Regenerative Water Systems
Be The Beaver, Plant the Rain. Water is life—the fundamental resource that feeds and sustains all ecological systems. Inspired by the beaver's role as nature's ultimate ecosystem engineer, our regenerative water systems are designed to allow water to slow down and sink in, hydrating the landscape and making your site more drought and fire resilient. We can create thriving habitats for ourselves while simultaneously enhancing the hydrological health of the entire watershed.
Hydrating the Landscape
Turning Problems into Solutions
Restoring Local Watersheds
Regenerating Ecosystems
By intentionally slowing water down, sinking it safely, and spreading it to deeply hydrate local aquifers, your site naturally becomes more lush, thriving, and highly resilient to severe summer droughts and fire.
Actively catching, filtering and safely infiltrating concentrated runoff on-site directly helps to mitigate downstream flooding and drastically prevents pollution from entering natural local waterways.
Instead of treating runoff as an issue to be discarded, regenerative systems capture this vital resource to effortlessly grow abundance, feeding ecological landscapes and native wildlife habitats.
By thoughtfully designing water systems, we create a mutually beneficial relationship with the land that provides widespread, positive impacts to the entire surrounding environment.
Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Enhance your property and local waterways by utilizing living, vegetative systems to manage heavy rainfall. We specialize in the design and installation of robust green infrastructure, such as rain gardens and bioswales, which safely capture and filter runoff from roofs, driveways, roads and parking lots. These specialized vegetative systems are engineered to mitigate severe flooding, naturally filter out pollutants before they reach natural creeks and prevent erosion while simultaneously creating beautiful, thriving habitats that hydrate the landscape, and recharge aquifers. These systems can be designed for resilience at the residential or municipal site scale, and installed in both backyards as well as throughout the whole watershed.
Water Harvesting Earthworks
We physically shape your landscape to slow water down, spread it out, and sink it deep into the ground. Through the precise calculation, excavation and grading of specialized earthworks—including ponds, swales, terraces, and infiltration basins—we transition your site from draining water away to actively absorbing it. This passive harvesting technique deeply hydrates the landscape, naturally recharging local aquifers and transforming dry acreage into a lush, drought-resistant ecosystem
Greywater Systems
Greywater Systems maximize your household's water efficiency by giving your water a second life. We design integrated greywater systems that safely recycle gently used water from your home's sinks, showers, and laundry, repurposing it directly into your landscape. We help you navigate local regulations to implement these highly efficient systems, allowing you to drastically reduce your overall water consumption while keeping your garden naturally hydrated.
Rainwater Harvesting Systems
Rainwater Harvesting Systems capture and store your most valuable natural resource for when you need it most. Our active rainwater harvesting services focus on collecting runoff from your roof and hardscapes, safely storing it in specialized tanks or cisterns. By purposefully retaining this water on-site rather than piping it away as waste to a storm drain, we create a reliable, independent water supply that can be utilized for critical summer irrigation or emergency fire management during hot, dry seasons
Watershed Restoration Projects
Applying ecological engineering principles, we develop comprehensive water resilience strategies and solutions for large-scale projects, towns and whole watersheds. Inspired by the beaver's role as a master ecosystem engineer, our watershed restoration services look at the massive, interconnected picture of regional hydrology to design systems that provide widespread benefits for the entire ecosystem. We work with civic planners and land stewards to design, develop and map out green infrastructure strategies designed to effectively mitigate urban heat islands, resolve widespread flooding, and drastically enhance the ecological health of the entire local watershed
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