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Originally Posted by SHOFEAR
First, it is likely a SWMF for the neighborhood. During a storm event the water level will likely rise somewhere around 2m. It would be somewhat challenging to design a urban landscape around it with hard surfaces that would accommodate such a rapidly fluctuating water level.
It very likely a component of the environmental focus of the neighborhood too. All of the vegetation that surrounds it will help clarify and clean the water before it is released into the storm system downstream and ultimately the river.
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a two meter change in the water level during the occasional storm event? horrors... think of the children!
how do they ever manage to create recreational opportunities in bc or the maritimes where the change in water levels can be more than twice that twice a day???
somewhat challenging? not in the least.
somewhat expensive? possibly, but probably no more expensive than recreating those urban and recreational possibilities elsewhere so you're not really saving anything by not doing it here.
this is the difference between doing what we agreed to pay for or not, not a matter of "challenges"...