{"id":3494,"date":"2008-06-06T08:33:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T13:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2008-06-06T08:33:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T13:33:31","slug":"i_guess_the_whole_west_nile_problem_is_gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/i_guess_the_whole_west_nile_problem_is_gone.html","title":{"rendered":"I Guess The Whole West Nile Problem Is Gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06062008\/news\/regionalnews\/roll_out_the_barrels_114207.htm\">I assumed there was a small problem with the whole standing water thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The city is thinking outside the box &#8212; or, rather, inside the barrel &#8212; over water demand this summer. <\/p>\n<p>A pilot program by the Department of Environmental Protection will hand out 250 rain barrels this month to Queens residents to collect storm water from rooftops for lawn-watering use. <\/p>\n<p>The DEP estimates that up to 40 percent of some households&#8217; summer water consumption goes to irrigation. <\/p>\n<p>The barrels will be handed out in the lawn-heavy neighborhoods of Rosedale, St. Albans, New Hyde Park and Floral Park.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I assumed there was a small problem with the whole standing water thing: The city is thinking outside the box &#8212; or, rather, inside the barrel &#8212; over water demand this summer. A pilot program by the Department of Environmental Protection will hand out 250 rain barrels this month to Queens residents to collect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_natural_world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}