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Open space through stormwater management: Helping to structure growth on the urban fringe
| Author: |
Tourbier, J.Toby |
| Date: |
1994 |
| Periodical: |
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation |
| Abstract: |
This article advocates a holistic approach that views stormwater as a vital part of the hydrologic cycle involving management practices to insure infiltration, control runoff pollution, reduce thermal impacts and control peak flows. Management practices for this kind of control put the landscape to work by utilizing processes of nature such as vegetative filtering during conveyance, cooling through shade trees, detention through depression storage, and infiltration. When implemented in settings that prior to the introduction of impervious surfaces did not experience much runoff, such management practices can be designed to form systems that function as an extension of the existing riparian landscape. The public is beginning to accept that bodies of water, wetlands, and floodplains are best used as permanent open space, protected through land use controls. These open spaces follow stream valleys and can be expanded and enhanced through stormwater management practices on adjacent development sites. |
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