Will this Stormwater Poem Get Your Creative Juices Flowing? A Stormwater Poetry Challenge? Write and Win!

We’ve closed an important chapter and started a new year

Yet there’s still much to do so we’re still in high gear!

But before we move on we thought we’d look back

2010 in review, stormwater unpacked.

We start with Prop O which saw lots of action

As a few River Projects finally got traction.

BMP chatter, Wetland conservation

And even a couple Green Street Presentations.

Speaking of Green Streets, there’s Riverdale too

Whose green reconstructions made their debut.

And we brought out an army to Playa Del Rey

An army of kids for Kids Ocean Day.

The plastic bag ban in LA County happened

As biblical rain left all of us dampened.

But rain is a resource as much as annoyance

Or it will soon be with the LID Ordinance.

23 (and counting) underground low flow diversions

And a NoHo retrofit alley conversion.

Yes, one year goes down and it’s on to another

With your help we’ll make 2011 great for our water.

Are your creative juices flowing? Want to give your own water poem a go? Put together a couplet, haiku, sonnet, epic, any sort of poem about LA water or stormwater in the comment box below. All entrants will receive a free clean water t-shirt and then we’ll pick a couple of our favorites to publish in the next issue of the LA Stormwater e-newsletter. Entries are due by end of February– we can’t wait to see what you’ve got in store!