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Detailed Design Basins, wetlands and ponds Detailed Design

1. Reasonably clean water, through use of
source control, should flow into site
control components at or near the surface
in a channel or swale.

2. Where a pipe entry is unavoidable it
should flow through a safe and visually
neutral headwall, such as a mitred
concrete headwall or stainless steel
gabion basket inlet.

Avoid using riprap as a form of erosion
This basin at Springhill Cohousing in Stroud can
control, as loose stones easily move around
be used throughout the year.
and cause a nuisance for maintenance teams.

Facing: An example of ‘safety be design’: these
children are doing a dance and movement class
in a SuDS storage area at Red Hill School.

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