Michael C.,

You may not recognize it but all the bioswales proposed in this intitiave will save the city a lot of money.

When it rains the resulting stormwater picks up all kinds of nasty pollutants that eventually end up in our streams and rivers. By pollutants I'm talking about oil, pesticides, mercury, and many other harmful substances. The city can't just let these substances drain into the river. It is harmful to our rivers and fish and also against the clean water act. it is also in my opinion a moral and ethical issue.

Either way the city is required to deal with it under the clean water act. So we can either build billion dollar engineering projects such as the big pipe to keep up with it... or we can build cheap bioswales all over the city that will natural treat this water and beutify our neighborhoods too. I vote for bioswales.

I should also not that the big pipe project will handle a lot of stromwater but it does not have the capacity to handle all of it. We would have had to spend another half billion or some such insane number for that kind of capacity and treatment technology.

Grey to Green is a very fiscally sound project... not some socialist conspiracy.