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“Why Does Disaster Aid Often Favor White People?

Ok we know transformation Tuesday is a thing! But we are only transforming spaces to manage stormwater where it falls....no need to transform yourself, you are perfect as you are 😎But back to this green infrastructure transformation! Vanessa had a lot of standing water issues at her home in the Lower 9th Ward as you can see from the first two photos. @buildwithgravel and @danabrownassociates worked together to create a design (3rd photo) to help eliminate that issue. Two pipes carry the water from the lower lying area near her shed and connect together at an 18” catch basin where the water flows into a French drain. The French drain is also directly tied into two downspouts from Vanessa’s house. It all leads to a rain garden at the front of the house with some native plants and a native tree provided by @deltaflora_nativeplants 🌳💚 collectively the project will manage 860 gallons of stormwater! Thank you to the Travis at @buildwithgravel and the @lagreencorps members, Tory, Josh and Mike, for constructing the project! And thank you to the @urbanconservancy and @thekresgefoundation for funding this project! And a thank you to @lower9nola for connecting us to @vanessagueringer 👏👏👏👏

Is transformation Thursday a thing? We hope so because we are excited to showcase this transformation in the Lower 9th Ward that is now designed to capture 1,100 gallons of stormwater before it ponds (as seen in the first picture) or reaches the drainage system. This project included removing over 450 sq ft of concrete to make room for permeable paver systems, bio retention facilities (also known as rain gardens) and a French drain. @neworleanssongbird and team submitted this proposal as a part of the Water Wise Green Infrastructure Challenge and were selected as one of the winners for District E🌳💚This project was designed by @danabrownassociates and constructed by @builtbyubuntu ✅💪 This project was funded by @gnofoundation as a part of the 2021 Water Wise Green Infrastructure Challenge and additional funds were provided by @urbanconservancy Front Yard Initiative.

A little history about Armstrong Park. Houses and families were destroyed and relocated to make way for a park that was not created for the people of Tremé but for tourism. Today it is still fenced off signaling a message that the residents around the park aren’t wanted in this space- to flow in and out of the park. On top of that the back end of the park that bumps up into the Tremé neighborhood is heavily concreted and sits higher than the Tremé neighborhood causing flooding concerns from stormwater runoff. Now another power play is happening to take the park for municipal uses. The community has had long standing visions for what the park could be. But those visions weren’t taken into consideration. Now the community is taking one last stand to request that City Hall not be relocated to Armstrong Park. This space instead requires healing and reconciliation and community leadership for the negative impacts that it has brought to the community. And it deserves the protection of scared cultural spaces such as the protection of Congo Square and the Morris F.X. Jeff, Sr Municipal Auditorium. Join our Water Wise Tremé partner organization, Greater Tremé Consortium, and other organizations this Saturday for an afternoon of music and advocacy.

Days 2 and 3 of French drains, catch basins, downspout tie ins and rain gardens and lots of SUN 🌞 we were so thankful for any cloud that shaded us and we are super pumped for plants to be added tomorrow by @deltaflora_nativeplants 🌸🌸🌸💚💚💚👏👏👏 thank you sooooo much to the leadership of Travis at @buildwithgravel and for the @lagreencorps Team- Josh, Tory, Mike and Maria! Their hard work made this project possible on Charbonnet Street. Can’t wait for the rain to see how it performs.

Beep beep 🚌 We are kicking two green infrastructure projects off in the Lower 9th Ward this week 💪 First, we are working with @buildwithgravel and @lagreencorps to install a series of catch basins and pipes that will connect to a long french drain and eventually a rain garden. This resident is facing persistent flooding and we were connected to them through @lower9nola 🌸 The second site is being constructed by @builtbyubuntu and includes A LOT of concrete removal to make room for permeable (ie space for rainwater to flow through) paver systems, French drain and a rain garden. This work is made possible with funding from @urbanconservancy @thekresgefoundation @gnofoundation 👏👏👏

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