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Engineering, construction costs delay Bay watershed progress
“The multibillion-dollar burden to fix the state’s Chesapeake Bay watershed is justified because of poor planning and high engineering and construction costs, experts say.” And our quote…. “Another reason for high costs is that damage done to one small area … Continue reading
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Pervious Paving References
Happened upon a couple of pervious paving references funded or developed by a concrete industry group. The first 182 page PDF is on maintenance – which is an incredibly important concern. View or download it here. The other smaller doc … Continue reading
Rain Gardens
We’ve been design ALOT of rain gardens in Maryland. Right now, the rationale is squeezed into the current Maryland Design Manual by “qualification” for a rooftop disconnect. This will hopefully change in the future to facilitate more opportunities to apply … Continue reading
Desperately Seeking a Better Lawn
After all but ignoring our lawn for a couple of years to avoid the potential effects of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, we have finally decided to get proactive – organically. A bit of perusing revealed a great organization with parrallel … Continue reading
Ponds versus Environmental Site Design (ESD) or Low Impact Development (LID) Measures – Life or Death
One of the many, many issues associated with the decision to design smaller, shallower ESD / LID measures in lieu of traditionally larger detention, extended detention, or retention ponds is safety. The most horrible thought is that of a child’s … Continue reading
Rain Barrels
A post recently on the Yahoo Bioretention Group by Rick Stanford included a bunch of Rain Barrel sources: ” The Internet is full of design suggestions for rain barrels that are different from the typical blue plastic barrel. For instance, … Continue reading
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Stormwater Magazine Article – The Messy Business of Maintaining BMPs
“The big problem, though, is that homeowners’ associations, private businesses, and private property owners are often unprepared to maintain their stormwater BMPs. It’s not that they don’t want to keep the devices running well; they just don’t know how. Fortunately, … Continue reading
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Trees in Captivity
Interesting design by field operations….. looks like a tree zoo, no? Pretty cool website too.
Sustainable Farmer of the ….. Century?
It’s always nice to see someone go Sustainable. It’s even better to see them hold to their core beliefs. And it is fantastic to see them become amazingly successful at it. It’s all about breaking it down to Local Food. … Continue reading
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