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Block

Water management in small quantities—house by house, lot by lot, and block by block—has the power to effect significant change in the city’s drainage regime in aggregation. Projects at the scale of the block (or its smaller components) can be carried out by individual citizens or small groups. They provide a means to remake the city’s drainage system incrementally: every house and garden that retains its own runoff sends less water into the storm sewer system.

These projects were designed for specific sites, but their proposals are translatable to other locations.