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|caption= | |caption=Drains are important in linking rain gardens on the Evansdale campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. | ||
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|DrainAndTrees.jpg|A small rain garden that is part of a larger network of small gardens. Overflow not absorbed during heavy rains flows into the drain and into the next garden. | |DrainAndTrees.jpg|A small rain garden that is part of a larger network of small gardens. Overflow not absorbed during heavy rains flows into the drain and into the next garden. | ||
|ThreeDrains.jpg|Previously, these pipes would have been joined to carry runoff deep underground. The open design slows flow and the porous base absorbs some of the runoff. | |||
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|caption=Parts of a network of rain gardens on the Evansdale campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. | |||
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|PlantsInMatureRainGarden.png|A small rain garden with mature plantings between a large parking lot (not shown) and the shopping center below. | |PlantsInMatureRainGarden.png|A small rain garden with mature plantings between a large parking lot (not shown) and the shopping center below. | ||
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|caption=Chambers Park on the Evansdale campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, WW is a large [[bioretention pond]] with several [[rain garden]]s built in. | |||
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|ChambersParkBowl.jpg|Shown is part of the south edge of the Chambers Park bioretention pond with an incorporated [[rain garden]] center right. | |||
|ChambersParkWithTraffic.jpg|Before this bioretention pond was competed, the intersection to the upper left of the picture was routinely flooded during heavy rains. | |||
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Latest revision as of 16:14, 11 October 2020
Drains are important in linking rain gardens on the Evansdale campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parts of a network of rain gardens on the Evansdale campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chambers Park on the Evansdale campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, WW is a large bioretention pond with several rain gardens built in. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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