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Job:01233 Title: The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture (AVA)
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Water Pollution Control Laboratory, work with water, created the Water
Portland, Oregon, USA Pollution Control Laboratory for the
The city of Portland, Oregon, has been City of Portland as an experimental
at the forefront of using sustainable installation in treating large volumes
drainage in a great variety of of storm water. The laboratory is a
applications and types of area. landscape that is both useful and
Murase Associates, a landscape functional. Instead of being hidden
architecture firm renowned for away in a sewer, the water is made
its imaginative and progressive part of a visible celebration.
SUSTAINABLE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS 71
Sustainable drainage refers to the safe and impermeable areas required by modern life –
effective management of rainwater and surface parking for cars, roads and rooftops, to name
water, collectively known as storm water. This a few. Water runs off quickly from these areas,
is known in the UK and Europe as Sustainable creating big problems downstream, which are
Drainage Systems (SuDS) and in the USA as Best magnified if there are only more hard paved areas
Management Practice (BMP). along the way. It’s a domino effect.
While ‘drainage’ might sound like an unpleasant Sustainable drainage uses a variety of
activity, it is actually a process that requires techniques, such as green roofs and various
understanding of many related natural systems, types of planted areas, to hold water and to slow
which is exciting not just for the beautiful and it down in times of heavy rain or run-off. Plants
useful landscapes that can result, but for the have the added benefit of cleaning pollution
promise it has to improve the environment for out of storm water along the way. Sustainable
people and animals. drainage systems