Sentences with phrase «managing stormwater runoff»
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.
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17) Maryland: Prince George's County signs a 30 year agreement with Corvias to manage stormwater runoff.
Ford Motor Company, for example, has employed a living roof and constructed wetlands and swales to manage stormwater runoff at its restored Rouge River manufacturing site.
«We're looking at creative ways to manage stormwater runoff and other impacts that happen when you develop as densely as we are doing in our urban core.
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In New York City, Green Infrastructure describes an array of practices that use or mimic natural systems to manage urban stormwater runoff.
Like providing appropriate housing for indigenous people living on the city centre fringe, providing sustainable infrastructure support for the burgeoning urban sprawl, reinvigorating discussion on urban renewal by population density consolidation, managing the extensive stormwater runoff that pollutes the beaches and waterways, while wasting precious rainwater.