Water LA Curb Cuts Sponge Up Panorama City Rain

Posted on 10. Mar, 2013 by in Curb Your Pollution, G3 Blog, G3 Community, G3 Consutling Node, G3 Partners, Los Angeles/South Bay, Low Impact Design, Rain Capture, Rain Gardens, Water LA Rainwater Harvesting Project, Water Quality, Watershed Notes

Panorama City stormwater becomes future drinking water through the curb cut made by participants in the Water LA Parkway Raingarden class, led by G3 Certified Professionals, Tom Rau and Marianne Simon in February 2013.  You know you’re dealing with proud homeowners when they rush outside during a rainstorm to capture photographs of the curb cut [...]

G3 Slows Spreads Sinks At Manhattan Beach Strand

Posted on 28. Feb, 2013 by in G3 Blog, G3 Community, G3 Partners, Los Angeles/South Bay, Manhattan Beach Strand, Rain Capture, Resources, Surfrider Foundation, Watershed Wise Landscape, West Basin MWD

G3′s design for the hillside Ocean Friendly Demonstration Garden at the Manhattan Beach Strand in Manhattan Beach, CA (corner of Manhattan Beach Blvd. and THE OCEAN!) is taking shape as local boulders and recycled concrete (provided by Manhattan Beach Public Works) begin to form the mini-basins that dot the landscape to grab rainwater as a [...]

G3 Leads Water LA In Grading For Rain Hands On Workshop

Posted on 13. Nov, 2012 by in G3 Blog, G3 Community, G3 Education, G3 Partners, HOWs, Los Angeles/South Bay, Rain Capture, Rain Gardens, Water LA Rainwater Harvesting Project

G3 Certified Professional and Qualified Trainer, Marianne Simon, led a group of Panorama City homeowners in a Grading For Rain Hands on Workshop, and beautifully blogs about it on her website.

Water LA Infiltrates Panorama City With G3 Watershed Wise Training

Posted on 27. Oct, 2012 by in G3 Blog, G3 Community, G3 Education, G3 Partners, Homeowner, Los Angeles/South Bay, Rain Capture, Rain Gardens, Resources, Water LA Rainwater Harvesting Project, Watershed Basics, Watershed Notes, Watershed Wise Landscape

G3′s Watershed Basics Class kicked off the resident training portion of  Water LA’s exciting project in Panorama City, CA. G3 became involved in the Water LA project more than two years ago when it was still percolating around Melanie Winter’s brain.  Melanie is the Director of The River Project, the lead organization on this highly [...]

Ventura Cuts Red Tape To Curb Stormwater Pollution

Posted on 12. Oct, 2012 by in City of Ventura, Curb Your Pollution, G3 Associates, G3 Blog, G3 Community, G3 Partners, Neighborhood Curb Cuts, Rain Capture, Rain Gardens, Resources, Standard Plans, Surfrider Foundation, Surfrider's Ocean Friendly Gardens, Ventura County, Water Quality, Watershed Friendly Gardens, Watershed Notes

Jill Sarick from the City of Ventura Public Works and Water Depts. helped Dan Long slice through City red tape to cut his curb and allow stormwater from the street to run through a new mulched and vegetated swale in his parkway. G3 Associates, Tom Rau and Kate Riley, worked with Jill and G3′s Pamela [...]