Rain gardens, green infrastructure initiatives designed to mimic natural systems such as native prairies, help keep urban runoff out of sewers and surface waters, suppressing stormwater’s negative ...
We simulated 5 to 25% of land cover converted to green infrastructure rain gardens. The figure below shows how total runoff for the no green infrastructure (blue color) is about 25% higher than runoff ...
A Rain Garden or "bioretention basin" is a vegetated depression in an urban landscape that collects, treats, and recharges storm water into the ground. Because it is a garden as much as it is a ...