Hi Francine

In quick response to your email, I am a Stormwater Engineer with the local
Council here in North Shore City, New Zealand.

We are requiring 'at-source' stormwater management for many sites/ new
developments in our City. The purpose is to manage adverse effects resulting
from the extensive pavements being created and associated runoff from (the
often monster-like!!!) homes.

Many people these days seem to be unaware of their environmental effects. That
denial is a problem and continues to be.

Anyway, in many places, we require that each house has utilises rainwater
harvesting of its roof area, minimum size tank generally about 4500 litres
(1000 gallons) and plumb the tank into laundry, outside taps and toilets for
use there. In addition we require that raingardens be specifically be formed
within the private lots to handle some of the runoff from pavements, vehicular
areas. Size of raingarden about 25m2 minimum.

Regards

Peter Nagels.


Quoting Seamus Rogers <rainrunoff@...>:

> Good morning, I am new to this discussion group and I am hoping to
> learn a lot here. My name is Francine Rogers and I am a graduate
> student at the Harvard University Extension School currently working
> to complete my research thesis. My research topic is on the control
> of storm water from urban properties. More specifically I want to
> examine if installation of environmental methods on urban properties
> is effective to reduce the volume of storm water leaving these
> properties and entering local waterways. And how can the use of
> these environmental methods be emphasized over the traditional
> concrete drainage systems? The data collection method being
> employing is an on-line survey powered by Zoomerang™ of people that
> are knowledgeable of storm water control methods and potentially
> urban development projects. This survey will gather information on
> factors that influence the choices of storm water control methods,
> the methods that people are currently employing and why.
>
> I am writing to you through the stormwaterpro discussion group to ask
> for your assistance. Your knowledge and personal experience in the
> area of storm water management will be of great value to this
> project. While there are some questions that pertain more to people
> involved in implementing storm water programs, everyoneÂ’s feedback
> in important. Feedback from people not constructing storm water
> projects but involved as consults and regulators will give the
> results more depth. To that end, I am requesting your participation
> in this on-line survey. I believe you will find the results to be of
> interest.
>
> A website has been developed as a gateway to the on-line survey and
> can be accessed at www.stormwatersurvey.com. This website provides
> additional information pertaining to the study and will contain the
> tabulated results at the conclusion of the study. All feedback
> responses are completely voluntary and anonymous and should only take
> about 15 minutes to complete. It is an opportunity to express
> his/her own opinion on storm water control methods. Participants and
> others can benefit from knowing how other professionals, in the
> aggregate, are addressing the issue of storm water control and may
> help to benchmark practices.
>
> Thank you for your time and attention to this request. If you know
> of anyone else that would be interested in participating, please feel
> free to forward the website information. Please contact me at
> frogers@... with any comments or questions.
> Thank you,
> Francine Rogers
> P.O. Box 63068
> Memphis, TN 38163
> frogers@...
>
>
>
>
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