Cleveland's Hidden Streams: An Interview with Dr. Roy Larick (Pt. 1)

Clean Water Works · Oct 18, 2022 · 31m

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"Working with rain is better than fighting it."

Dr. Roy Larick is an archaeologist who investigates the weave of natural and human forces in building inner-ring urban landscapes. In Part 1 of our interview, Dr. Larick discusses his work to identify buried ravines under Cleveland and show how some flooding issues could be remedied by reconnecting to those stream systems. We talk about old maps and more modern methods of discovery, and Dr. Larick shares a brief history of Kingsbury Run and the Sidaway Bridge.

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Here's a 2019 Plain Dealer feature on Dr. Larick.

Here's a…