a shame
Kind of negates the whole point. Saw something similarly flawed in Australia. Most of the soil was higher than street level.
They were also weirdly preoccupied with screening out sediment.
I’ve learned so much from your vids, I need to get the books!!
You can get my books at deep discount direct from me at link below:
www.harvestingrainwater.com/shop/
Saw where other swales had inlets AND downstream outlets and they were losing mulch and debris out the downstream outlet. They were design failures (occured in NYC, other places). Glad we have you as a source for improved design.
I think the wilder-looking basins look great.
Been missing you! Love seeing the new content. Would love too see any ranches, etc transformed by your techniques.
I take it using street trees watered with street runoff for tapping for sap would be a bad idea. What about leaves? Are street-runoff-watered, otherwise-edible leaves safe to eat?
Are you coming out with a 3th edition of the 2nd book? (Bought the first editions , definitely want to get the updated version)
(You poor man! Half the time we see you and you're soak-y wet, teaching us good things.)
Always a pleasure to see a new video from you. You are doing good work.
good job
I think this could be used in Arizona as “Alley cropping”. Replace the street with a crop and now you have a native forest on both sides of the farmable lane eventually creating a tall, shade bringing native forest that can help keep moisture on the crop. Farmers are happy and we get giant strips of native forest throughout arizona again
I would love to see native forests and river habitat reappear but unfortunately farming won’t stop in the Midwest. This could still be an easy transition as long as the alleys are wide enough for the harvesting machinery the alley crops will be only beneficial to the farmer. Even if they continue to flood irrigate we could benefit from alley cropping and it would be a step in the right direction
It could be applied to ranching as well. Native grass alleys in between strips of native forests. In this example the areas between the trees could be large sealed that harvest water and when they dry create long strips of grassland for forage. Just ideas?
@@definitelyevan3974 This could function like the old common lands, where anyone in the village was allowed to graze one cow on the common. That way, the local people have incentive to do what's right for the environment.
I love your videos and books! They changed how I look at things. I tell people all the time to check out your channel!
Thanks for the video Brad 🙂👍. I'm in casa grande, az and love you books. I have a 1 acre property and have been implementing some rain water harvesting techniques. It's amazing. Early days still, I have many more areas to improve and much to learn. Thanks 🙏 for the knowledge.
This is great.
Regards from Sweden
Fantastic work!
Amassing and congratulations 🙌✨✨✨
Hey Brad, hope you are well! You said that the city has legalized curb cuts and you've shown one example in a video. Do you think you could do a drive-around town video to show more of these new installations? Cheers!!
Thanks Brad!
I love you Brad!! You and your crew! I’m have your 2 main books, but they are currently packed (I was planning to move)…I’m getting ready to unpack them and dive into a school project. Any advice on how this works in a more wet climate such as San Francisco?
I’ve taken quite a few classes and have much experience..but I live in the desert and my classmates live in San Francisco…I’m trying to make a design to show them that involves curb cuts and tree plantings in SF neighborhoods, only theoretical as of now.
Any advice from anyone is welcome! Thank you infinitely, your work really warms my heart and gives so much hope and joy…
When's part 3 of the series going to be available? I'll buy ASAP.
Did you find out yet? I am also looking for volume 3
@@SonjaSannert Nope. We just need to keep checking the website I suppose. Best of luck. 😎🤙
It seemed like the SouthWest was getting excessive rain and flash floods. I was wondering how your projects were doing with all the extra rain. Any more updates in town or out in the country would be great. Did you have any blow outs where things had to be redone? Also noted there didn’t seem to be much improvements by the student housing complex to the chicane that you pointed out. Is that project coming soon? Or are there zoning/landowner issues?
I'd love to see how excessive rains and flash floods are having fewer bad impacts in neighborhoods in Tucson.
Fantastic!
This is impressive ! Glad you are doing this. Do you happen to have ’before’ pictures of that street ? If no no biggy but i would be great you start doing yearly /seasonally pictures !
Ps i’m pretty sure i’m not exxagerating whhen i say some highways in Europe are less wide than this residential street. Do you all drive MACK trucks ?! Ha ha !
Would love your perspective on how much this could be helping in CA right now and how this impacts the aquifer (s).
It would help a LOT in the street-side context.
In farms and ranches they too can harvest road runoff.
See link below for dirt road examples:
www.harvestingrainwater.com/gallery/water-harvesting-from-dirt-roads-image-gallery/
CA farms should also look into "flood-MAR" where appropriate:
water.ca.gov/programs/all-programs/flood-mar
so smart! thank you for sharing
My hero. 👍
Loved this!
Thank you.
great info . from a fan. have both books.
Love your videos and totally fascinated with your content- get you some kind of mic though, audio isn't awesome. :D
On days when it doesn't rain does all the extra vegitation have a noticeable effect on the tempreture of the block compared to the other blocks? Also does the air smell better? I have noticed (absolutely not the only one by a long way) that bussy traffic roads have highly noticable vehicle fumes, so hoping that between the traffic calming measures and more plants that there should be a difference.
See linked video below for how temperatures are affected:
ruclips.net/video/uyD4N_RXvb8/видео.html
Awesome video do you need permit for this or it depends on where you lived
Just moved to Tucson to the Bronx Park neighborhood and we desperately need some of this magic. I'd love to get it started with my own home - do you happen to offer consultations?
Brad we gotta get you some ear buds or something so the sound is better. Your neighborhood is a tourist destination in my book. Did you have to get a permit to divert the water like that in the street with the cones and everything?
Hiya Brad. What's up with the third volume of your books? Going through an edition upgrade, waiting for a reprint, or gone away?
Did you find out yet?
@@SonjaSannert Nope
Volume 3 was never released. I'm still working on it. No ETA to report as of yet.
@@HarvestingRainwater Good to know, thanks!
Such an interesting concept. Are the basins as effective over time, like 5-10 years? I imagine as the mulch breaks down and turns into soil the basins would absorb less water?
Would imagine 'mining' for the silt would be easy because it is kept soft by mulch, then just put the silt in a spot where you would be doing a new planting (if clearing silt from a streetside bioswale avoid using the silt in an area for annuals).
Plenty of leaf litter to replace it every year.
The get MORE effective over time. As roots grow and more soil life burrows the rain gardens speed up the rate at which they can absorb water and the subsurface life holds onto it longer into the dry season
How did you persuade all your neighbours to join in?
He lead by example. It was a dry barren area, and he turned his own lot it into a green lush garden. People liked it and asked how he'd done it. If more people start harvesting water, it gives a podium to talk with the county/municipality. They saw that harvesting water lead to less stormwater problems downstream. So they legalized cutting curbs with a simple permit and made brochures how to harvest water yourself. New developments are obliged to harvest water. You can watch the older videos to see more.
@@peterslegers6121 This is great!
Hey Brad, we have slightly different curbs in scottsdale... I don't think they would let us cut the curb but maybe the curb core would work. I don't know if you're familiar with the curbs in scottsdale/phx... how do I get permission to do this and what are the key words I should use to influence the city to allow it (if they automatically don't).
Share my books and the linked resources below with your Scottsdale officials
www.harvestingrainwater.com/water-harvesting/harvests-of-different-waters/stormwater-street-runoff-harvesting/
looks kind of illegal to block road without permission from government?
Who cares?
Probably is, but the city probably has to think of the trade offs- they could come out on a holiday weekend, in the rain, to enforce an unauthorized temporary street lane blockage that’s replenishing the groundwater in an area dealing with drought and water table issues … or they could just deal with it if it’s still there and if anybody has complained come the next business day.
he might have permission, but I don't think it rains there for long and the streets do not look busy
Yeah what little traffic could just go through the opposite lane.