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Creekside Crossing is a communal centre in a heavily urbanized area of Mississauga. Due to extensive development in the area, several Low Impact Development (LID) practices were constructed on site. All combined, the LIDs were able to fulfill the requirement of the TTRCA's water balance objective of retaining runoff from a 10 mm rain event onsite (usually set at 5 mm, but due to the rehabilitation work was completed in a floodplain this objective was increased twofold. The LIDs, which include [[Bioretention]] areas, [[Soakaways]]/Infiltration galleries, [[Vegetated filter strips]] and [[Permeable pavement]], achieve the water balance objective through attenuation/infiltration and evapotranspiration. To read more about this site and the performance of the LIDs mentioned, click on the button above.
Creekside Crossing is a communal centre in a heavily urbanized area of Mississauga. Due to extensive development in the area, several Low Impact Development (LID) practices were constructed on site. All combined, the LIDs were able to fulfill the requirement of the TTRCA's water balance objective of retaining runoff from a 10 mm rain event onsite (usually set at 5 mm, but due to the rehabilitation work was completed in a floodplain this objective was increased twofold. The LIDs, which include [[Bioretention]] areas, [[Soakaways]]/Infiltration galleries, [[Vegetated filter strips]] and [[Permeable pavement]], achieve the water balance objective through attenuation/infiltration and evapotranspiration. To read more about this site and the performance of the LIDs mentioned, click on the button above.
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The University of Toronto (Scarborough Campus) - UTSC, has been growing steadily over the past decades from 2011 - 2015 alone, campus growth has resulted in nearly 60,000 m2
of new buildings. To minimize the impact on the environment and managing increased stormwater runoff were important considerations that the university wanted to address. As a result, the East Arrival Court (EAC) retrofit, which captures stormwater in the [[Bioretention]] area of the parking lot and in the nearby [[Dry pond]], which provides temporary storage, and greater opportunities for infiltration and evapotranspiration were installed to help to improve the quality and reduce the volume of runoff discharging to the nearby Rouge River. To read more about this project click the button above.
{{Clickable button|[[File:Lakeview neighbourhood.PNG|130 px|link=https://cvc.ca/wp-content/uploads//2021/07/CaseStudy_Lakeview_Final.pdf]]}}
The Lakeview district is a residential neighbourhood within the City of Mississauga. CVC led the retrofit of this neighbourhood by removing existing ditch and culvert systems and replacing them with boulevard
[[Bioretention]] and [[Permeable pavement]] practices within the municipal road right of way (ROW). Permeable pavement was incorporated at the end of resident’s driveways and bioretention units were situated along frontages in the boulevard. To read more about the Lakeview project being a fully functional LID demonstration showcase site that can be used as a model for future ROW retrofit projects, click the button above.
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The PORTICO Community Church site, located in Mississauga, ON. was one of the first site to develop an LID parking lot in the province, in accordance with [https://sustainabletechnologies.ca/app/uploads/2013/01/LID-SWM-Guide-v1.0_2010_1_no-appendices.pdf|CVC/TRCA LID Stormwater Guidelines]. The 2 hectare parking lot at Portico Community Church features [[Permeable pavers]], [[Bioretention]] and two [[Bioswales]]. These LID features help to treat and reduce runoff flowing into the Credit River. Read more about this site and how the church , CVC and volunteers worked together to set up an ongoing maintenance schedule for the LID installations mentioned by clicking the button above.
Read more about [[Bioretention]] here.
Read more about [[Bioretention]] here.