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• Filter strips: Performance
  Vegetated filter strips are primarily a practice used to achieve water quality improvements althoug |+ Ability of vegetated filter strips to meet SWM objectives
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• Vegetated filter strips
  [[File:Vegetated_filter_strip_1.jpg|thumb|500px|Grass filter strip draining to vegetated swale. Source: Trinkhaus Engineering]] ...s may be comprised of a variety of [[trees]], [[Shrubs: List|shrubs]], and vegetation to add aesthetic value as well as [[water quality]] benefits.
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• Vegetated Filter Strip: Life Cycle Costs
  [[File:Bioretention cell rain garden US winter.jpg|thumb|600px|Filter strips between the [[bioretention]] facility and the adjacent parking lot, used to ...inter months. STEP has prepared a life cycle cost estimate for a vegetated filter strip based on a 2,000 m² road drainage area, runoff control tar
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• Enhanced swales: Maintenance
  ...egetated filter strips and typically involve a low level of activity after vegetation becomes established. Grass channel maintenance procedures are already in pl ...establishes, and then every 6 months annually going forward. Replace dead vegetation, remove invasive growth, dethatch, remove thatching and aerate (PDEP, 2006)
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• Absorbent landscapes
  ...roving topsoil to improve the water retention capacity and promote healthy vegetation. I can be found [https://sustainabletechnologies.ca/home/healthy-soils/cons *[[Vegetated filter strips]]
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• Berms
  ...l pools and [[constructed wetlands]], or on slopes with [[vegetated filter strips]]. ...lidation and subsidence, and also that the wetland can gradually fill with vegetation and with sediments which increase flow resistance and decrease freeboard du
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• Phosphorus testing in media
  ...including: [[bioretention]], [[enhanced grass swales]], [[vegetated filter strips]], [[absorbent landscapes]], [[green roofs]] and, bulk materials including: ...e., dominance by weeds) are also detected through visual inspection. Where vegetation cover is poor, unhealthy or dominated by weeds and soil P is lower than the
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• Inspection and Maintenance: Vegetated Filter Strips
  ...s. https://sustainabletechnologies.ca/app/uploads/2013/01/Vegetated-Filter-Strips.pdf</ref>)]] ...device]] (e.g., pea gravel diaphragm) is essential. Using vegetated filter strips as [[pretreatment]] practices to other best management practices is highly
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• Wildlife
  Canada Geese and Cackling Geese can cause damage by eating vegetation, and mess by leaving droppings. In some urban settings they can pose a furt ...d landing: Geese require open space which can be broken up with fencing or vegetation barriers such as hedges,
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• Swales
  ...slope which conveys water and generally contains various water tolerant [[vegetation]],<br> |Soil||Filter media required||Amendment preferable when possible
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• Construction
  ...otecting soils and media from compaction and clogging, properly installing filter media and aggregate, and ensuring facilities are kept off-line until the en ...]], [[Inspection and Maintenance: Vegetated Filter Strips|vegetated filter strips]], [[Inspection and Maintenance: Underground Infiltration Systems|undergrou
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• Inspection and Maintenance: Bioretention & Bioswales
  *[[Filter media|Filter bed surface]] ...Bioretention cell]]''': A flat-bottomed, depressed planting bed containing filter media soil, a gravel water storage layer and optional sub-drain pipe(s); Al
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• Phosphorus
  ...retention]], [[enhanced swales|enhanced grass swales]], [[vegetated filter strips]], [[absorbent landscapes]], and [[green roofs]]. The methods used for phos ...ural and horticultural industries. The level of phosphorus saturation in a filter or growing media can also be evaluated as Phosphorus Saturation Index (PSI)
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• Inspection and Maintenance: Enhanced Swales
  ...[[erosion]] resistant [[vegetation]] and [[stone]]. They do not feature [[filter media]] soil and [[underdrains|sub-drains]] like [[bioretention]] or [[bios ...trapezoidal-sized bottom, swale that contains grassed sloping sides and a filter media bottom to both convey overland flow and provide water treatment, and
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• Key Design and Plan Review Considerations
  ...pipes and orifices. Common pretreatment devices include [[vegetated filter strips]], [[Enhanced swales|grass swales]], [[geotextile]]-lined inlet filters/lin ...quipment. For example, easily accessible pretreatment features like filter strips or forebays that can be maintained manually with typical landscaping equipm
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• Planting design
  ...day and changes throughout the seasons. Flowers, fruit, leaves or bark of vegetation contribute to colour variation; in response, the designer should understand ...n applying this element to the design. Using both coniferous and deciduous vegetation helps create visual appeal throughout the seasons. [[File: Rain garden wit
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• Enhanced swales
  ...would enter the swale through sheet flow or curb cuts and flow across the filter strip on the left side of the image.<span style="color:red">''A note: The f ...ditch designs. Bioretention swales (i.e.bioswales, dry swales) incorporate filter media and possibly a perforated pipe underdrain to ensure they drain within
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• Terminology
  ...n runoff as it passes through the mulch layer, engineered filter media and vegetation root zone. ...ression containing prepared filter media, mulch, and planted with selected vegetation.
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• Inspection and Maintenance: Permeable Pavement
  |rowspan="3"|'''[[Aggregates|Filter Bed]]''' |rowspan="4"|'''[[Vegetation]]'''
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• Plant lists
  Vegetation is a big opportunity to maximize the co-benefits of biodiversity and amenit ...to aid in reducing the velocity of water entering the practice and to help filter out pollutants.
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