The Baltimore Community ToolBank turned a difficult-to-use urban space into a stormwater BMP with an innovative stormwater planter/bioretention area. While the green space in front of the building appeared to be a perfect location for a bioretention area to treat roof runoff, buried railroad tracks and a lack of underdrain connection options required significant design modifications. The result was a half-in-ground, half-above ground stormwater planter with a “simple, scalable” design that can be replicated at other space-constrained sites.
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