![]() ![]() has always been, "the path to clean water begins where the rain falls". Rik Segers my mantra and that of RainGrid, Inc. What was powerful about that story? It formed the core knowledge I used as an adult to campaign for the protection of rivers, build green infrastructure to eliminate property runoff, and eventually build intelligent rainfall retention and reuse proptech networks for circular Rain. Whenever I am driving, training or flying, I'm always looking at rivers, especially cognizant of their beauty, the phenomenon of water moving through landscape, and I am reminded of a book I read as a child, Paddle to the Sea, in which a toy canoe with its passenger floats from a tiny rivlet all the way to the ocean. Panama City Beach to apply for $3 million grant to help fund offshore stormwater outfall This is a perfect illustration of what cities need to avoid. How this project is considered a "new, more effective way to manage stormwater" illustrates just how bankrupt the consulting engineering business model has become. Instead this reinforces the drainage industrial complex mindset of bigger, longer pipes, pushing greater pollutant loadings further offshore, where it is presumed to be diluted. In the article about this project, there is zero reference about the missed opportunity to save money, create valuable climate resilience and reduce runoff by implementing circular rainfall proptech. ![]() is spending greater than $41 million to combine three stormwater pipes currently discharging into near shore waters, and then build a 1,500 ft extension pipe further offshore. Here is a primary example of civic infrastructure policy and budgeting that illustrates just how wrong the philosophy and practice of existing rainfall runoff infrastructure is for cities. ![]()
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