Rain Garden Research at EPA's Urban Watershed Research Facility

Courtesy Recent Science Inventory records from the EPA  Thu, 11/12/2009 - 15:59

I have been invited to give a presentation at the 2009 National Erosion Conference in Hartford, CT, on October 27-29, 2009.

My presentation discusses the research on sizing of rain gardens that is being conducted using the large, parking lot rain gardens on-site.

I discuss the construction of the gardens this past summer, including the installation of sensors and monitoring devices that will allow us to compare hydrologic performance in bioretention cells of different sizes which are receiving approximately equivalent...

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