Resources

Do-It-Yourself Curb-Cut Guide

This is a supplement to “How To Cut Curbs and Harvest Street Runoff” in chapter 8 of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition…

Companies Cutting & Core-Drilling Street Curbs

See chapter 8 of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition, for information on how to optimally place, design, and build curb cuts and curb cores with their mulched and vegetated basins.

Curb-Cut, Curb-Core, & Basin Creation Costs

Costs estimates are for Tucson, Arizona as of August 2021 (with some updates, as noted below)…

Curb-Core / Curb-Cut Maintenance Agreement

We’ve found it is essential people have a clear understanding of what is expected of them, and their responsibilities when they install a street runoff-harvesting earthwork in the public right-of-way adjoining their property. So we use the maintenance agreement linked below, and submit it with the permit we file with the City.

Tucson, Arizona, Green Streets Policy

The Tucson Green Streets Policy requires new and reconstructed roadways be designed to harvest the first 1/2 inch (13 mm) of rainfall in order to grow streetside and median vegetation…

Tucson, Arizona, Study Looking at Cost-Benefit Ratio of Green Infrastructure

Regional multi-use plant lists for water-harvesting landscapes

These multi-use rain-garden plants lists are invitations to collaborate with and enhance living systems in our shared built environments…

Garden-planting calendar for Tucson and the Sonoran Desert

This is a month-by-month planting guide for food plants in the Tucson area, southern Arizona, and northern Sonora Mexico…

Rainwater Harvesting in Puglia, Italy

Evolutions Within the Dunbar/Spring Public Commons

Rains of Hurricane Odile Captured in West Texas Water-Harvesting Workshops and Beyond

Evolutions on Mr. Phiri’s Water-Harvesting Plantation, 1995–2016

by Brad Lancaster © 2016 www.HarvestingRainwater.com

An Evolving Checklist of Green-Infrastructure Capacities to Develop and Potential Strategies to Implement in Our Communities

Australian Water Efficiency Recommendations to U.S. Cities

Street Orchards for Community Security

© Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.comDrops in a Bucket Blog

Parking Lot to Parking Orchard

People get comfortable with, and inspired by, new ideas (such as water harvesting) when they experience working examples first hand. Your home site can present such an opportunity. Though a truly public site can maximize potential exposure, while sustaining privacy for yourself. Help turn a problem into a solution, and the idea can really take off.

Farming in the City with Runoff From a Street

Human-Empowered, Enlightened, and Energized Transport

by Brad Lancaster © 2011 www.HarvestingRainwater.com