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Certain stormwater controls are designed in ways that effectively divert water away from a site – but not cellular storage systems. Sometimes also called geocellular systems, geocellular attenuation tanks, or soakaway tanks, these Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS – aka LIDs/BMPs/WSUDs) capture stormwater in large underground containers for slow release. But why utilize a stormwater control…

Sometimes called permeable pavement, porous pavement is an innovative and environmentally friendly approach to managing stormwater runoff in urban areas. As cities have grown, the sheer number of impermeable surfaces like roads, parking lots, and sidewalks has only increased, leaving traditional drainage systems struggling to cope with the volume of runoff. It leads to increased…

Handling drainage from stormwater events often means integrating multiple SWCs (StormWater Controls) to effectively prevent catastrophic flooding. One of the ways drainage designers are adapting their work to be more sustainably minded is by implementing drainage system features known as SuDS (Sustainable Drainage Systems). These have different names across the world like LIDs/BMPs/WSUDs, but they…