Implemention of water conservation programs, including repurposing retired steel fermentation tanks to
collect runoff water for re-irrigation, saving millions of gallons of water per year.
Not exact matches
The project also included the development of an initiative that
collects water to help alleviate storm
water runoff.
As a result, rainwater bounces off and
collects as
runoff, picking up impurities — including infectious bacteria from animal waste as well as harmful pesticides and fertilizers — on the way to municipal storm sewers, which in turn eventually empty out into local bodies of
water.
Location, location, location — Pick a site for your garden where
runoff from your driveway or roof gutters can be diverted into it or that tends to
collect water.
Dr. Diane Boellstorff, AgriLife Extension
water resource specialist, College Station, said proper fertilizer application and efficient
water irrigation can protect and improve
water quality in area creeks, and
collecting rainwater for lawn and landscape needs reduces stormwater
runoff.
Grand Plan: The school «scovered entryway (once a parking lot) channels
water to a
collecting area, educating students about rainfall and
runoff.
A 525,000 square foot stockpile area will be created to store approximately 300,000 metric tons of coal, which will include a
water collection and storage pond to
collect runoff, stacker feed conveyors and a coal reclaim system.»
Green infrastructure promotes the natural movement of
water by
collecting and managing stormwater
runoff from streets, sidewalks, parking lots and rooftops and directing it to engineered systems that typically feature soils, stones, and vegetation.
But Homestead Economics has a neat video of their rainwater garden system, which
collects stormwater
runoff from a long dirt driveway, diverts it to carefully designed grow beds surrounded by a berm, and then
collects any excess
water in a retention pond for future irrigation.
Their simulations compared well to data
collected on snowpack distribution and
water runoff.