How PWC Can Help Design Rain Gardens and Green Stormwater Compliance Areas
Public Works Consultants can be a reliable partner when it comes to creating and managing rain gardens and stormwater compliance areas. The team of consultants at PWC is up to date with some of the latest regulatory requirements when it comes to rain gardens and green stormwater compliance solutions.
Public Works Consultants can help you design stormwater compliance areas and rain gardens without negatively impacting the surrounding areas. The green infrastructure in your locality, such as the soil, vegetation, as well as various natural processes, can be instrumental in your stormwater management and compliance efforts. When properly implemented as part of your stormwater management solution, they can capture, filter, and evaporate the stormwater before it finds its way into the piping system.
We can perform an extensive evaluation of your facilities to determine their status concerning stormwater monitoring, reporting, and permitting requirements. We undertake a comprehensive analysis of the stormwater compliance areas and discharges at your facilities to determine whether or not you will need further assistance cutting down the level of pollutants finding their way into your system. PWC professionals can also implement both reporting and monitoring plans in your facilities to ensure they comply with your stormwater permitting requirements.
Public Works Consultants can help you design green stormwater infrastructures to reduce the impact of flooding and water pollution through the absorption and infiltration of the stormwater. The PWC consulting team can also assist you in designing and provisioning natural relief into the established environment. That helps in not only ensuring stormwater compliance but also improving the street aesthetics to the community.
Public Works Consultants can provide expert coordination of your stormwater compliance areas in such a way as to minimize conflicts with utility placements in your area, reduce conflicts with the high water table levels as well as the subterranean conditions like the location of the bedrock.
PWC will also factor in the soil conditions when designing and planning your green infrastructure strategies in the stormwater compliance areas.
PWC offers professional consulting in various kinds of green stormwater infrastructure that can be useful for your stormwater compliance areas such as:
Rain Gardens:
Rain gardens are also referred to as bioretention systems, pervious strips, bioswales, or as flow-through planters. They act as a form of soil filter that rids pollutants from road runoffs. PWC can advise you on the configuration of the plants as well as soil filtration systems for use as garden beds, as well as the arrangement of street tree pits so that they can perform the function of mitigating stormwater runoff. The rain gardens can also be designed to enable the stormwater runoffs to infiltrate the underlying soils. Some rain gardens can also be designed to collect the treated stormwater and then convey the clean water downstream, thus ensuring stormwater compliance.
The PWC consulting team can design rain garden areas for your municipality to aid in mitigating water runoff problems associated with stormwater. The team can advise you on all aspects of rain garden design and development, including landscaping, picking the right porous planting media, and perennial native plants. Those plants will have been carefully selected based on their sustainability, adaptability, low maintenance, and appeal for the natural habitat. PWC can also advise you on the other hardscapes and landscaping elements that you can add more of a design aspect to your urban rain gardens. These include decorative benches, stone paths, and stone edging to create the right aesthetic appeal to your rain gardens and stormwater compliance areas.
We can also transform your rain garden and stormwater compliance areas into a community initiative by designing modalities for broader community engagement and participation in the design and development of green stormwater compliance areas and rain gardens.
Permeable Paving:
PWC consultants can advise you on the installation of permeable paving that will make it possible for rainwater to flow through the pavement into the soil underneath smoothly. It not only helps in stormwater management and compliance, but it also helps channel water to the nearby landscape. The Public Works Consultants can advise your municipality on the installation of alternate surfaces built with permeable pavements that can help cut down on the stormwater runoff and contribute to the recharging of the water table. Permeable paving can be in the form of both porous paving material that has infiltration gaps in the material or block pavers where the infiltration gaps exist between the pavers.
Swales for stormwater compliance areas:
Public Works Consultants can advise your municipality on the design of swales that can work in place of traditional piping. These are shallow, open, and vegetated water channels that will channel the stormwater runoff and get rid of the pollutants. In swales, the water flows horizontally either on the surface or subsurface layers. They manage the stormwater by slowing down the water flow and then trapping the sediments, thereby contributing to the water quality and ensuring stormwater compliance.
Passive Irrigation Systems:
You could also manage the stormwater flow and ensure compliance by channeling it to the landscaped areas, such as tree pits. These serve the dual function of reducing the stormwater runoff while also providing low-cost irrigation. It diverts the stormwater runoff from the citywide systems and the local drains, thereby relieving the stormwater management pressure from the municipal authorities.
Public Works Consultants can advise your team on how to create all these water-sensitive and passive irrigation system designs.
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