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gutters and downspouts collect precipitation. You get rid of it by diverting it away from your house by use of grassy depressions or swales, or through the use of drywells, perforated piping sunk in the ground, or gravel or sand to absorb the water.
Farmers make use of grasses, trees, wildlife plantings, or riparian buffers along their stream and pond edges to prevent their topsoil from being washed away. Building designers making use of flat roofs use primary and possibly secondary drainage pipes, with protective screens to catch debris. The secondary systems are used to handle any hurricane conditions. Precipitation is then carried away to other storm drainage systems.
Engineers concerned with roadways and parking lots, make use of curbing, gutters, inlets, pipelines, and swales to carry precipitation to pumping stations, sedimentation basins wetlands, or other detention oi retention systems such a ponds or basins with vegetation.
Does anyone oversee all of this runoff effort where developments such as at Clevenger’s Comer are concerned? Next time.
This is one in an occasional series on Clevenger’s Corner and its possible impact on Rappahannock County.
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