Rain Message Legibility Deterioration: Subthemes and Illustrative Quotes
| Water movement force can degrade the rain message | Where we have the [decorative] river stones that are embedded, they just they haven’t held up. A lot of them have washed out, and for good reason. We have a lot of water flow through those channels, and it just doesn’t look like a stream bed like it was intended. |
| When we originally designed the project we had some clay checkdams installed to help slow the water down as its moving through the system, and then that was reinforced with some larger rock and cobble that, [in] larger storm events, started to erode. It wasn’t very long after that project that I started moving towards more structural, elegant, different ideas of how we can slow the water down; but with something that is more structurally strong. | |
| Signage deterioration can reduce rain message clarity | In some instances, where’s a lot of canopy cover, there’s vegetation growing on some of the signs, if you will. And so they could do a little better job of keeping those clean and visible. |
| The signage had deteriorated and was difficult to read. |