Arroyo Flooding at UTEP

https://youtu.be/ZG55qUQubfg

Written by Frederic Williams

Enid Martinez
RWS 1302
Dr. Vierra
University of Texas at El Paso
8/2/2018
FINAL DRAFT
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1 POV Laptop in stream landscape SFX forest
0:06
ZOOM Into laptop

2 ANGLE Shift to footage of arroyo on screen SFX forest

0:12
TITLE Arroyos of UTEP

3 INSERT Arroyo: A small deep gully or VO VO Self: “Arroyo: A small deep gully or
0:18 channel of a dry desert contains channel of a dry desert contains streamflow
streamflow only after rain only after rain”

4 PAN Subject to flooding picture SFX Dramatic jingle

0:24
5 MONTAGE Desert rains SFX Thunder and rain
0:30

6 MONTAGE Arroyos filling up SFX Thunder and rain

0:36

7 MONTAGE Rapid arroyos SFX Thunder and rain

0:42
8 INSERT Question: How are arroyos SFX Jingle
0:48 managed in urban areas?

9 PAN Arroyo with water at UTEP SFX Jingle

0:54
INSERT Lesson 1 Soil Crusts VO Self: “After rainfall, bare soils develop a
dry outermost layer called a crust.

10 PAN Hydrophobic soil and Chihuahuan SFX Jingle

1:00 desert
This layer absorbs minimal water and
increases runoff from storms.”

Mualem et al. p. 132

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11 INSERT Lesson 2 Asphalt SFX Jingle
1:06
VO Self: “Pavement makes a waterproof
seal found in cities that increases the
quantity and the speed of urban runoff.”

12 PAN Water on streets and going into drain SFX Jingle

1:12
VO Self: “Pavement makes a waterproof
seal found in cities that increases the
quantity and the speed of urban runoff”

13 PAN Old parking lot on inner campus SFX Jingle

1:18
14 INSERT LESSON 3 ASPHALT SFX Jingle
1:24
PAN TRASHED STORM DRAIN

15 INSERT Littered arroyo leading into campus SFX Jingle

1:30
Original footage of arroyo VO Self: “Drain systems have to be
monitored regularly for trash”

16 Shot of Greg McNicol VO Greg McNicol: “After any rain event

1:36 grounds people are the first to go out and
Original footage of arroyo
check all the grates

17 Original footage of arroyo through pipes They're designed to catch debris and keep
1:42 material out of the pipe but we don't want to
get material down in there because I don't
want to send anybody in there to have to
clean it up, or get the city to have to do that”

18 PAN & INSERT Aerial view of UTEP prior to SFX Jingle

1:52 2009
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19 SHOT 1914-2014 signs VO Self: “UTEP celebrated it’s one hundred-
2:00 year anniversary with the campus
transformation project. “

20 INSERT Centennial celebration 2014

2:03
21 Videos: Celebration clips
2:06

22 PAN Master plan cover page VO Self: “The master plan was drafted by
2:12 2009 and detailed various streets running
through the inner campus

23 Videos of campus before construction that would be replaced by pedestrian-

2:18 friendly trails

24 Campus under construction videos Construction was underway by 2013.”

2:24
Sketches of master plan.

25 Images of campus under construction SFX Jingle

2:30
26 Ten Eyck Website recording VO Self: “Prime consultant, Ten Eyck
2:36 Landscape Architects had previous
experience with higher education
landscaping in

27 Images from Ten Eyck website desert regions and was the perfect
2:42 candidate for the UTEP transformation
design.”

28 Shot of Greg McNicol VO Greg McNicol: “Centennial Plaza, A lot

2:48 of people don't recognize that it collects
some...just under a half a million gallons of
water per rain event

29 Original footage of arroyo on campus there's a whole series of

2:54
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30 Shot of Centennial Plaza Gravel, we put a layer of gravel and then a
3:00 layer of sand and then the brick pavers on
Original footage of arroyo
top

31 Original footage of arroyo, including catch Okay. So the water can actually get down
3:06 basins into this

32 PAN Image catch basins section when it gets kind of flooded and then
3:12 it seeps beyond that back into the ground
well. That rain component is once there the
basin is full

33 Arroyo on campus So there's every time you build something

3:18 you have over full component to it as the
PAN Image of catch basins
water's coming down from off the mountain

34 Drone footage of arroyo coming into the city and if it's flowing this direction One of the
3:24 things that we build as a check dam, is what
they're called, and it's actually a damn that
looks

35 Drone footage. backwards. It does cause the water to

3:30 dissipate and then flow over the top and
slow down and when it gets down further

36 Nyssen et al. 2004: Check dam image

3:36
37 Video of catch basin It'll be another check dam. If you go look in
3:42 the aseqios in and around Centennial Plaza,
you'll see these all over the place”

38 Image of SITES plaque on campus
3:48
Image of Ten Eyck website stating that
UTEP got a silver award, highlighted
VO Self: “The project has been awarded the
Sustainable SITES Initiative Silver
Certification, the first project in the world to
earn SITES

39 Certification beyond the initiatives pilot

3:54 projects, recognizing the project as a model
of sustainability”

40 Shot of Greg McNicol VO Greg McNicol: “I'm proud of the group

4:02 that works here... goes to whether they're
PAN Acknowledgements page pf master
plan
trying to harvester stormwater,
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41 PAN Acknowledgements page pf master energy, water, consumption that we do on
4:08 plan our cooling towers, all of that. Part of why
we're doing that,

42 PAN Tuition and fees image is to keeps your tuition as low as I can. We
4:12 don't want to be the reason your tuition has
to go up.”

43 INSERT What can students do to be a part VO Self: “What can students do to be a part
4:18 of the solution? of the solution?
Background: Campus arroyo

44 PAN recycling bins, red to green to black The Miner Recycling System makes it easy
4:24 and blue. to keep trash off the

45 UTEP street drain UTEP campus and keep our drains and
4:28 arroyo beautiful and functional”

46 Drone footage of arroyo and UTEP buildings SFX Jingle

4:36

47 Background: El Paso sunset SFX Jingle

4:45
Credits roll

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