While this article highlights the first phase and the BPST has yet to be further developed, the underlying questions guiding plant selection were explored in detail. 2021, Bioretention systems for stormwater management: recent advances and future prospects. Biohabitats, a multidisciplinary consulting firm specializing in ecological restoration, conservation planning, and regenerative design, was hired to survey stormwater professionals, complete a review of research on plant functions in bioretention installations, and develop an outline of how stormwater practitioners could evolve planting design to improve facility performance.ĭiagram showing the interrelationship between plant and soil characteristics for bioretention. The effort was focused specifically on functions plants provide in bioretention and the vegetative attributes to optimize overall bioretention performance. In 2021, the Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange (the Exchange) awarded a Collaborative Grant to a multi-disciplinary team from Chicago, Maryland, Omaha, and Oregon to explore these questions further and complete a first phase towards building a Bioretention Plant Selection Tool (BPST). In January of 2020, The Field published an article on Performance-Based Plant Selection for Bioretention that sought an approach for planting design that prioritizes the functional attributes that plants provide in bioretention stormwater treatment facilities. image: reproduced with permission from Montgomery County, MD Department of Environmental Protection
By Jeremy Person, PLA, ASLA, with co-authors Ann English, PLA, ASLA, Ted Shriro, Andy Szatko, John Watson, and Jim Cooper, ASLA Lanark Way bioretention, Montgomery County, Maryland Department of Environmental Protection retrofit.
0 kommentar(er)
