Rainwater
Garden and Driveway Rainwater |
10 June 2008 |
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What is Rainwater Garden? |
| Rain gardens are growing in popularity as an attractive, low-maintenance landscape alternative that helps protect and restore water quality. They are designed and planted to capture rain water so it can penetrate into the soil. This reduces the stormwater runoff that takes pollutants from the air, yards and streets and carries them into lakes, rivers and wetlands. A rain garden is a way for homeowners or business owners to reduce the effects of polluted stormwater runoff simply by planting a specialized garden designed to capture redirected runoff water and allow it to slowly drain into the ground and recharge our underground aquifers with filtered, cleaner water. Rain gardens are also a way to beautify property with perennial plants that require little maintenance, thrive without fertilizer or pesticide, and enhance the value and attractiveness of your neighborhood and community. |
| Rain Gardens are an infiltration technique - water is captured in a garden shaped like a basin that uses native plants. Native plants are beautiful, colorful, highly adapted plants that have grown and have adapted to varying water flows by developing long and thick root systems and special leaf structures that are well-suited to drawing water deep into the underground. The native plant roots and the empty channels left by last year's roots give the water the "pipes" to re-enter the ground rather than run off into the storm sewer. This ground-filtering process helps clean our precious resource - our water. |
| Build your Rain Garden |
| WhatIs a Rain Garden? A rain garden is designed to catch rainwater and slow, decrease, and improve the quality of storm water runoff. A rain garden can take many different forms ....... >> Read More [PDF]. |
| Small Rain Garden Technical Guide |
| This technical design guide will help you decide if a rain garden is right for your site. ....... >> Read More [PDF]. |
| Rain Garden Guide |
| What is a Rain Garden? A rain garden, or bioretention basin, is a low-impact water quality Best Management Practice (BMP) which uses natural means to mimic the natural hydrologic ....... >> Read More [PDF]. |
Links |
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| Parking area water harvesting |
| Here's a link to the Morton Arboretum that uses a unique way to handle water on driveway & parking areas. I've been caught in a heavy rain in the parking lot and my feet stayed dry. The water absorbs straight through the pores. ....Mike. >> Read More [PDF]. |
| Driveway rainwater infiltration |
| An alternate which allows infiltration is the use of driveway
products that allow vehicle movement but do not compact the ground, and allow growth of
grass. Read More>> Grass Cel Turf Players / Grass Pavers . |
| Driveway rainwater infiltration- Invisible structures |
| Grass pave - the best of all, with about 95% grass and a small area suitable for driving army tanks on!!!. Can also use gravel to fill the structures. All require a sand base, but do allow around 80 - 95% infiltration.Read More>> Grass Cel Turf Players. The above are available in at least the USA and Australia, and probably Europe. |
| Driveway rainwater infiltration- Underground Structures |
| In Australia, an option being explored is the use of underground tanks in the driveway, for rainwater collection. At least one company has developed a special donut shaped tank specifically for under the driveway installation. >> Read More |
| Rainwater Harvesting Yahoo Group |
| Rainwater Discussion Forum.. >> Click here |