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Rain Garden Research at EPA's Urban Watershed Research Facility
Citation:
STANDER, E. Rain Garden Research at EPA's Urban Watershed Research Facility. Presented at 2009 Conference & Trade Show, Northeast Chapter, International Erosion Control Association, Hartford, CT, October 27 - 28, 2009.
Impact/Purpose:
To inform the public.
Description:
I have been invited to give a presentation at the 2009 National Erosion Conference in Hartford, CT, on October 27-28, 2009. My presentation discusses the research on sizing of rain gardens that is being conducted using the large, parking lot rain gardens on-site. I discuss the construction of the gardens this past summer, including the installation of sensors and monitoring devices that will allow us to compare hydrologic performance in bioretention cells of different sizes which are receiving approximately equivalent amount of stormwater runoff from the adjacent roof and impervious section of the parking lot. The bench-scale study on hydraulic properties of rain garden media and media amendments is also discussed as it pertains to media choices that were made for the parking lot rain gardens. The UWRF rain garden research will also be presented as another example of the potential function of bioretention systems.
