Event:	Planting at Sunset Circle Share
Location:	Lake Merced - Sunset Blvd. Lake Merced Blvd. at Sunset Blvd., San Francisco, CA
Date:	Apr 4th 2010, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Staff:	Manager: Meredith J ; Coordinator: Kendra B
RSVP:	This event has already occurred

Event Description:

The Sunset Circle project comprises an LID-based retrofit of the parking lot on the northern shore of Lake Merced in southwest San Francisco, situated at the intersection of Sunset and Lake Merced Boulevards. Over the period of January 2006 to March 2007, the SFPUC installed a series of vegetated swales and infiltration basins in the previously 100-percent asphalt surface parking lot. The swales and infiltration basins are designed to delay, infiltrate, and purify stormwater that would otherwise carry sediment and other pollutants directly into Lake Merced, while also showing how stormwater can recharge groundwater reserves. As a demonstration project, Sunset Circle provides a site for SFPUC to monitor the performance of soils, native plant species, and other design features to effectively inform the development of future projects in other locations.

One Brick volunteers will plant, weed and pick-up at Sunset Circle’s vegetated swales and infiltration basins.

Urban Watershed Management Program:

The Urban Watershed Management Program (UWMP) is nested within SFPUCs Wastewater Enterprise and strives to implement a Low Impact Design-based approach to stormwater management. Low Impact Design (LID) is a stormwater management approach that aims to mimic pre-development hydrologic processes by promoting the infiltration, slowing, and treating of stormwater runoff. LID is also a multi-functional design strategy with many other benefits including greener neighborhoods and habitat for native wildlife. As the city of San Francisco has made LID a priority in its approach to stormwater management, UWMP has taken a primary role in making LID a feasible solution to our citys stormwater needs. UWMPs work to-date ranges from conducting public outreach campaigns, developing planning and design guidelines documents, providing incentive programs for homeowners, and installing demonstration projects, all with the goal to increase awareness of LID and to determine the LID practices best suited for the city.