Comments on: Low Impact Developments (LID) are Green

By: Underground Storm Water Detention | Home Construction Improvement

Underground Storm Water Detention | Home Construction Improvement — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:35:50 +0000

[...] ponds only hold water after rain events and remain dry for a majority of the year. More recently Low Impact Developements (LID) have become popular which require additional on-site detention on large development [...]

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:48:00 +0000

We do use LID’s in both of our current sub-divisions. In fact, the sub-division where we built our new home was the first in the State of NH to successfully implement them. We notice a huge difference. This method doesn’t completely eliminate conventional detention, but it does significantly reduce the size and scope.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:54:00 +0000

Great post! I’ve seen detention ponds all over and they are never an attractive feature. Does your company use any of these LID’s?

By: Marissa

Marissa — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:42:00 +0000

I wish that more attention had been paid to landscape/water management as the different subdivisions in our town were developed. A lot of our residents deal with stormwater issues on a very regular basis because developer after developer did “just enough” to pass legal muster without considering the overall impact of the development on the surrounding areas and the town overall. It’s a small town–it didn’t take long for water management to become a problem! My mom works for the town doing water billing (and handling the customer calls when water issues arise)– I often hear about the problems we’ve got, so I find discussions of how developers and communities can fix and avoid those problems VERY interesting and useful. Kudos on a good post (and on an underdiscussed topic!).