According to the U.S. Forest Service, a tree w/ a canopy 100 feet in diameter...has the capacity to hold 57,000 gallons of stormwater in a 12-inch flash flood—without it running downstream as a flood. The question is: What happens when we lose the tree, and what do we replace it with? It does stormwater capture, storage tank, flood control, water quality, and all kinds of things. When we lose the tree, we lose all those services. We lose the water, we lose the habitat, and we potentially lose our lives in a drought. Our founder Andy Lipkis on why rainwater capture is crucial and what TreePeople is doing about it:
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 23:30:00 +0000
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