We Collected Thousands of Gallons From One Rainstorm!

How we turned a small rain event into a BIG rainwater harvest by planting stormwater within simple street-SIDE and IN-street water-harvesting earthworks or rain gardens growing food and shade-producing native plants. Some of these installations also help calm traffic. This dramatically helps reduce the negative effects of drought, climate change, and speeding traffic; while making our neighborhood more beautiful, comfortable, and safe.

We also cover:
• How to turn a mosquito problem into a mosquito solution.
• DOs and DON'Ts of growing food-producing plants irrigated with harvested street runoff.
• Basic maintenance that will MAXIMIZE your rain harvest, while evolving you and your neighborhood.

Video filmed August, 2025.
Dunbar/Spring neighborhood, Tucson, Arizona after a 0.5-inch (13-mm) rain event.
Here we receive an average of 11 inches (280mm) of rain per year.


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CHAPTERS
0:11 Intro
1:09 Roof runoff watering street trees via stepped basins, each overflowing to the next
1:47 Puddle jumping begins
1:58 More puddle jumping
2:09 More puddle jumping
2:29 Turning mosquito problem into mosquito solution
2:39 Mosquitos need at least three days to go from egg to adult
2:50 Less than hour after rain, all rain and puddles have infiltrated into soil - no puddles for mosquitoes
3:04 How to hold onto harvested rainwater longer beneath surface of soil
3:33 Volunteer squash growing in water-harvesting traffic-calming chicane
3:45 Precautions when growing food in street-runoff-harvesting street-side and in-street rain gardens
4:27 Tendency of woody perennials to sequester toxins in their non-reproductive woody parts, NOT reproductive parts (fruit and seed)
5:00 Neighborhood street context
5:16 Bioremediating (naturally filtering) toxins
5:36 Basic maintenance that maximizes your harvest of street runoff
6:05 Bigger vs. smaller street-runoff-harvesting inlets (curb cuts/curb cores)
6:32 How getting out in the rain and doing simple maintenance simultaneously improves and evolves our rain gardens, ourselves, and our community

For more see...
VIDEO COMPARING DRAMATIC SOIL MOISTURE (OR ITS LACK) IN WATER-HARVESTING LANDSCAPE VS NON-WATER-HARVESTING LANDSCAPE:
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