Sunday, October 21, 2012

Popoi'a Street Storm Water Retrofit Project Adopts Butt Planters

The Huakailani Girls made and delivered two Cigarette Planters. The Hui Koo'laupoko's Popoi'a Street Storm Water Retrofit project  requested our planters to collect cigarette butts before they run off into the water.                                
Learn more about the project here: http://www.huihawaii.org/kaelepuluproject.html


Popoi'a Street Storm Water Retrofit Project 

This project is was created to capture pollution associated with storm water runoff and demonstrate how new building techniques and technologies can be used to protect stream and ocean health. 

The scope of the project replaces about 6,000 square feet of dirt with inter-locking pervious pavers to allow storm water infiltration. Additionally, native vegetation and small rain gardens ( and cigarette butt planters) will be installed to help filter additional polluted run-off. The finished area will have three interpretive signs with original art work created by Lanikai Elementary Public Charter School students.


 5th and 6th graders represented the school and delivered planters at the Sign Unveiling Ceremony.
 Looking at the new signs!
 Great spot for a Cigarette Butt Planter!
 The girls selected the sites for the planters. They already found some cigarette butts littering the area.

 See?  No puddling because of the newly installed pervious pavers.

This is what happens when rain falls on impervious surfaces (pooling/puddling).

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

New Cigarette Butt Planters and More!

The girls identified an area that needed new planters at the last August Adopt a Block by Whole Foods Parking Lot. Viola!  A group of girls went for an additional clean up during Service Learning class time to pick up remaining cigarette butts in the area while another group painted new planters to place in the area.

It doesn't stop there!  While all this was happening, 
another group of girls made a new batch of Bokashi!

Huakailani Girls Rock!
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Do you know about Non-Source Point pollution?

Whether you have a stream running through your backyard, business, local school or park, protecting it is a good idea. Many property owners upstream may not realize that what they do on their land impacts other residents and water quality downstream. Every day pollutants such as trash, yard waste (e.g., grass clippings, leaves, prunings, or fruits), paint, construction debris (e.g., stockpiles of soil, sand, or gravel), used motor oil, fertilizers and pesticides, and dog waste reach our urban streams. Trash on stream banks are unsightly and unsanitary for humans and wildlife. Even organic materials such as yard waste are unacceptable to dump along streams banks. When these materials get into the stream cycle, they decompose and eliminate critical, life-giving oxygen from the water. As a result, streams become unsightly and emit foul odors.