Tour de Holes

I spent a very rainy cold Yesterday peering into holes across urban Queenstown with 30 other urban stormwater devotees with Stormwater360 leading the tour. We were kicking off the NZ Stormwater Conference looking at a range of stormwater interception devices - three vortex systems and one cartridge system. (I have no affiliations with Stormwater360 or Conteches...

Through the interstices – thinly

Walking across any city you see many narrow spaces, often filled with trash or weeds, sometimes with a power pole, a transformer, or an access hatch. Some are planned landscape easements, but mainly they are the result of setback rules; boundary disagreements; areas set aside for 'landscaping' by people ignorant of plants, road medians, electric-cable...