More on Buried streams

• Hidden Waters by Sergey Kadinsky documents the lost streams and ponds of New York City and beyond.

• Hidden Hydrology is a project by landscape architect Jason King that explores lost rivers, buried creeks & disappeared streams.

• Uncovering the History of the District’s Buried Streams examines the past and future of DC’s waterways.

• 📺 Lost Rivers is a documentary film by Caroline Bacle about hidden waterways around the world and the people dedicated to finding and exposing them.

• Seep City by Joel Pomerantz maps San Francisco’s historical waterscape.

• Watercourses: Looking for the lost streams, kills, rivers, brooks, ponds, lakes, burns, brakes, and springs of New York

• Stony Brook: Boston’s Stygian river by AdamG (Universal Hub, 2018)

Baltimore

• For more on the history of Remington check out Kathleen C. Ambrose’s wonderful book, Remington: The History of a Baltimore Neighborhood

• Elliot Plack maps the current (tunneled) paths of a few of Baltimore’s buried waterways

• More on the 1904 Olmsted Brothers plan for Baltimore (olmstedmaryland.org)

• A 2011 conceptual proposal by Marc Szarkowski to daylight the Jones Falls and create a riverfront promenade — full PDF here

• Blue Water Baltimore works tirelessly to protect Baltimore’s waterways and raise the awareness of our watershed

• Baltimore Tree Trust is increasing the city’s tree canopy. Contact them to get a free tree!

• Baltimore City Department of Public Works maintains the city’s water and sewer infrastructure.

• Contact your state and federal representatives to advocate for climate resilience and infrastructure investments. Find my: Maryland State Rep, U.S. Congressperson, and Baltimore City Councilperson.

• Councilman Mark Conway is legislating a Climate Resilience Authority along with other projects to help prepare Baltimore for a changing climate.

Daylighting & Green Infrastructure

• Daylighting Tibbetts Brook in New York City by Nathan Kensinger. (Curbed, 2018)

• The challenges and benefits of daylighting the Chesapeake Bay’s buried streams by Jeremy Cox. (Bay Journal, 2023)

• Seven Canyons Trust is working to daylight and restore streams in Salt Lake City.

• Finding the Flint is a multifaceted project to restore and rediscover the Flint River headwaters in Atlanta

• The St. George Rainway Project

• Daylighting the Saw Mill River by Nathan Kensinger. (Curbed, 2016)

• Paris Buried a River 100 Years Ago. Now The City Needs To Resurface It to Combat Climate Change. (Time, 2022)

• Daylighting Streams report (American Rivers, 2016)

• 🔈 Could Detroit’s buried streams see the light of day? (WDET, 2023)

Other Art & design Projects on lost waterways

Buried rivers are a rich topic for artists and designers such as myself. Here are just a few of the other projects dedicated to rediscovering and reimagining a forgotten landscape.

• Still Waters by Platform. London, 1992.

• Emergence by Rachel Parish. Atlanta, 2022.

• Forgotten Streams by Cristina Iglesias. London, 2017.

• Waterlust by Iman Pearson. Atlanta, 2018.

• Ghost Arroyos by Emily Schlickman and Kristina Loring. San Francisco, 2016.

• Missing Waters by Stacy Levy. New York, 2020.

• Town Branch Water Walk by SCAPE. Lexington, 2016.

• Steve Duncan explores and photographs underground rivers around the world.