Tell them how compost filter berms work as a physical, chemical, and
biological filter for storm water runoff and using them in conjunction with
compost blankets can reduce the runoff to zero. This is a developing method that
is gaining speed fast and that UGA (me) is researching this right
now.
Britt Faucette
Organics Recycling & Compost Specialist
Engineering Outreach
The University of Georgia
ph:(706) 542-4768
email: faucette@engr.uga.edu
"Nothing is exhausted in its first use. When a thing has served an
end to the uttermost, it is wholly new for an ulterior service"
--- RW Emerson
>Keeping the stormwater on site is the best way to keep oils,
pesticides,
>fertilizers etc out of lakes and creeks. Berms and swales and
vegetated
>buffers
>are tested methods that make sense everywhere from commercial to
residential
>to
>parking lots. The detention ponds popular in the past are
starting to lose
>favor
>unless they can be turned into recreational amenities in the
middle of a
>park,
>or are used to expand habitat, or are a component of a larger
constructed
>wetland system.
>
>At UNC Chapel Hill, where we've got 5.9 million square feet of
new
>construction
>planned over the next ten years, we've pledged not to increase
the volume,
>rate,
>or pollutant load of our stormwater runoff. And we've pledged
that for each
>of
>the five watersheds on campus. Pervious surfaces and water
storage
>techniques
>hold the key. We're currently planning three green roofs, two on
buildings
>and
>one on a parking garage. (I've gathered lots of resources on the
subject if
>you're interested in knowing more.) We're testing pervious
pavement in
>parking
>lots. And if we can do it here with our slow to drain clay soil,
anybody
>can.
>We're partially daylighting a couple of buried streams that now
flow in
>pipes.
>We're building a water storage area under an athletic field. And
we're
>looking
>into cisterns.
>
>Slowing the rate at which stormwater runs off into surface water
bodies is
>essential to reducing pollution. Median strips, vegetated
buffers, green
>roofs,
>reconstructed wetlands, cisterns, anything that stores water will
help.
>
>Good luck,
>Cindy Pollock Shea
>Sustainability Coordinator
>UNC Chapel Hill
>
>Chris Cloutier wrote:
>
> > I am working with four neighborhood groups to develop a
non-profit that
>will
> > work to improve and protect the water quality in two urban
lakes and one
> > creek. I am looking for urban stormwater management methods
that are: 1)
> > tested and proven; 2) developing and increasing in
practice; and, 3)
> > experimental and need to be tested.
> >
> > Any direction would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Chris Cloutier
> > e4 partners, inc.
> > 2801 21st Ave S
> > Minneapolis, Minnesota 55407
> > 612.278.7140
> > 612.278.7141 (f)
> > www.e4partners.com
> >
> > ******************************************
> > To post to the greenyes list,
> > email to: greenyes@grrn.org
> >
> > Subscription information for
> > this list is available here:
> > http://www.grrn.org/general/greenyes.html
> > ******************************************
>
>------------------------------
>
>End of [Greenyes Digest] V2 #27
>*******************************
>
>******************************************
>You are subscribed to the GreenYes Digest.
>
>To post to the greenyes list,
>email to: greenyes@grrn.org
>
>Subscription information for
>this list is available here:
>http://www.grrn.org/general/greenyes.html
>******************************************
><< attach3 >>