New project in Ingersoll looks to reduce the rate and amount of water run off on a property.
INGERSOLL - Rain gardens and bioswales are being installed in Ingersoll to help manage stormwater.
Developer Warren Sinclair Homes is working with the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority to help alter the drainage pattern of the site and cause water to flow at a controlled rate.
Coordinator of Community and Corporate Services for the UTRCA, Teresa Hollingsworth says Low Impact Development is an innovation approach to managing stormwater.
"Really it's best management practices. These are small, little activities people can do on their own properties that actually keep stormwater -- so anything that's rain water or snow melting -- actually on their own property and have it infiltrate into the ground instead of going straight out into their stormsewers."
Hollingsworth says the rain gardens will act as a sink.
"They are collecting that water. They hold on to it. They let it peculate through the ground. The more it peculates through the ground, you're cleaning that water. Every time it goes through another rain garden along this site, and a chain of rain gardens, we're getting a lot of that sediment and any of those nutrients out of the water before it reaches the river. That ends up giving us a nice, much cleaner river and we actually then can use the nutrients in the plants."
She says the rain gardens will also help prevent flooding on the roads.
"When we have those big pulses from big storms, what we are trying to do is hold it and slow the melt. Slow the run off so that it slowly gets to the river instead of causing big erosion problems and big flooding problems."
This technique can be seen along 175 Ingersoll Street North at the Warren Sinclair Homes Development.
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