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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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EPA Guidance on SWM Maintenance
Good discussion of Operation & Maintenance and sample documents here.
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World’s Largest SWM Facility
Don’t really know, but we would guess it is Lake Okeechobee in central Florida. Interesting article on some of the issues they are dealing with – all on a very large scale – here.
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Environmental Site Design (ESD) in Maryland – the new 2007 law
“Environmental site design.” Get used to the term. It is also called “low impact development.” Developers will have to rely even heavily on their site designers when Maryland’s new stormwater management law and regulations go into effect next year. The … Continue reading
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Serious Green Roofs
The largest collection of photos we’ve run across here.
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More on Pervious Concrete
in New England, a demo by Agg Industries. Read it here
Ratting out violations
I happened upon this post, that referred to this post. Long and short: the later post advocated citizens running around trying to find and report erosion and sediment control problems in the Atlanta area. Being a legit business person, I … Continue reading
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