underutiliz
South Eugene High School site plan
GOOD
DRAINAGE, GOOD VIBES
revitalizing, reprogramming, and revealing stormwater at South Eugene High School
"Good Drainage, Good Vibes" demonstrates a regionally relevant green infrastructure site redesign that combines the benefits of stormwater treatment,
climate mitigation, active transportation planning, and ecological education, catering to current user experience with an eye towards informing resilient
urban watershed management.
Despite South Eugene High School's proximity to Amazon Creek, a major local waterway, this connection is currently invisible to students and community
users of the nearby bike path. The front entry to the school is flanked by large, flat expanses of lawn which become waterlogged in the wet Oregon winters
and go largely underutilized by students. The water flowing off these lawns, parking lots, and rooftops, is piped unfiltered into the degraded and
channelized creek, to eventually flow into the Long Tom and finally Willamette Rivers.
"Good Drainage, Good Vibes" envisions a school campus that manages stormwater on-site and makes the flow of stormwater demonstrable and legible to
the community, revealing the invisible, reprogramming the underutilized, and revitalizing the degraded.
Who is
Learning?
Whs can be How is it
Learned? Measured?
Water Temperature
Where on
Campus?
Parking lot planters and
rain gardens
Near cascade fountain or
green facade
Rain gardens
New permeable
parking lot
Near cascade fountain
Inlets of parking lot
planters
Rain gardens and
planters
Education boardwalk or
rain gardens
Education boardwalk or
rain gardens
Rain gardens and
planters
Designed by SEHS
or UO Students
revealing the invisible
sensors and education
On Site Sensor
sensors
signage
demos
citizen
Rate of Flow
On Site Sensor
On Site Sensor
SEHS Students
Drainage Rate
On Site Demo
revitalizing the degraded
stormwater interventions
University of
Oregon Students
and Faculty
Total Rainfall
Sediment Buildup
On Site Demo
On Site Demo
City Designers and
Maintenance Staff
Plant and Animal
Diversity
Plant Growth and
Condition
Yearly Survey
public
vehicles
students
Photo Monitoring +
Eugene
Community
improved circulation
Ecology Information
Sign or QR Code
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5.	extensive green 'ool covered o:ke parking
6.	green facade
7.	oike path and education boardwalk
8.	permeable parking
9.	seatwalis
10.	permed lawn
11.	Amazon Creek
12.	SEHS building
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parking ot and median stormwater planters
3.	rooftop' cascade and swaie
4.	fees
Watershed
Information
Conducted by SEHS
or UO Students
vegetated swale	rain garden	parking lot interventions
On-site monitoring and interpretive signage
provide educational opportunities to students
and the public
New paths and seating provide access and
gathering spaces in the previously underutilized
front lawns
New trees pay for themselves in under 25 years
through stormwater management, carbon
sequestration, and energy savings
On-site management of impervious surface
runoff reduces monthly stormwater fees by over
$1,000
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The addition of over 20,000 new ground cover
plants and shrubs creates food and habitat for
pollinators, birds, and amphibians
Over 90% of new plant species included on site
are native to the Willamette Valley
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