Bioretention cells: Gallery

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  Parking lot bioretention with inspection well in foreground, Kortright centre, Vaughan

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  Parking lot bioretention sharing underground reservoir with adjacent permeable paving, Edwards gardens, Toronto

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  Parking lot bioretention with decorative stone for erosion control, and inspection well in foreground, Earth rangers, Vaughan

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  The sunken curb holds the edge of the asphalt pavement and lets water freely flow to the bioretention cell beside the 7sigma parking lot in Minneapolis, MN (USA)
  Photo credit:BrianAsh

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  Bioretention cells on Elm Drive, Mississauga, are lower then the adjacent road to accommodate a catch basin inlet between the paved surface and the cells.

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  The grade and lack of curb allow for sheet-flow runoff into this bioretention facility. Lakeside Park, Mississauga, ON

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  Bioretention bump out feature in a dense urban setting. Includes Curb cuts on the walkway side of the installation, with overflow and Level spreaders at the far end of the bioretention cell.

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  Bioretention feature designed into a small parkette in downtown Toronto, ON. Fairford Park. Read more about it here.

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  Bioretention cell located at Ajax, ON. Waterfront Park.

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  Bioretnetion cell located at IMAX's corporate headquarters in Mississauga, ON.

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  A traffic calming bioretention cell in action during a major rain event with high velocity flows entering the feature.

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  A lot-level smaller bioretention cell located on a homeowner's property. A nearby storm sewer catch basin is located if/when the feature experiences an overflow during a major rain event. Read more about this feature located in the Whychwood neighbourhood of Brampton, ON. and others like it in the following report by [[https://sustainabletechnologies.ca/app/uploads/2020/06/Wychwood-Report.pdf

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  Another image of parkign lto bioretention feature in action during a rain event, located at the Kortright centre, Vaughan, ON.

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  Bioretention cell along Elm Dr. in Mississauga ON. with sloped grass filter strips towards the feature that provide some pretreatment of road runoff before entering the system.

A shallow excavated surface depression containing prepared filter media, mulch, and planted with selected vegetation.

An alternative practice to traditional impervious pavement, prevents the generation of runoff by allowing precipitation falling on the surface to infiltrate through the surface course into an underlying stone reservoir and, where suitable conditions exist, into the native soil.

Includes the protection of soil from dislocation by water, wind or other agents.

A mixture of mineral aggregates bound with bituminous materials, used in the construction and maintenance of paved surfaces.

Ground depression acting as a flow control and water treatment structure, that is normally dry.

The portion of water precipitated onto a catchment area, which then flows as surface discharge from the catchment area past a specified point.

Water from rain, snow melt, or irrigation that flows over the land surface.

A shallow excavated surface depression containing prepared filter media, mulch, and planted with selected vegetation.