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  2. Sustainable drainage system - Wikipedia

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    Sustainable drainage system. Retention ponds such as this one in Dunfermline, Scotland, are considered components of a sustainable drainage system. Sustainable drainage systems (also known as SuDS, [1] SUDS, [2][3] or sustainable urban drainage systems[4]) are a collection of water management practices that aim to align modern drainage systems ...

  3. Daylighting (streams) - Wikipedia

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    Daylighting (streams) Appearance. The daylighted Saw Mill River in Getty Square, Yonkers, New York, had been covered by a parking lot. A short stretch of Lower Marin Creek in UC Village in Albany, California has been daylighted. Daylighting is the opening up and restoration of a previously buried watercourse, one which had at some point been ...

  4. Retention basin - Wikipedia

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    Retention basin. A retention basin, sometimes called a retention pond, wet detention basin, or storm water management pond (SWMP), is an artificial pond with vegetation around the perimeter and a permanent pool of water in its design. [1][2][3] It is used to manage stormwater runoff, for protection against flooding, for erosion control, and to ...

  5. Groundwater recharge - Wikipedia

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    Groundwater recharge or deep drainage or deep percolation is a hydrologic process, where water moves downward from surface water to groundwater. Recharge is the primary method through which water enters an aquifer. This process usually occurs in the vadose zone below plant roots and is often expressed as a flux to the water table surface.

  6. Drainage system (geomorphology) - Wikipedia

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    In geomorphology, drainage systems, also known as river systems, are the patterns formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin. They are governed by the topography of land, whether a particular region is dominated by hard or soft rocks, and the gradient of the land. Geomorphologists and hydrologists often view streams ...

  7. Stormwater detention vault - Wikipedia

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    A stormwater detention system during installation beneath a parking lot. A stormwater detention vault is an underground structure designed to manage excess stormwater runoff on a developed site, often in an urban setting. This type of best management practice may be selected when there is insufficient space on the site to infiltrate the runoff ...

  8. Endorheic basin - Wikipedia

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    The endorheic basin that feeds water into Üüreg Lake, Mongolia NASA photo of the endorheic Tarim Basin, China. An endorheic basin (/ ˌ ɛ n d oʊ ˈ r iː. ɪ k / EN-doh-REE-ik; also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other, external bodies of water (e.g. rivers and oceans); instead, the water drainage flows into ...

  9. Downspout - Wikipedia

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    A downspout, waterspout, [1] downpipe, drain spout, drainpipe, [2] roof drain pipe, [3] rone[4][5][6][7] or leader is a pipe for carrying rainwater from a rain gutter. The purpose of a downspout is to allow water from a gutter to reach the ground without dripping or splashing down the building structure. Downspouts are usually vertical and ...

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