Amusing Monday: Odd use for a parking space
Monday, October 29th, 2012Some people find it amusing that I have encouraged a little wetland to grow in a parking space next to the one where I usually park my truck.
I’ve got photos of the wetland, shown here. And, thanks to Grist magazine, I have enjoyed learning what other people have done with parking spots, other than parking your car. But first let me tell you about this little one-parking-space wetland.
The one-space wetland in a Bremerton
parking lot.
Photo by Christopher Dunagan
The parking lot, which belongs to the Kitsap Sun, has been around for many decades and does not have its own storm drain. Instead, the rain water drains down to a corner of the lot, flows into an alley and dumps into a drain maintained by the city of Bremerton.
When I first came to the Sun, I was assigned that corner parking
space where the water drains out between two curbs. To keep my feet
from getting wet during heavy rains, I would step out of my car,
onto the curb and then into the alley. I also made sure that the
water flowed freely out of the parking lot and did not form a pool
under my car.
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