Water runoff shouldn’t be wasted
As rain drummed on the roof of the car, splashed on the driveway and sluiced downhill into the creek, it carried sand and silt and it had a bit of a rainbow sheen about it, typical of a fuel spill, and likely from the road.
That stream would soon be dumping its cargo into Okanagan Lake, but it meandered through a wetland first. So hopefully, any pollutants would be filtered out before they got into the lake—particularly since our water intake wasn’t far from where it entered the lake.
Runoff from the roof was pooling on the lawn where the downspouts directed it, instead of being captured in a rain barrel for use when the storm was over and the dry heat of summer returned.
Up on the roadway, rainfall from the storm was being caught by the gutters and directed into a storm drain instead of running off into a gravel shoulder or plantings below road level.