Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Possible Solutions To Local Runoff Problem

Last week, Katherine Kowalczyk, an environmental engineer from Fuss & O’Neil, and Gina DeMarco from the Northern Rhode Island Conservation District returned our class to review options for solving the runoff problem on Rockland Rd. These were the three options presented:

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In the end, we selected the Filter Strip design because it offers the best reduction in flow rate of the runoff and the greatest likelihood that contaminants will be filtered by the soil surrounding the basin before the water reaches the stream.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is cool. How will you alert local residents to your choice?