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Yonge Street & College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

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Yonge Street & College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

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Yonge Street & College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

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Avenida Río Churubusco, Granjas México, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

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Avenida Río Churubusco, Granjas México, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

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Avenida Río Churubusco, Granjas México, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

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Still here!
Sadly every time it rains, may areas of the city get flooded. Burried rivers reclaim their territory and become visible. As you can see in the image this main road is under water, wistfully this is common in every rainy season. An yes, the street is call Río (river) Churubusco, as time ago a river used to run unearthed by that area

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Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

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Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

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Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

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Hi, its me again, Juan Bernardo I haven't finished yet. The main source of potable water of Mexico City comes from the Cutzamala river, a tibutary that is born in a neighbouring state. When they built the pipes to bring the water of this river to the city a beautiful thing was made. Do you remember I mentioned Diego Rivera before? Well, he designed an aquatic mural of the entrance of the waters of the river to the city which is the one im sharing as an image. Sadly, the water started to unpaint it and they reduced the flow of water through this pipe.

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Hi, I am Juan Bernardo. I was born in Mexico City where I lived until a year and a half ago when  I moved to Toronto. Did you know Mexico City was built over a lake? Yes, the aztecs when they built the city Mexico-Tenochtitlan they decided to build it over a lake. Actually, Mexico means in "nahuatl" which is the language of the aztecs, "Belly button of the moon, as the lake shape used to resemble the rabbit figure we see in the moon. This shape was able to be seen from the surrounding mountains and volcanos. That means that the lake had many tributaries coming from the diverse mountains which waters ended in it. The aztecs built their pyramids and shelters over "chinampas" which was a method used by them to reclaim land over the lake. They also created fertile land over these chinampas where all their food was cultivated and had aqueducts and drainage in the city as you can see in the imaged I am sharing painted by our greates muralist Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo's husband. Sadly, when the Spanish arrived and took control over the city, Mexico- Tenochtitlan became its transformation to what it is now, Mexico City, one of the largest cities in the world without a sparkle of the lake that used to exist before as it is now located underneath all the concrete.

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59-61 Dockside Dr, Toronto, ON M5A 1B6, Canada

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59-61 Dockside Dr, Toronto, ON M5A 1B6, Canada

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59-61 Dockside Dr, Toronto, ON M5A 1B6, Canada

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Stefan here once again. In September Evelyn and I visited Sherbourne Common, Toronto's first stormwater management park designed by PFS Studio and Teeple Architects (Teeple made the cool pavilion). Stormwater passes through a weir system on the south end of the park. This water is cleaned in various stages, after UV filtration it passes through a biofiltration channel before it is released into Lake Ontario through an urban creek. Neat stuff.

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16 Wendigo Way, Toronto, ON M6S 2T9, Canada

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16 Wendigo Way, Toronto, ON M6S 2T9, Canada

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16 Wendigo Way, Toronto, ON M6S 2T9, Canada

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Hi, I'm Stefan and check out this newly improved stormwater drainage feature below an area of infill of the Clendennan ravine. This ridgeline behind me used to be a bridge, but was infilled to make way for Bloor St. The TRCA recently renovated this drainage feature and cleaned the inlet into Grenadier Pond and the greywater stormwater pond is now much clearer.

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Southwest Jiaotong University

Hongyu Wu currently lives on Southwest Jiaotong University. A natural lake-Tuojiang River runs through the school. To make use of the natural river landscape, the school creates an artificial lake scape on the campus. Water is drawn from the upper reaches of the river into the lake in the north of the campus, and the south side of the campus flows out into the river. This artificial lake offers more leisure space for surrounding residents and students.

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The Bentway, Fort York Boulevard, Toronto, ON, Canada

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The Bentway, Fort York Boulevard, Toronto, ON, Canada

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The Bentway, Fort York Boulevard, Toronto, ON, Canada

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Andrew (Chengfan) is currently living in Zhejiang University. The elephant-like sculpture is built on a fountain. It is actually designed as part of the water recycle system, which the elephant`s nose functions as a pipe cycling the water from roof to fountain.

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Andrew (Chengfan) finished his BLA in Dalhousie University. The photo is the bioswale he built with his team in the agricultural campus. It is designed to infiltrate part of the rainwater coming from the adjacent roof, and convey the rest into a catch basin.

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Andrew (Chengfan) was born in Changsha. The aerial photo is a newly constructed riparian corridor named as guitang river in front of the condo where my family live.

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Joey Ngai Chiu was born in Hong Kong.

When it rains, it pours rings true to the summer seasons in Hong Kong. With impossibly hot and humid weather, high temperatures from June to September are often only broken by heavy rainstorms.

Hong Kong has a colour-coded warning system for rainstorms, from amber to black, part of the city shuts down when black rain warning is in effect.  Hong Kong is undoubtedly paved with asphalt and concrete and there was a time when the city easily floods during a rainstorm.  Older parts of the city is particularly vulnerable, since drainage system was built prior to the increase of population, which now stands at 8 million.

Since the late 90s, Hong Kong’s existing drainage system has been retrofitted and expanded.  Additionally, four stormwater storage tanks were built and 11 more are being constructed.  It is worth noting that stormwater management in Hong Kong is tailor to the district: dykes and channels protects rural villages and towns, while the city and urban areas are assigned with far more intensive engineering work.

These solutions, which now direct rainwater away from vulnerable areas and into the ocean, have significantly reduced flooding – from 126 floods in 1995 to five in 2020.

I have recently read about the construction of Racecourse water storage tanks, which lie beneath the famous landmark, The Happy Valley Racecourse.  These water tanks look like empty parking lots which, at its fullest, hold up to 60,000 sq. m. of water.

In addition to storing water (instead of discharging as it has before 1995), Hong Kong has also adopted design solutions such as porous pavements, wetlands, rain gardens and green rooftops, many of which I can attest to seeing more of during my annual visits to Hong Kong since the late 90s.

Reference:

Griffiths, James.  “Hong Kong’s vast $3.8 billion rain-tunnel network” Cnn.com

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University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

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University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

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University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

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I went to school here from 2012-201

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Maddy Appleby lives here (for now) :)

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77 Erion Road, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

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You can't see on this map, but my childhood home is backed by a Ravine that I spent a lot of time in when I was younger. Part of the Twelve Mile Creek Watershed, the area holds valuable ravine habitat that is threatened and in decline. More information on this area can be found on this study (I will upload an image once I find one! :)

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150 Culford Road, North York, ON, Canada

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Channelized portion of Black Creek!
(As of right now I cannot figure out how to go from "Anonymous" to my name. This is Agatha Molendowski)

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Evelyn has grown up visiting Fort Lauderdale during the summer and winter months. This is the view from the front porch of her home during an afternoon rainstorm. It rains like this almost every day in the summer months, and as seen in this picture, water always pools by the end of the driveway and on the road. In the event of a more extreme rain event, this pooling also occurs on the lawn. This is all due to the coastal geography and the limestone geology of South Florida.

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Evelyn was born and raised in Scarborough. This picture is of water that froze as it traveled down from  the roof's downspout, never making it to the soil under the Chinese juniper.

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In 2020 I live on the Garrison Creek Watershed in Toronto. This summer contractors placed silt control fabric beneath this manhole cover to protect the water in the creek from sediment or noxious materials whilst the road was being resurfaced.

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I was born and grew up near here. I used to play in the River Bollin.