Urban Biofilter Project Plants Bamboo Forests to Clean up Brownfields

Urban Biofilter Project Plants Bamboo Forests to Clean up Brownfields

by Trey Farmer, 03/15/10

대나무 숲은 매우 아름다울 분만 아니라 공기와 땅과 물을 정화하며 산업지구와 번잡한 교통으로부터 지역을 보호한다. 이 프로젝트는 대나무 숲을 만들어 폐수를 정화하도록 하고 있다. 또한 대나무를 수확하여 재료로 사용하며, 이를 지역의 수익 사업이 되도록 하고 있다. 이와 같은 방식으로의 재생이 미국 오클랜드 서부 항 지역에 활용되어 지역 주민과 산업 시설이 공존할 수 있도록 하고 있다. 또한 이 개념을 Tijuana 강의 재생의 방법으로 적용되고 있다.
http://blog.daum.net/abrief

Bamboo forests are beautiful things — especially when they are cleaning urban air, soil, and water AND shielding communities from industry and heavily trafficked areas. Urban Biofilter creates bamboo forests on brownfields that are fed with wastewater. The harvested Bamboo then creates income in areas that are otherwise neglected through sustainable bamboo harvesting and timber production.

Urban living has it’s perks but it can also have it’s downsides. Many residential areas get heavy pollution (air, water, soil, noise, radiation, visual, you name it) due to the supporting infrastructure of human density. The Urban Biofilter project addresses these issues and leverages waste to improve quality of life in inner-cities.

Oakland

West Oakland is surrounded on three sides by 8 lane interstate highways and the Port of Oakland across. The rates of asthma, cancer and unemployment are all astonishing in homes close to the Port (which ranks among the 20 busiest ports in the world). The Urban Biofilter is trying to address these issues that have led to recent struggles between residents, port officials and the trucking industry.

The project has brought the community and industry together in a wonderful way by helping the people who make their living at the port, the mechanics, truck drivers, taqueria chefs and radio men, all a chance to make an urban oasis in the most unlikely of places.

Tijuana Regeneration

Last summer Urban Biofilter joined the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve and Earth Island Institute’s Restoration Initiative on a bi-national project to restore the Tijuana River Estuary Watershed. The proposed project would create an elegant solution to current wastewater issues by channeling and redirecting it to a system of bamboo biofilters at NOAA’s outreach office. The plantings would be done as workshops. This would minimize cost, give skills to the public, and act as a catalyst for a wastewater paradigm shift in an area that needs it.

http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/03/15/urban-biofilter-project-plants-bamboo-forests-to-clean-up-brownfields/