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2. How and When to Winterize Your Rain Barrel (It Depends on ...

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   Opening your rain barrel spigot just enough to release a gentle drip of water can keep rain barrels from freezing on a cold night. Just remember to close the spigot in the morning. Install a ...

3. Collect Water for a Non-Rainy Day With One of These Editor ...

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   In areas with heavy rainfall or large catchment surfaces, a 50-gallon rain barrel could fill quickly during a significant rain event, potentially within a few hours. It may take longer to fill in ...

4. Rainwater tank - Wikipedia

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   A rainwater tank (sometimes called a rain barrel in North America in reference to smaller tanks, or a water butt in the UK) is a water tank used to collect and store rain water runoff, typically from rooftops via pipes. Rainwater tanks are devices for collecting and maintaining harvested rain.

5. Rain gardens can help the environment - AOL

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   Rain Gardens help the environment. They decrease flooding. They decrease the number of pollutants from roofs, roads, sump pumps, sidewalks, etc. that wash into storm drains and from there into ...

6. Rainwater harvesting - Wikipedia

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   configuration of domestic rainwater harvesting system in Uganda. [1]Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is the collection and storage of rain, rather than allowing it to run off.. Rainwater is collected from a roof-like surface and redirected to a tank, cistern, deep pit (well, shaft, or borehole), aquifer, or a reservoir with percolation, so that it seeps down and restores the ground w

7. Bioretention - Wikipedia

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   A bioretention cell, also called a rain garden, in the United States. It is designed to treat polluted stormwater runoff from an adjacent parking lot. Plants are in winter dormancy. Bioretention is the process in which contaminants and sedimentation are removed from stormwater runoff. The main objective of the bioretention cell is to attenuate ...

8. There are 61 types of mosquitoes in SC during summer ... - AOL

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   Clean out rain gutters and lawn drains to ensure water does not collect. Seal rain barrels to prevent mosquitoes from entering and laying eggs. Empty bird baths and small fountains and scrub them ...

9. Storm Water Management Model - Wikipedia

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   The low-impact development (LID) function was new to SWMM 5.0.019/20/21/22 and SWMM 5.1+ It is integrated within the subcatchment and allows further refinement of the overflows, infiltration flow and evaporation in rain barrel, swales, permeable paving, green roof, rain garden, bioretention and infiltration trench.