Climate Change Ecoscape Drainage
Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) offers a nature-based, landscape solution to managing stormwater runoff drainage and water quality issues that urban stormwater runoff causes and provides greater benefits than conventional (or “Gray”) stormwater solutions.
In ways that mimic the natural environment as much as possible, BGI uses plants, soil, and stone to filter and manage stormwater more effectively, reducing how much enters our sewer systems, and protecting our rivers and streams.
Blue-Green Infrastructure uses landscaping to conceal the pragmatic drainage needs of commercial or municipal areas. It is vital for building city and landscape resilience in the face of climate threats.
Essentially speaking, Blue-Green Infrastructure, or Green Infrastructure, refers to a drainage network that provides for solving urban and property challenges by building with nature and promotes integrating permeable surfaces.
Nature-Based Infrastructure
Blue-Green infrastructure is essentially creating healthier environments one property at a time through nature-based infrastructure that delivers a sustainable return on investment. Nature-based infrastructure asks more of your landscape.
Blue-Green infrastructure isn’t new, but the phrase is not one that often enters a conversation about commercial landscape maintenance. Most importantly, for commercial properties, it can contribute to a greener community.
I believe this is changing as more people recognize how nature can actually be harnessed to provide “services” for communities—like flood prevention, reducing urban heat effect, improving air and water quality, and elevating the overall wellbeing of humans.
When nature is harnessed by properties and used as an infrastructural system to manage drainage, often incorporating waterscapes, it is now called “ecoscaping”.
Underground Stormwater Detention
To combat Climate Change and excess stormwater flows and protect our environment, many local regulators require a stormwater detention system to be implemented.
A Blue-Green Infrastructure can incorporate a hidden stormwater detention storage tank under the aboveground, nature-based landscaping seen above.
An underground stormwater storage system reduces and treats stormwater at its source while also providing multiple community benefits such as reducing localized flooding, providing fire protection water, and improving community aesthetics by increasing property values with aboveground landscaping.
FLOW offers nature-based stormwater solutions for properties that support “Blue-Green Infrastructure” initiatives, native-based “ecoscaping” and high-volume drainage solutions.