Since my focus has been in landscape architecture and urban planning, it is interesting to me to study an urban watershed in a very well planned community, in terms of planning building of hundreds of years of history that they seem to do it well. Arlington County is one of those urban communities that I found out. Four Mile Run stream is a nine-mile long stream, a direct tributary of the Potomac river, located in a highly urbanized area in Northern Virginia with several tributaries. Its 19.6 square mile watershed covers portions of Arlington and Fairfax Counties and the Cities of Alexandria and Falls Church. One of the initiatives has been to a better job of daylighting streams, so as I learned in my major, most of our watersheds in urban areas are all underground in streets sewers. The four mile run actually does not a good job of keeping things day lighted, that has a couple of components which I have not ever noticed this matter. Right there where the stream comes out from ...
Since my focus has been in landscape architecture and urban planning, it is interesting to me to study an urban watershed in a very well planned community, in terms of planning building of hundreds of years of history that they seem to do it well. Arlington County is one of those urban communities that I found out. Four Mile Run stream is a nine-mile long stream, a direct tributary of the Potomac river, located in a highly urbanized area in Northern Virginia with several tributaries. Its 19.6 square mile watershed covers portions of Arlington and Fairfax Counties and the Cities of Alexandria and Falls Church. One of the initiatives has been to a better job of daylighting streams, so as I learned in my major, most of our watersheds in urban areas are all underground in streets sewers. The four mile run actually does not a good job of keeping things day lighted, that has a couple of components which I have not ever noticed this matter. Right there where the stream comes out from ...