This why we do what we do! This photo was captured by Todd Reynolds, Executive Director of @groundworknola, after the June 10th flood event. This green infrastructure intervention captures and manages stormwater where it falls. At this project site, stormwater from North Claiborne Avenue is diverted into the pictured bioswale. Before this project was installed, the stormwater would continue going to the drainage system where it needs to be pumped into Lake Pontchartrain. Our pumping system, when the pumps are turned on and fully working and not experiencing broken pipes and clogged storm drains, has a capacity to pump an inch of rainwater for the first hour and half an inch each hour after that. Some folks received 7” of rain in a short time on June 10th! This project at N Claiborne and St Bernard Avenue manages 35,000 gallons of stormwater 👀
Water Wise Gulf South 