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All low impact development facilities can help to prevent flooding by providing watershed distributed stormwater storage, and most feature some form of peak flow control device at the outflow or [[overflow]]. The limiting factors in the contribution that a system can make to flood control include the total storage and [[drainage time|the rate at which the system can be emptied between events]].   

All low impact development facilities can help to prevent flooding by providing watershed distributed stormwater storage, and most feature some form of peak flow control device at the outflow or [[overflow]]. The limiting factors in the contribution that a system can make to flood control include the total storage and [[drainage time|the rate at which the system can be emptied between events]].   

Flow is controlled by:  

Flow is controlled by:  

*the properties of the filter media. See [[flow through filter media]],

*the properties of the filter media. See [[flow through media]],

*the exfiltration of water from the practice through an [[underdrainin]]. See [[flow through perforated pipe]],  

*the exfiltration of water from the practice through an [[underdrain]]. See [[flow through perforated pipe]],  

*one or more orifices,  

*one or more orifices,  

*weirs, or  

*weirs, or