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This is an overview PDF presentation of the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science’s Grassroots Mapping activities around the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY. It includes 2011 Balloon and Kite Aerials for sites of interest to Proteus Gowanus, Gowanus Dredgers and the Gowanus Canal Conservancy. Prepared with community input by Jeffrey Warren and Eymund Diegel.
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Grassroots Mapping Creating cheap open source aerial imagery and data for Community efforts to cleanup a polluted neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, USA
Bringing memories and fun back to civic data
Public Laboratory for Open Technology & Science
Kite Photographed “Grassroots” Crop Marks of Roman Buildings, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy, Flickr, Paolo Opaxir, May 2008
Manhattan
Gowanus Watershed
The Canal
Historic Landfilled Tidal Marsh
A Community Campaign in need of Grassroots Data to help with decisions and new ideas
Manhattan
Gowanus Canal Superfund Pollution Cleanup Site
Aer
ial:
NY
CD
EP 1
990,
Sew
age:
Tom
Gie
bel 2
010
“Sludgie” Superfund mascot: Anna Martin 2009
We live in an age of amazing technological access but…
Sometimes we want to know more ..
So who do you call ..?
Peru
USA
Aerial Photos courtesy of Google Maps and Bing Aerials circa 2009 (?)
Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
Exploring ways to make technology and science more accessible for local Community ideas
Creating a VISUAL record of Community activities
HELPING ANSWER THE QUESTION: HOW DO WE DO IT ?
CONSTANTLY SEEKING IMPROVEMENTS THROUGH A COLLABORATIVE PROCESS
Recycled Plastic Bottle Camera Stabilizer Rig
Jen Hudon, 2010
Grassrootsmapping.Org discussion forums
Eymund Diegel (Proteus / Gowanus Canal Conservancy / Dredgers) with Canoers from Gowanus Dredgers, about to use balloons to take aerial photos of the Canal waters and edges. Photo credit: 2011 Mike Weiss, Brooklyn Eagle
The Gowanus Canal Conservancy
Map: Susannah Drake, dlandstudio, 2010
FIRST STREET BASIN RESTORATION
BROUWERS BROOK / DEGRAW ST BIO SWALE
BERGEN CREEK / BATTLE BRIDGE
PUBLIC PLACE PARK
SECOND AVE BIOSWALE
FOURTH STREET BASIN RESTORATION
SECOND STREET SPONGE PARK
WHOLE FOODS PARK
BIOSWALE
BROUWERS
OIL POLLUTION
SECOND AVE STREET END SITE AERIAL SHOWING ILLEGAL MOTOR OIL SPILLS
27 March 2011 Grassroots Mapping Kite Aerial
Water Sensitive Urban Design How can cheap High resolution aerials help ?
1766 Historical Watershed Modeling by Lucas Kronawitter, 2011 ArcHydro Watershed Flow Map by Eymund Diegel, 2010 Grass by Albrecht Durer, 1503
Sites for which we we want aerial data :
versus ECOLOGICAL WATER CYCLE
URBAN WATER CYCLE
IT RAINS
WATER GOES INTO PIPE
CONDENSATION
EVAPORATION
INFILTRATION
IT RAINS
SOME WATER GOES INTO PIPE
WE ARE LOOKING FOR GOOD INFILTRATION SITES
Being able to see the vegetation is important:
Whole Food Site
31 July 2011 Balloon Aerial
Trees like growing near buried old streams and survive best near “edges”
Capturing the 4 Seasons of the Canal’s first Green Infrastructure
22 January 2011
27 March 2011
21 July 2011
Winter
Spring
Summer
Winter
Spring
www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org
CREATING A HISTORY
www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org
ENCOURAGING DATA SHARING & BETTER IDEAS BETWEEN CITY, STATE, THE COMMUNITY & LOCAL INDUSTRY
The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club
Making the Canal fun while providing information about its water quality to the Community through free boats and education events
Come on down !
www.gowanuscanal.org
REACHING OUT
WHEN IT SUCKS, ADVERTISE IT
Youth Programs
Reconnecting with Urban Wildlife Supporting Grassroots Mapping
Pollution Monitoring
Helping with Replanting Programs
Media Outreach
Fun !
Proteus Gowanus
Historical Maps from the Hall of the Gowanus
Community Happenings
Education & Outreach
Proteus Gowanus acts as an interpreter of culture and place, deepening the community’s sense of context and connection
1639 1782 1836 1837 1844
Bringing Memory Back to Space
Bess Adler, Brooklyn Paper, June 2011 www.proteusgowanus.org
Interdisciplinary Gallery & Reading Room
Scientific Samples & Data as Art
Kat
ia K
elly
, Par
don
Me
For A
skin
g, 2
011
Superfund Manager Tsiamis
1766
1924
The Star of the Gowanus
Historic Brouwer’s Mill Bridge Site: We want to keep a visual record as dredging and cleanup proceeds M
cClo
skey
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Hall of the Gowanus area (Union Street Bridge)
July 2011 Grassroots Mapping Balloon Photo
Dan
iel B
arry
, New
Yor
k Ti
mes
, 200
5
LANDFILLED DURING 1960’S BY TRUCKS COMING AT NIGHT
FEDERAL CLEANUP INVESTIGATION FOUND TOXIC LEVELS OF MERCURY
WILL NEED EXCAVATION
WHAT CAN WE FIND OUT ?
Above: 1951 Aerial with Boats Below: 2011 View of Filled Basin
Aer
o Se
rvic
e Aer
ials
, 195
1
FIRST STREET BASIN SITE Map: Bernard Ratzer,1766 Painting: Alonzo Chappel, Battle of Long Island, 1858
Birds and Fish as guides to where the clean water is for restoration opportunities Heron photo: 2007 Bob Gusskind
Brouwers Brook Restoration (Degraw Street Bioswale) Mapping the historic streams of the Gowanus Canal
Are there clues in the water’s color ?
Whole Foods Site Infrared Photo Test Exploring
whether nutrient levels in water can be mapped
Why was this outflow concealed ?
INCONCLUSIVE RESULTS
But ..
Whole Food Site: Just an Experiment .. But raising questions..
Whole Food Parking Lot overlaid on 1766 Map showing potential streams
Wetlands that grew in holes where they were digging out toxic soil
How does the proposed parking
stormwater management plan
respond to local condition ?..
proposed parking
management plan management plan respond to local respond to local
Is there an opportunity for better Green Stormwater Management Infrastructure ?
? ?
Map: Whole Foods, BL Co, via Pardon Me For Asking, Katia Kelly, 2011
Her
on p
hoto
: 200
7 B
ob G
ussk
ind
Dredgers Wetland
Street runoff + local plants
2007
Bob
Gus
skin
d
Tidal site + intervention
NEED BETTER IMAGE QUALITY
3rd A
ve &
3rd
Stre
et p
hoto
of W
hole
Foo
ds si
te c
onta
min
ated
soil
exca
vatio
n pi
ts sh
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ief r
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eara
nce
of h
isto
ric D
ento
n M
ills P
ond:
200
7 B
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ussk
ind
Working with “we know where you are” technology
WHERE TO FROM HERE ?
Ligi
a C
ravo
, 201
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Dredgers Dredgers Dredgers Dredgers
Conservancy Conservancy Conservancy
Dredgers
BLUE = PEOPLE USING PERSONAL MEDIA DEVICES AT FORMERLY ABANDONED CANAL SITES
Eric
Fis
her,
2011
WHAT WILL BE THE NON TRADITIONAL DATA SOURCES OF THE FUTURE ?
IDEA: GEOTAGGED POLLUTION MONITORING & PLANT IMAGES THAT AUTOMATICALLY OVERLAY ON GRASSROOTS AERIALS
Gina Wirth, 2011