Wed May 26,
7pm
Presentation:
Basins of Relations: Think Like a Watershed
by Brock
Dolman,
Director of the
WATER Institute (www.oaecwater.org)
Chaparral
Auditorium
414 E. Ojai Avenue, Ojai
Opening short
film:
"The Cycle of
Insanity: The Real Story of Water"
$5 suggested donation
includes a copy of
Basins of Relations:
A Citizen's Guide
to
Protecting and Restoring
Our Watersheds
Presented by Ojai
Valley Green Coalition
Contact
Deborah
Pendrey
coordinator@ojaivalleygreencoalition.com
805-669-8445
www.OjaiValleyGreenCoalition.org
Thinking Like a
Watershed
http://www.ojaivalleygreencoalition.org/OVGC%20May%202010%20E-News.pdf
After April's
great presentation about the Ojai Creek project, we'll
be
continuing the
watershed theme on Wednesday, May 26-gathering
again at the
Chaparral Auditorium at 414 E. Ojai Avenue at 7:00
p.m. Our guest speaker will be Brock Dolman of the Water
Institute at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center in
Occidental,
California. His
theme will be "Thinking Like a Watershed,"
based
on our speaker's
popular booklet Basins of Relations: A Citizen's Guide to
Protecting and Restoring Our Watersheds. Brock will
interpret a series of slide images about water, watersheds, patterns
of human development, and restoration ideas known to support
regenerative ecological integrity.
He'll discuss rainwater harvesting as a strategy of water
conservation, from rooftops to the broader landscape, and will expand
on the ideas
of conservation hydrology and low-impact development, emphasizing the
need for humandevelopment designs to move from drainage to
retainage.
Instead of land-use practices designed to capture excess stormwater
and convey this often-degraded resource offsite, Brock will discuss
ideas for how landowners can spread, slow, and sink stormwater on
their site. He'll explain how moving away from runoff to run-on land
uses can result in multiple watershed benefits such as reduced
flooding, improved water quality, enhanced late-season baseflows,
increased groundwater recharge for local supply, benefits to stream
structure and function, enhanced instream and upland wildlife habitat,
short-term and long-term economic benefits, and improved localized
aesthetics.
The evening will
open with the Surfrider Foundation's new short film The Cycle
of Insanity: The Real Story of Water. This film, narrated by
actress Zuleikha Robinson from the television series Lost,
dives into the controversial problems and solutions related to water
management.
The Cycle of
Insanity can serve as a practical outline for those
citizens
who are curious about water issues. It connects the impacts of our
current water-management system to coastal issues as it offers
commonsense solutions that illustrate how we can move toward
sustainability in water and wastewater management.
We'll be asking
for a $5 entry donation to support the work of
the Ojai Valley Green Coalition and the Water Institute, and
everyone who attends will receive a copy of the Brock
Dolman
booklet
Basins of Relations: A Citizen's Guide to Protecting and
Restoring
Our
Watersheds.
For those who would
like a resource for great information on our
local Ventura watershed, we recommend this EPA website
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/huc.cfm?huc_code=18070101