About Here: Vancouver's Underground Streams | CBC Short Film

There used to be more than 50 streams throughout Vancouver. Now there are only a couple still visible. Where did they go? Why should we care? Uytae Lee unearths Vancouver's underground streams in his About Here column with CBC Vancouver.

[@AboutHere]

Still cringing at the opening line... thanks for watching everybody!

[@eliasboesersson8774]

This is my guy right here. Keep up the good work.

[@EvgenySalmin]

Now that is a quality content. Good job, keep it up!

[@CBCVancouver]

Glad you enjoyed it! There's more coming from Uytae Lee.

[@wakeupscreaming9883]

Quality content -- at taxpayers expense -- it's the CBC. It BETTER be good quality.

[@Gromitdog1]

Really cool documentary. I remember the Vancouver urbanarium covering this in the 80's

[@clementlee2121]

You made me think of our city’s stream that no one else could! Absolutely love your videos.

[@franzvanderkraan7583]

I'm so grateful for this well-produced short documentary. I work in hospitality in Vancouver, and give tours all the time. I've lived here all my life, and love this area. The video was expressed-intelligence, interesting, reasonably thorough...and entertaining. thanks.

[@markplain2555]

There is more sophistication to this topic. For example if the stream has a very shallow flow (ie: flows very slowly) it is conducive to mosquitoes, methane build up and well disease. Putting a stream underground when you have a city of people (and don't want disease) is a good idea (especially in the early 1900's). What is truly a bad idea is combining sewerage systems and stormwater drainage. The focus should and water management priority should be in splitting the sewerage systems from stormwater drainage. That infrastructure development should take precedence over the 'light of day' program. . On the topic of flooding due to climate change - any flooding that occurs could be due to blockages in the drain system (bad maintenance) or not designing a draining for a 50 (or 80) year return period ie: bad engineering. Climate change is resulting in 50 year return periods happening more regularly, but the drain should already allow for that. It is unacceptable that a city like, say, Johannesburg can handle a 50 year storm flood and Vancouver cannot. So the result is to simply widen existing drains or build a second drain alongside an existing drain.

[@negativemarkk]

Very interesting. I enjoy this series. Keep it up!

[@libshastra]

Uytae Lee, you should post this on your original channel - About Here

[@WilliamDenman]

Hey Uytae, your videos are awesome! Keep up the great work.

[@ReasonMakes]

CBC is so fantastic. Great video. Thank you Uytae Lee

[@CBCVancouver]

Thank you very much! We're glad you enjoyed it. Stay tuned for more from Uytae Lee. And check out his video " Should We Tear Down the Seawall" if you're hungry for more. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHnSi32vqdR7ftU&cmp=newsletter-CBC+Vancouver+Inbox+April+14

[@ChrisGeisel5000]

Do you have a link to the proposal to bring back China Creek? I'd love to learn more. Great piece, I really enjoyed seeing so many shots from the hood! Not to mention a cool history I never knew existed. Nice!

[@marcelj5349]

Yes its time to live within nature and respect and love our earth.Go with the natural flow.

[@randyj4741]

Spot on as usual.. you really have raised the bar !! One thing I am curious about is why we do not use our waterways for transportation beyond the Lonsdale quay. Ambleside to ubc comes to mind or other busy routes around second narrows .. surely someone must have touted these ideas in the past

[@mattfromyvr]

This was great - looking forward to more of these!

[@calebjankola8728]

Where’s more of This series for Vancouver?!

[@jgcaba3173]

Amazing content

[@emmamoreside4429]

So glad I found these videos!! Keep it up!

[@kerry7029]

Love these videos! Thank you for making them.

[@hannibalme]

Very interesting, relevant and local content! Awesome job.

[@chibiignis]

Loved the video! Keep up the great work.

[@schwags1969]

Great documentary.

[@wakeupscreaming9883]

i knew exactly where you were from the first shot -- off Still Creek Drive. I used to work at a building a block from there, and would walk across the bridge all the time.

[@SigPuma]

I'm really enjoying your videos!

[@KB-tt9oc]

Cool, but Still Creek is one of the most commonly flooded areas in the Metro Van. On very rainy days we station tow trucks there.

[@nakulah]

This needs more views!!!

[@Vancovermycity]

Great video, interesting watching this

[@rosssmith173]

I grew up in Vancouver. Don't think I ever met anyone from Vancouver.

[@shivb5279]

Fantastic content!!!

[@bayezidhtanu2907]

Great content! Love from Bangladesh

[@JHA854]

This was really good!

[@Andy1076]

I live here and I had no idea! :O

[@phorrestgaze2221]

yay nature!

[@gfair2]

Cool idea, but I wonder if the stream alone is enough, don't they require sloped basins around them to accept rainwater runoff? And if we use concrete for the basins, perhaps the basins end up too big for the creek so we get flash flooding, or too limited causing the creek to under-perform.

[@tamistone2632]

Ironically, I watched this on streaming video....

[@ScoopingCelebrities]

Please lets make our city like Amsterdam and its canals

[@mikeharrison4768]

Hussin Ali - Amsterdam is flat. Vancouver is not. 🤦‍♂️

[@marv151]

This is disturbing

[@danecrude]

Give up the climate cult.

[@PawnStarsGold]

Stop with the climate change crap. What do you want. The same climate all day all year. Come up wake up

[@JT_1]

Got to 2:52 then you mentioned Climate Change, stopped watching! Shame really, as this started off as a very interesting documentary

[@theshawnmurphyjournal2946]

This guy use to do videos about Halifax , I guess that did not work out

[@uyseoklee]

Vancouver is a much bigger market

[@AGVancouver]

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