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Guidelines For Utilizing Rain Gardens as a Stormwater Management Tool in the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSD) - Steps to Getting off of the Storwater "Grid"
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To inform Public
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Rain gardens are designed to capture and infiltrate rainwater in the landscape. These gardens are also called "rain water gardens". Rainwater is routed to the garden and filtered naturally by the plants and soils in the garden. This filtration process removes nutrients and pollutants. In its simplest form, a rain garden is a relatively small area of plantings near the drain spout of a building or paved area. However, large highly engineered gardens employing engineered soils and underdrains of varying designs may be required for gardens that receive runoff into a small area from a larger impervious area.
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Record Type:DOCUMENT
Product Published Date:07/08/2008
Record Last Revised:08/19/2010
OMB Category:Other
Record ID:
199485