Blog Posts tagged: water
Improving our urban watershed: Tatlow and Volunteer Park stream restoration
By Michelle Pollard, VPSN vice-chair and volunteer coordinator On March 8, 2017, I braved the rain to attend a City of Vancouver open house at Volunteer Park that sought public input on plans to restore historic Tatlow Creek. I’m particularly... Continue reading »
Rainy Spaces 2: Benthemplein – Rotterdam’s Water Square
It has certainly been a rainy winter in Vancouver. Unfortunately, it seems as though it’s only getting rainier: the overall annual number of high intensity rainfall days have increased here since the mid 1970s, likely an effect of urbanization and... Continue reading »
Going for the gold?
For those with an interest in municipal infrastructure and how it gets used, it appears that we have, collectively, been caught with our pants down. One of our sources at Metro Vancouver ‘leaked’ us this revealing image. It’s a graph... Continue reading »