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retention pond A human-made pond where storm water is directed and retained until it can be absorbed into the water table or slowly released without flooding downstream property owners. The modern trend is to prefer absorption into the natural water table,so many local governments impose retention pond requirements as a condition of development,even if storm sewer facilities are available. Many modern office park water features, such as small lakes with fountains, are government-required retention ponds.Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Phase One of Edison Towne ,Square will include a 140,000 s/f Sam's Club with a gas station on Route 1, the widening of Route 1, permanent 50-foot buffers on Vineyard Road and 35-foot buffers on Route 1, and the installation of a road system and drainage system, including the site's retention basin. 787 would remove any bounds from the scope of Clean Water Act jurisdiction, so that the regulatory reach of the act would extend to all water--anywhere from farm ponds, to storm water retention basins, to roadside ditches, to desert washes, to streets and gutters, even to a puddle of rainwater," said AFBF in a letter to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif. You can store your water runoff in your soil by mulching, building ponds or swales to catch and store water, using water gardens or stormwater retention basins to infiltrate stormwater on site, and by capturing water from the roof in tanks for later landscape watering needs. |
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