The surface area of your rain garden will depend on the rain garden’s depth, the size of the area from which you are capturing runoff, and your soil type. Typically, rain gardens are roughly 10-20% ...

During the rain event, that collected runoff pools to a design depth in the basin. Eventually, the water seeps down into the first soil layer that is made of mulch to provide organic materials to the ...

The calculator has two primary functions: The first is that It will size a rain garden for you that treats 1" of rainfall. This rainfall depth is often recommended for sizing GI structures because it ...

Research was conducted in 2019 as a continuation of the 2018 project, which was an in-depth survey of rain gardens in the Denver and Boulder Front Range of Colorado. Eleven locations were analyzed ...

When conducting the infiltration test it was found that the garden drains in 24 hours. The rain garden has an 8” depth center that drains out the back in a diffuse manner as water drains to the nearby ...