001-192 70 70 2/5/093/2/09 1:46:001:24:49 PM Job:01233 Title: The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture (AVA) 2nd1st ProofProof Page:70ge:70 Water Pollution Control Laboratory, work with water, created the Water Portland, Oregon, USA Pollution Control Laboratory for the The city of Portland, Oregon, has been City of Portland as an experimental at the forefront of using sustainable installation in treating large volumes drainage in a great variety of of storm water. The laboratory is a applications and types of area. landscape that is both useful and Murase Associates, a landscape functional. Instead of being hidden architecture firm renowned for away in a sewer, the water is made its imaginative and progressive part of a visible celebration. SUSTAINABLE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS 71 Sustainable drainage refers to the safe and impermeable areas required by modern life – effective management of rainwater and surface parking for cars, roads and rooftops, to name water, collectively known as storm water. This a few. Water runs off quickly from these areas, is known in the UK and Europe as Sustainable creating big problems downstream, which are Drainage Systems (SuDS) and in the USA as Best magnified if there are only more hard paved areas Management Practice (BMP). along the way. It’s a domino effect. While ‘drainage’ might sound like an unpleasant Sustainable drainage uses a variety of activity, it is actually a process that requires techniques, such as green roofs and various understanding of many related natural systems, types of planted areas, to hold water and to slow which is exciting not just for the beautiful and it down in times of heavy rain or run-off. Plants useful landscapes that can result, but for the have the added benefit of cleaning pollution promise it has to improve the environment for out of storm water along the way. Sustainable people and animals. drainage systems
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