VUA Detention

VUA Detentions are just now being recognized as a landscape design component in community landscape codes. This is perhaps the first storm water management facility finding its way into community codes for the purpose of managing urban on-site non-point pollutants. Since parking lots and associated vehicular use areas such as loading docks, paved display areas, service areas, drive through service areas, and auto storage yards typically collect many of the known pollutants it makes sense for communities to begin to require these facilities. Typically these facilities are designed near parking lots. They are designed with porous surfaces and planted edges. They are landscaped with ornamental plants to filter and infiltrate a percentage of rainfall directly into the ground. The landscape plants and the graded surface area there by capture sediments, solid waste, chemical compounds that might normally wash off of the site finding there way to a fresh water body.