Social enterprise Bí Urban is aiming to install 100 rain garden planters in the north inner city following the success of a pilot project in Stoneybatter last year.The diversion reduces the overflow into storm drains that can lead to flooding and the pollution of watercourses.
"It also provides habitat for urban pollinators and wildlife. So we are creating little pockets of biodiversity and little eco systems in usually grey, sterile areas."The rain garden project also involves scientists at University College Dublin who are examining data from measuring the water inflow and outflow of planters.
"What we're looking at doing is trying to quantify some of those benefits by integrating sensors into the planter. And in doing so that will allow us to measure the flow in and out of the planter and be able to understand what that impact is on the volume and the flow rate reduction into the drainage network.
cool. big neighborhood cisterns with basic sand/gravel filters might be another option. people could wash their cars, use it to water landscaping or even just as a controlled slow release back into the local ecosystem instead of going down the drain to the water treatment plant.
What a gorgeous news story.
Don't they tax it in Germany now?
Oh my god the townies are discovering how drainage works
kv_ofarrell Tell opwireland : scientific breakthrough - roots hold water! Trees manage floods!
Try updating the waste water system. No works on the system for 60 years. Try dredging the rivers now and again
I hate to be negative on good intentions but this a lot of wasted and polluting resources, timber, plastics, paints that wont hold much rainwater. Perhaps gutters feeding a toilet flush tank or water treatment wetlands. Planters would make sense done bigger in new developments
Every garden in Dublin was either built on concreted or tarmacadam In the last 20 years No soakaway all water going to drainage system that can't cope
An excellent project which has the potential to address a variety of issues. Looking forward to hearing the results of the study.
The corpo shouldn't have built on so many green fields around the city. In my area alone three football pitches are now housing estates.I'm sure that true for all areas.Well done to the city planners. To absorb the rain and avoid flooding the corpo could clear the drains sometime
Rainfall goes up and down....
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