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Rain Gardens to Help Prevent Floods

Rain Gardens to Help Prevent Floods

Upstream water attenuation is part of a range of solutions to flooding, even better if it can be combined with wildlife friendly gardening. In this first in a series of blog posts about Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) we look at the role of Rain Gardens in Flood Mitigation. The term “Rain Garden” has changed over the years. Technically it has always been just one aspect of the design of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) and referred to a type of soft landscaping that slows the …
2nd May 2018 Celtic Water