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Bored? Looking for love? Want to help keep our street sewers working and the streets clear? Become a drain warden! Adopt a drain! Adopt four of them! Last year I found about about this program that I guess Seattle partners with, where residents can sign up to take care of storm drains near them. It looks to be nationwide, and that includes Seattle! Here’s the Washington site: https://wa.adopt-a-drain.org/ It’s pretty easy. Just go out in your dirty chore clothes, bring along a pair of gloves, a spade and a shovel. Pull open the storm drain, pull out the soil, leaves and other debris, and leave it clean. You’ve just made civilization work just a tiny bit better! I picked out four drains on my street, and kept them maintained all winter long. I just went out and checked in on them, and a couple had backed up pretty badly through spring and summer, but clean out was pretty easy. The whole project took maybe an hour. Last year, the first time I did it, they were all completely filled with soil. One I had to chop out a massive root with my sawzall, which is always super fun. Any…check it out! I’m not affiliated with the organization except as an enthusiastic sewer nerd. submitted by /u/MikeBegley |
