Please join the City of Santa
Monica in celebrating the opening of its first “green” street, a street that
has numerous features to harvest stormwater runoff and its pollution, and
infiltrate it into the ground, keeping runoff pollution out of the Santa Monica
Bay. The project was funded by the State Water Resources Control Board
and the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission, and the City’s Measure V Clean
Beaches and Ocean Fund.
The opening will consist of a
short presentation by City representatives including the Mayor and Council
members and the state funding agencies, to be
followed by a walk-through and explanation of the watershed features, including
climate-appropriate plants, drip irrigation and solar-powered irrigation
controller, and the finale, a rain simulation where we will observe how runoff
passes along the road and into the various harvesting features.
Date: Tuesday, July
14, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: 100 block
of Bicknell Avenue
Contact/RSVP: Neal
Shapiro, Office of Sustainability & the Environment; 310.458.8223 or neal.shapiro@smgov.net