Compensatory Flood Storage on Chagrin
We are getting our NEO act together – slowly. Right west of the Beachwood Water Tank (Kinsman pumping station) The First Catholic Slovak Ladies Association has constructed a rain water catchment basin at the front of their property.
This is a radical improvement from what has been going on here for years – whenever new hard impervious surfaces were constructed, there has been no requirement to install compensatory storage to accommodate the additional runoff resulting from the added impervious surface.
Finally the message is sinking in and municipalities are compelling storage with new construction. This will save all taxpayers from having to construct larger drainage systems on public property. The closer rain is stopped where it falls and is absorbed – the cheaper the infrastructure costs.
I hope to balance my many cynical posts with good news such as this.
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