Antioch Low-Income Housing: West Rivertown

7th and I Sts., Antioch Map

West Rivertown Phase II is 40 units of low-income housing built in 2007 in burgeoning Antioch’s old town near the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Below, interior parking lot drains to drought-tolerant landscaping. Cobbles prevent erosion.

Below left, roofs, like parking, drain to drought-tolerant landscaping. These landscaped areas have both buried underdrains and surface drains (shown). Light rains soak in and are filtered. In large storms, heavy flows go to storm drain pipes.

Below right, grating covers a swale where it continues under a sidewalk.

Below left, a covered trash enclosure, draining to the sanitary sewer, keeps pollution from trash containers out of the nearby Sacramento River.

Below right, apartments with landscaping for pollution prevention at the project’s main entrance.