Items tagged: Low Impact Development

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Damage Control

April 1, 2011 - 12:07 pm

While City of Edmonton’s Dr. Fayi Zhou (general supervisor of environmental planning in the City’s drainage services branch) is proud of Edmonton’s Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) and Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Watershed Award recognizing his municipality’s project for adapting...

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Sustainable Stormwater Management

December 21, 2009 - 9:26 am

Stormwater management has become an increasingly challenging issue for urban communities. In many cases, rainwater can no longer follow its natural patterns, which increases the volumes of runoff and its associated problems. In a natural environment, runoff is minimized since rainfall for the most...

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Water by the Barrel

May 11, 2009 - 12:00 am

Low Impact Development (LID), the concept of onsite management of stormwater through natural, decentralized controls, has been catching on fast across Canada and the United States over the last decade. However, any new engineering solution with merit is going to face challenges to adoption as a standard...

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Items tagged: Low Impact Development

Items Found: 3

Damage Control

Sustainable Stormwater Management

Water by the Barrel

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