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===Example 5: [https://sustainabletechnologies.ca/app/uploads/2020/09/CVC-Glendale-Rain-Garden-Case-Study.pdf Glendale Public School Rain Garden]===
 
===Example 5: [https://sustainabletechnologies.ca/app/uploads/2020/09/CVC-Glendale-Rain-Garden-Case-Study.pdf Glendale Public School Rain Garden]===
Glendale Public School in Brampton faced increased urbanization, limited stormwater controls, and on-site drainage issues that were harming aquatic health in nearby Fletchers Creek, particularly the endangered Redside Dace. To address these concerns, CVC designed a large-scale rain garden using a treatment-train approach, incorporating three swales, conveyance pipes, an underdrain system, and a flow-control valve.
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[[File:Screenshot 2025-11-14 140403.png|400px|thumb|right|Glendale Public School rain garden.]]
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Glendale Public School area in Brampton faced increased urbanization, limited stormwater controls, and on-site drainage issues that were harming aquatic health in nearby Fletchers Creek, particularly the endangered Redside Dace. To address these concerns, CVC designed a large-scale rain garden using a treatment-train approach, incorporating three swales, conveyance pipes, an underdrain system, and a flow-control valve.
    
'''Stormwater Management Criteria'''
 
'''Stormwater Management Criteria'''
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'''Stormwater Strategy'''
 
'''Stormwater Strategy'''
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# Swales direct surface runoff towards a rain garden.
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# The rain garden incorporated trees, shrubs and native plantings as well as native soil amendments and micro-topographic features to encourage adsorption, infiltration and support plant growth.
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# Drain pipes under the pathways allow the water level to equalize between garden cells
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# Perforated underdrain pipes, placed under the planted area, drained the facility
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# A flow control valve was installed at the underdrain outlet to control the amount of water draining into the municipal system located on. During normal operation, this valve
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is be closed to maximize storage and infiltration. Under extreme rainfall events the valve can be opened to release water.
    
==Data Analysis/Modelling==
 
==Data Analysis/Modelling==

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