Daylighting the WatershedsUGA DESIGN COMPETITION

Two $1,000 prizesDeadline: October 14, 2016

Student teams are invited to participate in the Daylighting the Watersheds design competition to raise awareness about streams that flow through the UGA campus and to support the mission of Watershed UGA by creating a community ethic for the restoration of campus streams. Two projects will be selected to receive prizes of $1,000 each.

Each proposal should feature designs for a project to be installed in one of the following locations:

Tanyard Creek Watershed Site adjacent to Tate Center and Bolton Dining Commons near the intersection of Baxter St. and S. Lumpkin St.

Lilly Branch Watershed Site adjacent to Joe Frank Harris Commons and the Lamar Dodd School of Art near Carlton St. and River Rd.

Selection criteria:

Merit project raises awareness about campus watersheds

Innovation project features new ideas

Feasibility proposal materials consider costs, sustainability, and campus standards

Collaboration proposal materials reflect teamwork and interdisciplinary activity

Presentation proposal materials communicate effectively

Each project team must include at least two UGA students. Watershed UGA encourages teams with participants from more than one discipline or academic department, including students, faculty, staff, and members of the community. Multiple applications are permitted.

Entries must include the following:

- PDF proposal containing project title; site name (Tanyard Creek or Lilly Branch); names, majors, and email addresses of student team members; brief description of project (250-word maximum); and full description of project with images (ten-page maximum).

- 24”x36” poster design to accompany proposal (may be displayed in a public exhibition).

Entry materials should be sent via email to watershed@uga.edu by Friday, October 14 at 5 PM. Posters may be submitted electronically as a PDF or delivered to the UGA River Basin Center, 203 D. Brooks Drive.

One proposal for each site will be selected to receive a $1,000 award. Awards will be announced publicly on November 10, 2016. Projects are protected by the Intellectual Property Policy of the University of Georgia.

Watershed UGA

Watershed UGA facilitates the use of our campus as a living laboratory to advance sustainability and environmental stewardship through teaching, research, service, and university operations. The Daylighting the Watersheds design competition is generously supported by a grant from the Ray C. Anderson Foundation.

Since the founding of UGA in 1785, many natural features of campus watersheds have been steadily altered and relegated to obscurity. Tanyard Creek and Lilly Branch, both tributaries of the North Oconee River, are the most prominent streams that run through campus. Daylighting the Watersheds offers an opportunity to explore the history and significance of two streams that were once part of the daily lives of students, but now lack visibility and recreational benefit.

Tanyard Creek Watershed

The Tanyard Creek watershed encompasses 500 acres including the center of campus, where 74% of the ground’s surface is covered by roads, parking lots, buildings, and other structures that are impervious to water. The headwaters of Tanyard Creek are located underneath a catch basin (concrete drainage pit) on Church Street near the intersection of Milledge Avenue and Broad Street. The stream then flows through a pipe under Broad Street toward campus. Tanyard Creek is visible where it joins with Cloverhurst Branch near the intersection of Baxter Street and South Lumpkin Street before entering a culvert below Sanford Stadium (UGA Football). Tanyard Creek is visible again in the historic Oconee Hill Cemetery as it flows toward the North Oconee River.

Approximately half of Tanyard Creek is piped underground and the stream bed has been greatly affected by urbanization. Pollution and land use changes have led to the introduction of litter, construction waste, manmade gravel, and sand from road and parking lot runoff to the stream. It is listed as an impaired water under the United States Clean Water Act section 303(d) for failure to meet its designated use of fishing as a result of fecal coliform levels. Current sampling tests indicate very poor water quality in excess of Evironmental Protection Agency recommended levels.

Lilly Branch Watershed

The Lilly Branch watershed encompasses 409 acres including east campus, where 40% of the surface is covered by roads, parking lots, buildings, and other structures that are impervious to water. The headwaters of Lilly Branch are in the Five Points neighborhood near the intersection of South Lumpkin Street and Woodrow Street. The stream flows through a culvert under Foley Field (UGA Baseball), is piped under East Campus Road, and becomes visible near the Lamar Dodd School of Art building before reaching the North Oconee River.

Approximately two-thirds of Lilly Branch is piped underground and the stream has a long history of alteration beginning with intensive cotton farming in the area over a century ago. Urbanization in the watershed generates high storm water flows that scour the stream bed and pollute the North Oconee River with sediment. Water quality data indicates high levels of fecal coliform, excessive copper and zinc, and high nutrient loads. Although recent efforts are beginning to treat contamination from leaking underground storage tanks in the area, sampling tests show that only the most pollution-tolerant organisms can survive in the water. Significant stream bank erosion and widespread invasive plant species contribute to further degradation in the Lilly Branch watershed.

Daylighting the Watersheds

Water is integral to our lives, but the problems of local watersheds are often hidden beneath us. In a technical sense, “daylighting” refers to the process of physically revealing streams that were previously covered. Watershed UGA’s design competition extends the concept of daylighting to include art, signage, installations, and other creative works that bring awareness to hidden streams and their complex relationships to social, historical, economic, and environmental conditions. Daylighting the Watersheds projects will inform future developments on campus and engage global issues of sustainability and water management.

For more information about Watershed UGA visit watershed.uga.edu

Questions about the design competition may be sent to watershed@uga.edu

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