Frederick Patrick Griffin Doyle

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Good comments. It is annoying to listen to disciples of the “new” green movement who lack the understanding necessary to design facilities that actually work and can be maintained (sustained). Even here in the NW we have LID facilities being required in locations where they just will not work.

Robin, not to be a sceptic: I have recently moved to hawaii though spent the last 5 years in the califonia working for a large engineering firm. It is difficult to get buy in from the engineers as the systems are simply not as functional there as they are in the NW. The reason for this is that the NW has rain year round whereas cali has no rain…[Read more]

….and a nicely planted raingarden, or artful rainwater catchment system usually looks better, provided it works correctly, than the typical curb and gutter system. I have found that the client is usally into this aspect of LID. In residential applications, is it wonderful if they take ownership of the process and work to make regulatory change…[Read more]

I have found that it is best to be part of the design process early on, integrating bmp and lid strategies into the program. Working with the engineers can often open up more opportunities and gain momentum to make green strategies more tangible to designers, since we can explain the simplicity and practicality of these strategies. In most cases,…[Read more]

Great website–thanks for pointing it out. Living in Seattle, I have visited many of the listed projects, urban and rural, but many more are coming on board. In 2010 some Seattle homeowners will receive $$ rebates for installing rain gardens and cisterns to reduce CSO into Puget Sound and Lake Union. read more: http://www.seattle.gov/util/rainwise

GA ASLA Newsletter – October issue

Tomorrow there is a meeting going on about if LA have the right qualifications to submit Grading and Drainage plans for permitting. Click on this link for more info.
http://consensus.fsu.edu/Stormwater-Task-Force/

For anyone that is in the Nashville area, on Thursday, October 15th we are having a Tennessee Alumni reception which is also open to alumni attending the National Trust Conference. The reception is being held at the home of Ben and Libby Page from 6-8pm @ 3801 Richland Avenue Nashville, TN 37205.

Let me try this again. Here is the link to the article on Ralph. Geez!!!

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/business/local/metrobusiness/article/NAME28_20090925-221209/295562/

Ralph Higgins, BLA ’69.

Any 2004 Grads? If so message me.

Charles Birnbaum and CED Alumnus Stephanie Foell MHP ’96 have a book throug the University of Virginia Press scheduled to be published at the end of this month called “Shaping the American Landscape”.

I like to share this document on sustainable site design. SSI_Guidelines_Draft_2008.pdf

CEDAA South Carolina Tailgate
Saturday, September 12th
Founders Memorial Garden Courtyard
3pm until I’m ready to go home…:)!!!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer. I wanted to find out if anyone in the group is heading to Chicago this year for the Annual Meeting. Email me at alofton@uga.edu if your planning to attend. Tx!

Stomwater is cool in the Sunshine State.

Hey guys! Here is a link to some presentations from a conference in Reno at the University of Nevada that talked about different stormwater and bioretention techniques. Some are really basic info but also some good overall information. The links to presentations are actually at the bottom of this page that you can scroll down to once you open the…[Read more]

It looks pretty old but I like the details and formality of it, especially as it moves between the brick wall.

check out this cool solution to getting water off the property at Duisburg-Nord/ Germany:

Thanks for starting this, Theodore! I know this is hot stuff already in engineering, but there isn’t enough information on it as applies to LA.