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Homeless Garden Project, Caroline Ruwe, Tara Pozzi, John Miller
Homeless Garden Project, Caroline Ruwe, Tara Pozzi, John Miller
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses
The Homeless Garden Project, a non-profit organization in Santa Cruz, California, was given 15-acres to expand in 1998 by the City of Santa Cruz. The main reason they have not moved to this area is that there is no readily available water to irrigate with. In this paper, we used GPS data and WaterCAD modeling to design a gravity water distribution system in order to irrigate this new land for the Homeless Garden Project. This system used two mountain springs as a water supply in which spring diversion box retrofits were designed. Multiple 2-inch high-density polyurethane (HDPE) pipelines were used …