Greening Gordon Square update:
So Cleveland got some snow. Not an exceptionally large amount if taken over the proper duration of time, but some white stuff was dumped on us rather quickly. As I was sitting on the train on the way home it dawned on me that the Greening Gordon Square installation was probably in the path of plow trucks, having been installed on a municipal lot and all.
It was.
Not too badly though. There was some minor "reshaping" on the eastern edge of the "garden" but the detention rings were unscathed. Most likely the snowplow operator didn't even feel he hit something.
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| Slightly smooshed east end |
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| West side and rings are fine, yay |
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| Sans snow |
So this past Saturday I loaded up the XBox with various tools and headed on over to assess the damage. Once all the snow had cleared I could really see that the damage was minimal (above photo). 30 minutes later everything was fixed and the site had been cleaned, ready for the next snow fall and auto impact.
This being the second time that a vehicle had damaged an installation on a parking lot I will admit to being surprised that the GardenSoxx has held up so well. There are a few splits, probably from installation as we were dragging them over the concrete and asphalt, but after meeting a honda and snowplow (that I know of) the Soxx are doing great.
The next batch of soils testing will probably be done in April, just to maximize runoff from snow and rain to see just what is going into our watershed from parking lots. In the meanwhile I am looking for good ways to measure water going through the Soxx and moisture retention (I suppose I could weigh it dry and at saturation and extrapolate based on volume). Also, if anyone has a great resource for tracking historic rainfall data that would be swell!
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| Ta-da! Fixed (and much cleaner) |
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