Build a planted bioswale to slow street runoff.

Once a gutter run is clear, the deeper fix for Heliópolis's flooding is giving stormwater somewhere to soak in rather than racing straight to an overloaded drain. A shallow planted bioswale along the curb slows and filters that runoff before it reaches the storm system. This intermediate build follows directly from the cleared gutter section.

Where

Public curbside, Heliópolis, São Paulo 04231 · Open the map

Pay

$340 proposed

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Proof

Photo of the finished, planted bioswale

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-18

Posted by

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. Confirm the section builds on the previously cleared gutter run.
2. Dig a shallow, gently sloped channel by hand along the curb line.
3. Line the channel with gravel at the base for drainage.
4. Plant water-tolerant native species along the swale.
5. Photograph the finished bioswale and record the build date.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the curb line
• After photo of the dug, planted swale
• GPS-tagged date

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Green Stormwater Infrastructure. Green stormwater infrastructure is the city's way of handling rain the way a meadow does: rain gardens, planted swales, and permeable pavement that let a storm soak in instead of surging down a pipe. The EPA's inspection standard keeps these systems honest, because a neglected rain garden quietly stops working while still looking like a garden. Mastery is the inspector's eye: reading inlets, overflow, plants, and soil in a single practiced pass. This packet is one such inspection, one basin checked and one record filed, which is precisely how a thousand basins stay alive.