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greywater ↓

GREYWATER storage tank

greywater storage tank ↓

Unit planter boxes

Unit planter boxes ↓

S.O.A.P. PANELS

S.O.A.P. Panels ↓

hot water storage

Hot water storage↓

radiant heating floor coils

RADIANT HEATING FLOOR COILS ↓

STORAGE TANK

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VEGETATION WALL

CIENEGA TREATMENT CENTERCienega Treatment center responds to the pre-existing urban conditions of los angeles in a variety of ways. water quality, and the health and wellbeing of its citizens, are the primary focuses of CTC. these conditions are remedied with the integration of a constructed wetland system and a detoxification system

About 75% of the stormwater ends up flowing down the Los Angeles canals in a typical rainstorm and is lost to Santa Monica Bay and Long Beach Harbor.

In Los Angeles, the homeless population has jumped 12% in the last 2 years.

44,000 homeless people were tallied in January 2015, up from more than 39,000 in 2013.

stage 2: cistern storage

stage 3: baffle system

stage 4: limestone

stage 5: Aquaponics

stage 6: Aquaponics

stage 7: oyster

stage 8: Retention

stage 1: canal

Southern California has long been an area where drug abuse and addiction has flourished, due to its location near the us-mexico border.

heroin• 2002 - 2013: heroin use increased 63%• 2002 - 2013: overdose deaths increased 300%• 2013: 517,000 people reported that they had used heroin in the last year, a 150% increase from 2007.

perscription• 2014: 23,500 overdose deaths

meth• 2009-2014: meth seizures increased 300%