(290 - Windsor Health Care Center)

Windsor Health Care Center is a larger property along Sausal Creek. Commercial properties like these could potentially open up access to the creek, allowing for resident seniors to enjoy the local ecology. So what's wrong with this picture of health?

To understand, think about the roof of the building and the pavement — both collection surfaces for rainwater. Combined, they are 45,955 square feet; with 20 inches of annual rain, they will collect 574,438 gallons of stormwater. The gutters drain to the parking lot and the parking lot drains directly into Sausal Creek through a storm drain, adding hundreds of thousands of gallons of rainwater after moving across a parking lot soaked with pollutants (because all parking lots and streets are) into the creek a few feet away. This onslaught of filthy water causes erosion, dirties the creek and deters a healthy ecosystem from being re-established.