Rain gardens: Gallery

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  Lake Wilcox Snap project that installed Rain garden features alogn with bioswales, rainwater harvesting barrels and Permeable pavement parking lots of residents. Read more about the retrofits, their performance and the overall project in the, Lake Wilcox SNAP Embracing Nature in the Community. Photo credit: CVC, 2016.

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  Parking lot bioretention sharing underground reservoir with adjacent permeable paving, Edwards Gardens, Toronto, ON.

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  Parking lot bioretention with decorative stone for erosion control, and perforated pipe access standpipe in foreground, Earth Rangers Centre, Vaughan, ON. Read about the performance of this practice in the technical report.

A lot level bioretention cell designed to receive and detain, infiltrate and filter runoff, typically used for discharge from downspouts.

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.