City employees test the new “Green Street Project" by poring 2,000 gallons of water onto Bicknell Avenue on Friday, June 12, 2009.  The demonstration project is intended to improve water quality by constructing landscaped biofilter swales, underground holding tanks and laying permeable concreate to capture urban runoff and let it seep back into the soil before it reaches the bay. This project, which can also help replenish groundwater supplies, is funded by Clean Beaches & Ocean Parcel Tax (Measure V) funds and a grant from the State Water Resources Control Board.