Virtually all commercial, multi-family and residential developments constructed in this area are subject to storm water detention requirements, typically as high as .65 Acre Feet of storage for every Acre developed. This requirement is intended to alleviate the flooding that comes with turning previously naturally vegetated ground into impervious concrete, asphalt and buildings. The common response has been to set aside a portion of the developed site for installation of a surface storage pond. But in doing so, this valuable land is lost forever — forever generating potential tort liability, tax and maintenance bills and retuning nothing for the investment. [More Info]
Developers who do not look carefully at the Return on Investment (ROI) associated with putting the required storm water detention beneath the parking lots in the project risk leaving vast sums of money on the table. It's a simple process to detain water in underground detention systems, paying the water into the public system on a delayed basis, just as with a surface pond (or even better, holding and recycling it to irrigate the landscape). [More Info]
Putting them detention beneath parking lots is a safe and proven proposition. Underground detention systems have historically been saddled with limits based on the technologies involved in their design. They've required large footprints, been difficult to design around and been very costly. [More Info]
We've changed the equation for local developers. In 2005 we introduced to Texas a low-cost, modular underground detention system with a 10-year history of installations on both US coasts, and throughout the world. These low-cost systems can store any volume of water, require the smallest possible footprint, provide the highest storage efficiency and offer previously unheard of design flexibility. These systems bring advantages to virtually any project. [More Info]
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