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Low Impact Development What is Low Impact LID is a design strategy that aims to minimize the impact of development on the local watershed. It works by maintaining and replicating the natural hydrologic patterns that the landscape had prior to development.
Conventional approaches to design and development typically create large areas that are impervious to stormwater. As development occurs, buildings, parking lots, and streets replace or cover the natural soils and vegetation and allow water to run over them at an increased rate. Conventional approaches to stormwater management typically collect the storm water runoff and convey it to a stormwater facility, usually a pond. LID practices use several integrated design techniques to mimic the natural hydrology of a particular landscape.
These solutions can be integrated into the infrastructure of a development and have the added bonus of being more cost effective and aesthetically pleasing than traditional, storm water conveyance systems. Typical Components of a LID Design
LID for Home Owners
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