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Facilities - recognizing your facility
How to recognize your facility
Your homeowners association should have access to information about the locations and types of facilities serving your property. If the…
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Clean Water for All
Theme 3: Clean Water for All - Let’s Make a Splash for Positive Change!!!
Volunteers plant street trees in a neighborhood to help intercept stormwater, add shade and improve air…
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Facilities - Biofiltration swale
Biofiltration Swale
A biofiltration swale uses grass or other dense plants to filter out sediment and oily materials. Swales often look like flat-bottomed channels with grass growing in…
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Facilities - Catch basin
Catch basin and manhole
Catch basin - storm drain
Good - This manhole shows a well maintained interior.Catch basins and manholes are underground concrete…
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Facilities - Detention pond
Detention Pond
Good: A well maintained detention pond.
Detention ponds are dry between storms.
Good: A well-maintained detention
pond draining slowly after a storm.
A…
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Facilities - Dry well
Drywell
Good: A typical drywell lid.
Good: A well-maintained drywell interior.
A drywell is an open-bottomed manhole used to infiltrate stormwater into the ground…
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Facilities - Filter strip
Filter Strip
A filter strip is a straight swatch of grass that removes sediment and oils from stormwater. Usually, filter strips are along edges of paved areas such as parking lots and…