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Worth watching: Leveraging the landscape to manage water

January 1, 2010 by Debbie Hamrick

Animated video about how functional landscapes can manage stormwater.

(2010) American Society of Landscape Architects. This short video explains how working landscapes can manage stormwater in just four minutes. Developed as a video animation by the American Society of Landscape Architects, content covers green roofs, permeable pavement and bioretention/rain garden features and their ability to retain stormwater, thus diverting it from the storm sewer.

https://vimeo.com/15225376

Filed Under: LID Tagged With: Functional landscapes, Green infrastructure

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