Project Description
Designed to address lacking stormwater infrastructure and the pollution of Strawberry Creek during rain events, this project implements a stormwater infiltration basin on the north side of the A&E parking lot (directly east of Sather Gate) to reduce the volume of stormwater and pollutants entering Strawberry Creek. Throughout campus, impervious and semi-impervious surfaces such as sidewalks, parking lots, lawn fragments, and plazas accumulate harmful pollutants such as heavy metals, fertilizers, oil, gasoline, trash, and plastic particulates. During rain events, many of these pollutants get swept up by water moving in sheet flow over impervious surfaces. Most existing stormwater infrastructure directs the water and pollutants directly into Strawberry Creek, degrading the health of the aquatic ecosystem and contributing to streambank erosion. This project employs the use of a slot drain system to divert that polluted stormwater into a constructed biophysical treatment system to reduce, detain, filter, and slowly re-release filtered stormwater into Strawberry Creek.
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