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''While navigating the wiki, I have come across a number of references to using excess water for irrigation on green roofs or rain barrels. However, it may be useful to include information on 'Keyline Design,' first developed by P. A. Yeomans in the 1950's. While geared towards agricultural and pastoral improvement, it has applications in most water management systems. At its core, its a system of manipulating land as little as possible for the greatest impact on moving or retaining water on a site - with particular interest in passively moving water from inundated depressions to dry ridges. Let me know if you'd like to discuss further. Hope this is helpful. Alex'' | ''While navigating the wiki, I have come across a number of references to using excess water for irrigation on [[green roofs]] or [[rain barrels]]. However, it may be useful to include information on 'Keyline Design,' first developed by P. A. Yeomans in the 1950's. While geared towards agricultural and pastoral improvement, it has applications in most water management systems. At its core, its a system of manipulating land as little as possible for the greatest impact on moving or retaining water on a site - with particular interest in passively moving water from inundated depressions to dry ridges. Let me know if you'd like to discuss further. Hope this is helpful. Alex'' | ||
*Excellent reference, thank you Alex. I shall create a page explaining these [[Keyline design]] principles, which I believe are similar to 'micro-grading'. | *Excellent reference, thank you Alex. I shall create a page explaining these [[Keyline design]] principles, which I believe are similar to 'micro-grading'. | ||
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4 November 2018
While navigating the wiki, I have come across a number of references to using excess water for irrigation on green roofs or rain barrels. However, it may be useful to include information on 'Keyline Design,' first developed by P. A. Yeomans in the 1950's. While geared towards agricultural and pastoral improvement, it has applications in most water management systems. At its core, its a system of manipulating land as little as possible for the greatest impact on moving or retaining water on a site - with particular interest in passively moving water from inundated depressions to dry ridges. Let me know if you'd like to discuss further. Hope this is helpful. Alex
- Excellent reference, thank you Alex. I shall create a page explaining these Keyline design principles, which I believe are similar to 'micro-grading'.
31 August 2018
Take a look a this address : https://stormwater.extension.oregonstate.edu/standard-details There's plenty interesting plans with notes to see how to make important changes to the plans following the field reality!
- GreenGirl subscribes to the same share-and-share alike Creative Commons licensing as we do. We have her website and a few similar resources linked on our Drawings page.
25 July 2018
Do the units check out for calculating the total depth of the stone reservoir? (i.e. should f' be in units of m/hr instead of m/day?)
- The notation used in the equations on Permeable paving: Sizing is being brought into line with the other sections of the site. Units have also been checked and brought into line to millimeters and hours as used for the other BMPs.
16 July 2018
I think Table 1 in this article (http://pubs.rsc.org/ru/content/articlehtml/2018/ew/c7ew00511c) would be good for the wiki guide - it explains the traits of vegetation and how they impact hydrology or water quality.
- Thanks Sylvie, the information from within that article has been used to produce a similar table on the Plants page.
11 June 2018
The term "forebay" has a strong industry connection to SWM ponds, should this page have a different/more specific name?
- Thanks Alana and Steve, "Forebay" now redirects to the newly named Pretreatment features page as you suggest.
24 April 2018
A general feedback from a french user - I do not know the meaning of the acronym LID, used profusely in this article, making it hard to understand. I think it would be very helpful to have a definition for all the acronyms by hovering the mouse cursor over them, just like you did in the sixth paragraph of "Targeting hard surfaces" with the definition of "Rainwater harvesting". This type of definition should be available for all the acronyms used in every other pages of this wiki, at least once per acronym per page.
- 'LID' has been added to the terms using the same definition for 'Low Impact Development'. We will continue to look for missing information of this type.
10 April 2018
Do you have any specs for designing berms around a bioretention pond?
- Please see Berms
23 March 2018
Is it possible to get the the planting list updated to include native species?
- Certainly! This information will be added as we review the plant tables in summer 2018.
21 March 2018
Is there a reliable set of estimated design infiltration rates for sites where only soil type is currently known? Additional tests will be conducted, but for now we are looking for numbers to begin an estimate, and a reasonable basis for those numbers.
- The curators of Minnesota's stormwater wiki have conducted a very thorough literature review to establish their suggested values for design infiltration rates[1]. The lowest value on their table for clayey soils is 15 mm/hr, we believe that this is a reasonable estimate for clay soils. Designers may wish to add a safety correction to this number before undertaking their design calculations.
- ↑ Minnesota Stormwater Manual contributors, "Design infiltration rates," Minnesota Stormwater Manual, , https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Design_infiltration_rates&oldid=37031 (accessed May 11, 2018).