GUIDANCE FOR PROPERTY OWNERS

THOSE MAKING DECISIONS FOR THEMSELVES

 

Putting The Practices Into Play Sizing Practices

In the end, better water quality comes down to strategically placing landscape practices that are depend on Roots, Rocks or Roots over Rocks to filter, absorb, infiltrate to retain the one-inch rain!

 

Guiding Principles

  • Restore soil quality

  • Install porous pavement

Proven Practices

  • Bioretention cells

  • Bioswales

  • Dry wells

  • Infiltration trenches

  • Downspout management

  • Vegetation selections

 

How much rain do you want to capture and control?

FAIR:  1/4"

FAIRER:  1/2"

FAIREST:  1"

Size BMP to achieve your FAIR goal:

2) How much rain to you want to retain? 


3) How do you want to retain it? 

 
4) Enter two of the three dimensions to solve the third:

Width:  Length:  Depth: =

  Cubic Feet of Stored


 

 

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