Tennessee Gets Innovative Stormwater System
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Government
Rainwater Resources, a Specialist inRainwater Harvestingfor Irrigation and Potable Uses, Has Announced the Transfer of a 1,500-gallon Cistern to a Former Maintenance Site in the City of Farragut, Tenn
The new system is expected to supply 15,000 gallons of water per year to the region.
The site has been landscaped and converted into a park-like outdoor classroom to demonstrate various methods of protecting localwatersheds. Among those techniques is capturing rainwater from the classroom shelter rooftop and conveying it to storage for irrigating the park's extensive premises.
The design of the collection system operates on rainwater gravity flows into rooftop guttering and through a Wisy vortex pre-filter that diverts the first flush of dirty runoff, as required by current Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. When this flush is accomplished, the filter releases the remainder of each rain incident into the above groundpolyethylene tank.
Accordingly, a custom-made control display for public education, mounted near the tank, monitors performance, operates a submersible pump in the cistern and activates ultraviolet (UV) light purification. Key to maintaining clear water without chemical treatment is Rainwater Resources' ingress and egress flow design, which protects a natural biofilm inside the cistern. This biofilm, a naturally-occurring phenomena, guarantees clear, odor-free water.
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