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Gutters and downspouts installed onto buildings direct rainwater from roofs to rain gardens. Plants with deep root systems encourage stormwater infiltration and absorbs excess nutrient runoff.
Multiple Benefits of Rain Gardens
Conceptual diagram illustrating tabulated Best Management Practices (BMPs).
Best Management Practices (BMPs)
Filtration; pigment analyses
Filtration; pigment analyses
Filtration; total suspended solids analyses
Filtration; total suspended solids analyses
Conceptual diagram illustrating how the filtration capacity of a natural system is much larger.
Natural versus impervious water filtration
Conceptual diagram illustrating affective water filtration methods in a residential setting.
Residential water filtration
Conceptual diagram illustrating how Chesapeake Bay aquatic grasses, in general, have been declining over the last several decades due to poor water quality.
Chesapeake Bay aquatic grass distribution from…
Illustration of manifold filtration
Filtration: manifold
Illustration of no light absorption
Light: no light
Illustration of organic light absorption
Light: organic absorption
Illustration of deep light absorption in water
Light: water absorption deep
Illustration of shallow light absorption in water
Light: water absorption shallow
Illustration of light limitation
Limitation: light
Illustration of filtering sample
Filtering sample
Pervious surfaces, such as modular paver blocks, allow the soil to retain stormwater. Impervious surfaces prevent the infiltration of stormwater, increasing the volume and velocity of surface runoff.
Pervious Surfaces Used to Promote Stormwater…
Samples were collected for Total Suspended Solids by filtering water samples onto GF/F Whatman filter paper.
Total Suspended Solids
Samples were collected for Total Suspended Solids by filtering water samples onto GF/F Whatman filter paper.
Total Suspended Solids

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