Woman’s New Life Center
The civil engineers were tasked with managing and treating 1,000 cubic feet of stormwater runoff within a 1,200 square foot area, most of which is a parking surface.
...OUR APPROACH
Pretreatment for Bioretention Ponds and Bioswales can do much to extend both the life and maintenance intervals required of the biofilters. Whether you use forebays, inlets filters, or all-encompassing inlet structures, the investment in pretreatment can always be justified. Some other benefits of pretreatment are as follows:
Inlet Treatment Structures
- Provide Flow Dissipation
- Prevent Slope Erosion and Degradation
- Trash Collection That is Out of Sight
- Sediment Accumulation
- Simple Maintenance
Forebays
- Prevents Erosion and Scour of Biofilter
- Meters Flow into Biofilter
- Sediment and Trash Accumulation
- Extends Life of Biofilters
An essential component of any bioretention pond or bioswale is the overflow inlet. These inlets are designed to carry larger flows once the water quality volume has been captured or treated. There are few things you should always consider when designing the overflow structures:
- Overflow Elevation – If too high, water will pond longer than anticipated, potentially damaging the plants, if too low, desired treatment will not be achieved.
- Grate Type – Always use slanted or bee hive grates to prevent debris from clogging. Flat Grates should never be used.
- Treatment – Inexpensive overflow treatment can be used to capture any floatables that might make it through the bioswales
Construction EcoServices has collected the best in pretreatment options for bioretention ponds and bioswales. No other company has a better combination of solutions for your Low Impact Development project. Learn more about the various pretreatment products and solutions by clicking one of the links to the right.
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OUR LID CASE STUDIES
Springwoods Village
Many Low Impact Development Practices were used, including bioretention, bioswales, vegetated structural roadway shoulders, permeable pavers and rainwater harvesting and reuse.
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Queenston Manor
Working with Construction EcoServices, the engineers at EHRA, Inc. rescued this project using Low Impact Development (LID).
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NOLA Science School
Structural soil cells from Citygreen, called Stratavault, were chosen to provide 50,000 CF of soil for all the trees in the park. Stratavault is a modular design that provides structural support for...
Merritt Road
Traditional bioretention was not feasible with the limited area for treatment and long-term maintenance, leaving the engineers with a decision to use FocalPoint High Flow Biofiltration.
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Martinez Professional Office Buildings
The engineers were able to take advantage of using Harris County’s Low Impact Development (LID) regulations by increasing the time of concentration of storm water on this site.
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Kolbe Farms
The LID solution nearly eliminated the need for a detention pond altogether and in the process gained three additional lots, or 15% more homes.
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Houston Parks Board
Within the swales are a series of forebays that pond stormwater behind earthen berms, at the bottoms of which are 10” pipes that allow low flows through and extend time of concentration for larger...
Harris County Precinct 4
Harris County Precinct 4 decided to go with developing their new service center as a Low Impact Development site to implement the allowable practices in the counties Low Impact Development Design Manual...
Gretna City Hall
Within the swales are a series of forebays that pond stormwater behind earthen berms, at the bottoms of which are 10” pipes that allow low flows through and extend time of concentration for larger...
Double Tree Ranch Park
The unpredictable and frequent storms, combined with clay soils, forced the design team to create a solution that would perform under extreme conditions while keeping the long-term maintenance costs...
Dallas Street
If the City of Ennis was going to invest heavily into a pedestrian friendly roadway, they needed to ensure the trees would survive and reach full maturity.
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Centennial Park
Structural soil cells from Citygreen, called Stratavault, were chosen to provide 50,000 CF of soil for all the trees in the park. Stratavault is a modular design that provides structural support for...
Bullard Medical Center
How did PowerBlock serve the function of a detention pond, drainage inlet and a water quality unit on this project?
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Bryant Park in NOLA
A vacant lot next on the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Calliope was going to be a challenge to develop into a new eatery and bar in the Warehouse District. The surrounding environment isn’t the most...
Birnamwood Drive – Overview
Utilizing a dry swale as the primary conveyance feature, the design team explored the various biofiltration medias available for filtering pollutants.
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Birnamwood Drive – Details
Within the swales are a series of forebays that pond stormwater behind earthen berms, at the bottoms of which are 10” pipes that allow low flows through and extend time of concentration for larger...
FEATURED LID PRODUCT
The modular Stratavault system employs advanced design geometry and reinforced copolymers to produce an incredibly robust, skeletal matrix. This matrix has been tested by Finite Element Analysis, as well as physical Ultimate Load tests at university. These test results have been verified by consulting engineers to provide adequate support for pavement loads
THE WHY!
Why Choose Us?
Established in 2002, we provide our clients a proven, systematic approach and a reliable experienced team that can take all compliance logistical burdens off your shoulders. What could make your life simpler? One call. One point of contact. New project launches simplified. Compliance simplified. Compliance assured.
Other key reasons to choose us:
- We provide the most appropriate, cost-effective, and innovative solutions
- Our experience and expertise is the fundamental “product” our clients buy
- We focus on our customer’s success
- Our high degree of integrity
- Our ability to customize and problem solve
- All our field crew are OSHA 30
- We are agents of stormwater change
If achieving the highest level of compliance while reducing risk and lowering costs is important to you, then let’s work together. We provide full turnkey stormwater management consulting and solutions. All field crew are OSHA 30 certified.
Tell us about your project and get a quick quote.
Stormwater: Why Care?
Stormwater management may seem like a relatively new industry, but it has actually been around since the Roman times. They knew, even back then, that managing stormwater runoff was a key issue to urban living. With poor stormwater management, both flooding and disease constantly wreaked havoc in ancient cities.
Not much has changed since then, except now, with more and more of the earth being covered over with cement and other impervious surfaces, the negative effects of poor stormwater management have increased exponentially. Our natural water supplies are at risk due to pollution and their lack of ability to recharge. The flowing of our waterways are at risk from erosion, sediment build up, and trash. And, our marine life is at risk, from all the chemicals finding their way into bodies of water.
Some may see stormwater management as just another unnecessary and unwanted cost to construction projects or property ownership and management. But, understanding the negative effects that poor or no stormwater management is causing should be a concern to us all. It affects where we live and play. It affects our marine-based food supply. It affects our dwindling water supply.
We care. It is why we do what we do.
