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CIRIA SuDS Bitesize #2: Benefits of SuDS
04 Apr 2016 13:20     A+ | a-
CIRIA SuDS Bitesize - a series of short blogposts helping you to quickly digest some of the most important nuggets of information from the CIRIA SuDS Manual 2015.


We could spend a long time listing all the benefits that SuDS have on the built and natural environment but the CIRIA SuDS manual  narrows it down successfully to these key points;

        " Benefits of SuDS
 
  • protecting people and property from increased flood risk resulting from the development
  • protecting the quality of groundwater and surface waters from polluted runoff from the development
     
  • protecting natural flow regimes (and thus the morphology and associated ecology) in rivers, lakes and streams
     
  • supporting local natural habitats and associated ecosystems by encouraging greater biodiversity and linking habitats
     
  • improving soil moisture and replenishing depleted groundwater levels
     
  • providing society with a valuable supply of water
     
  • Creating attractive places where people want to live, work and play through the integration of water and green spaces with the built environment
     
  • improving people's understanding of how runoff from their development is being managed and used, and the benefits of more sustainable approaches
     
  • supporting the creation of developments that are more able to cope with changes in climate delivering cost-effective infrastructure that uses fewer natural resources and has a smaller whole-life carbon footprint than conventional drainage."

Image: Page 10 CIRIA SuDS Manual 2015




Next time; The benefits of managing surface water runoff!

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By Bill Blackledge CMLI
member of LI Technical Committee
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