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  2. Infiltration basin - Wikipedia

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    Recently completed infiltration basin for stormwater collection. An infiltration basin (or recharge basin) is a form of engineered sump [1] or percolation pond [2] that is used to manage stormwater runoff, prevent flooding and downstream erosion, and improve water quality in an adjacent river, stream, lake or bay.

  3. Retention basin - Wikipedia

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    Storm water is typically channeled to a retention basin through a system of street and/or parking lot storm drains, and a network of drain channels or underground pipes.. The basins are designed to allow relatively large flows of water to enter, but discharges to receiving waters are limited by outlet structures that function only during very large storm eve

  4. Soil Conservation Services Hickory Creek Basin Retarding Pond 16

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    This plan proposed seventeen hydraulic structures that would prevent such massive flooding events, protecting homes and businesses. Only nine were completed, two in Denton: #16 (aka Little Lake) and #17a. North Lakes Park encompasses both man-made, retention / detention ponds within a 351-acre (1.42 km 2) plot of land. The official entrance to ...

  5. Mississippi River Flooding: Man Builds Moat to Save Home - AOL

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    When you can't have your own private island, you can always create your own. Russell, as the video below identifies him, has put more than a good amount of effort into saving his house from the ...

  6. Detention basin - Wikipedia

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    Dry pond on brook to reducing floods, near Děčín, Czech Republic. A detention basin or retarding basin is an excavated area installed on, or adjacent to, tributaries of rivers, streams, lakes or bays to protect against flooding and, in some cases, downstream erosion by storing water for a limited period of time.

  7. Check out a rushing river, scenic pond and a Troll Cave at ...

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    The path reached the edge of a grassy 150-yard-long earthen dam built to hold back the water in the man-made reservoir. An earthen dike holds back water to create Spencer Pond at the Spencer ...

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