Cambria Elementary
Client:
Cambria Elementary School, California Coast
Project:
Administrators at Cambria Elementary School needed an environmentally sound
strategy for providing students on the 12 acre campus with green recreational
facilities.
Challenge:
The dry, environmentally sensitive coastal community was unable to provide
neither the volume of water nor the water pressure necessary to irrigate
athletic fields using a traditional sprinkler system. The school needed
a way to take advantage of the short rainy season to irrigate fields,
without damaging the surrounding environment.
RESI Solution:
The EPIC System was installed under 130,000 sq. ft. of turf in six strategic areas across
the 12 acre campus, creating an 85,000 sq. ft. community soccer field, as well
as school athletic fields. The entire campus, including the fields, was designed
to collect all available stormwater and hardscape runoff. Under the EPIC soccer
field, large pipes store up to 2,000,000 gallons of water.
Results:
The EPIC system’s storage capacity provides the school with a source of free
irrigation water during the dry summer months, during which the system is also
replenished with effluent from the municipal sewage treatment facility, completely
eliminating the need for a fresh water irrigation source. Because the design
also mitigates runoff issues, this environmentally sensitive coastal area is able
to enhance the community in a way that would have been impossible without this
green solution.
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