Collecting precipitation and routing it to areas that will not create a nuisance for an owner's or manager's facility, neighboring properties, or the environment.
refers to functions associated with planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, financing, and regulating the man-made facilities and natural features which collect, store, control, and/or convey STORM WATER.
Engineering practices that are incorporated into the design of a development in order to mitigate or abate adverse water quantity and water quality impacts resulting from development. Stormwater management systems are designed to slow down or retain runoff to re create, as nearly as possible, the pre development flow conditions.
Stormwater management is the mechanism for controlling stormwater runoff for the purposes of reducing downstream erosion, water quality degradation, and flooding and mitigating the adverse effects of changes in land use on the aquatic environment.
Stormwater management includes measures designed to manage, control, and/or mitigate surface runoff from storms, including but not limited to stormwater management facilities and non-structural stormwater management practices. Methods include ponds, wetland marshes, and filtering facilities. As the City has developed over the years, land previously occupied by trees, shrubs, and porous soil has been replaced by structures such as streets, houses, buildings, parking lots, and sidewalks which are all impervious to water. Rainwater, then, courses rapidly over and off these structures with a quantity and velocity which, if unchecked, can have and has had damaging effects to streams and stream banks unable to handle it. Moreover, this flowing water runoff takes with it a volume of sediment and a variety of pollutants including fertilizers, oil, and pet waste which have their own deleterious effects. The combination of storm drainage systems and stormwater management is designed to manage and reduce these consequences of urban runoff.
Functions associated with planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, financing, and regulating the facilities (both constructed and natural) that collect, store, control, and/or convey stormwater
Stormwater management is the process of controlling and processing runoff from rain and storms so it does not harm the environment or human health.
The management of runoff to provide controlled release rates to receiving systems, typically through the use of detention/retention facilities such as lakes.