Suburban Ecological Landscape: Passive Rainwater Harvesting System

[@HappyKat3100]

Brilliant Thank you... watching this day after Libya got flooded ... (2023.sept 12th) Appears that old dams build over 100 years ago, and city houses build during the 60'ties and an enormous lack of political responsibility is the cause to these tragedies. And yet solutions could be easily done.... sharing the knowledge is the power for the future and we cannot wait for greedy politicians to act ... Blessings and love.

[@Suburbangeek]

This was fabulous - I learned a lot. Thank you. Subscribed.

[@BitOHoney276]

Great video! I hope you cleaned out the debris from the storm drain area.

[@sundancer442]

Great vid. Surprised that there is no rainwater tank though.

[@alicepettit164]

As I'm planning my yard rain harvesting this is one of the most helpful passive plans I've seen. Did I see irrigation piping near the trench parallel to the street? Also, first I've heard of no-mow fescue. Desiring a nitrogen-fixing pollinating lawn.

[@marianfrances4959]

Awesome!👍😎🇨🇦💧

[@Smith.S.E.]

Now, normally I would be more skeptical of the buried outfall here, but dumping into a basin before that final length of pipe may serve as enough of a gravity catch for the debris, providing it was cleaned out often enough to prevent any from getting in. Just wondering how the buried outfall has held up clogwise and cleaningwise

[@kiverone]

Where I live 1 good summer storm would destroy it all, do youchave a catch up video with the adjustments you had to do??

[@1000orsowords]

Would the city let you dig a large catchment basin around the storm drain so you could have a street garden as well?

[@jeffmatteis]

Hi there! Do you have to worry about the pipes underground getting clogged or is there a filter somewhere in the system that prevents debris from getting in there?

[@Loja_das_Macroalgas]

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[@Loja_das_Macroalgas]

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[@KathyPartridge_Artist]

Yours are some of the best water-harvesting videos on KZbin! Amateur question about the perforated drain pipe connecting the two downspout outlets: Is the perf. pipe level? Or is it sloped slightly toward the downspout by the front door?

[@greenabundancebydesign]

Hi Kathy, It is graded level to facilitate as even a distribution of water across the front. If i wasn't able to have the overflow happen after about an 1/2"-1" of water standing in the pipe, I probably would have added a pitch of about 1/8" for every foot of run. Thanks for watching!

[@torreyinwi]

Why wouldn't you have made a larger rain garden near the front and edge of the property line to prevent more water from running into the storm drain?

[@greenabundancebydesign]

Hi Torrey, Thanks for the comment. The way in which the garden is laid out is to utilize the existing conditions. While another large depression would be possible to have added, the return on investment for excavating more of the yard would have been marginal at best. While I have a great client, money was not unlimited. So far through some heavy rain events, I have not witnessed any extra run off from the property. The mulch and eventual fine fescue no mow lawn also aid in slowing rain water falling outside of the catchment basin and infiltrating it into the soil. Thanks for watching!

[@4beauty4food]

Love it

[@IowaKeith]

How is that a percolating basin if you lined it with non-porous material?

[@Crazywarg]

To me this is real landscaping you are using land management knowledge and human engineering to reshaping the land to be better utilized.

[@greenabundancebydesign]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@renees1021]

Just keep eye on erosion next to your driveway. I think you're displaying something I'd call wisdom.

[@renees1021]

This should lure tree roots away from your house.

[@carltonbirds]

Don’t try and over design something that doesn’t really need it.