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Trounce Pond, a retention basin landscaped with natural grassland plants, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada The Corporate Park retention basin in Stafford, Texas, United States A Retention pond guarded by concrete wall and surrounded by Taro plants in an Semi-urban indian Town Retention basin in Pinnau, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Dry pond on brook to reduce floods, near Děčín, Czech Republic. A detention basin or retarding basin is an excavated area installed on, or adjacent to, tributaries of rivers, streams, lakes or bays to protect against flooding and, in some cases, downstream erosion by storing water for a limited period of time.
A small agricultural retention pond in Swarzynice, Poland. In agriculture practices, treatment ponds can be created to reduce nutrient runoff from reaching local streams or groundwater storages. Pollutants that enter ponds can often be mitigated by natural sedimentation and other biological and chemical activities within the water.
The problem began in 2023 when a flood revealed that the land beneath four homes in the neighborhood — including Sturgon's — was originally a retention pond designed to protect the community ...
Melvin's son, Alex, Rural King's current owner and chairman, owns a vacant lot at the Fly-In. ... Plans include new storm water retention ponds to reduce the potential for flooding.
The first rain gardens were created to mimic the natural water retention areas that developed before urbanization occurred. The rain gardens for residential use were developed in 1990 in Prince George's County, Maryland, when Dick Brinker, a developer building a new housing subdivision had the idea to replace the traditional best management practices (BMP) pond with a bioretention area.
There are retention basins, sediment ponds and diversion ditches on many mines that are meant to help with runoff issues, though those could fail in a severe enough event, Barton said.
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