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["Mathew Waehner" <waehner@gmail.com>]

I wouldn't assume that civil engineers are unaware of constructed wetlands.
My wife is studying landscape architecture, and at the conferences she has
attended infiltration and biological filtration are very much hot topics.
She did mention that the state and federal highway departments are the most
resistant to change.

Incidentally, the person in charge of drainage on the project you are
interested in may be a landscape architect- they design drainage for most
construction projects.  This person could work for or be contracted with a
civil engineering firm.

You could start by researching the code requirements for stormwater handling
in your area.    Keep in mind that the code will be written more with the
intention of limiting damage from a 100 year flood than creating
economically intangible benefit from all the other rain events.








On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:39 AM, oliver smith callis <
oliversmithcallis@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm wondering if any of you have resources or know of good ones to
> introduce/ educate a civil engineer with swale and constructed wetland
> design. If you know of any info or data on the total suspended solids
> reduction through these methods, that would be particularly helpful, as we
> need to design for improved parking lot runoff water quality as well as
> reduced quantity. The project is in northern Utah/ Wasatch Front, in the
> U.S., so semi-arid savannah/humid-temperate highland edge.
>
> If any of you also know of any good generic swale details/ cross sectional
> graphics, that would be really helpful too.
>
> --
> Oliver Smith Callis
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