Chase Away the Rainwater Runoff Blues: Rain gardens & bioswales offer landscape pros opportunity to soak up new revenue

摘要

It's our cities' most dirty little secret that our stormwater is being routed directly into our sewer systems," explains Tom Barrett, owner of Green Water Infrastructure, an Indianapolis-based landscape consulting company that integrates water resources for sustainable site development. "It doesn't take an extremely hard rainfall to overwhelm our sewer system. Almost any rainfall over .25 inch overwhelms it." Barrett receives dozens of Raw Sewage Overflow Warnings issued by the city of Indianapolis every month.