A Guide to Rain Garden Design, Construction and Maintenance
This engineering online PDH course explains how rain gardens work and describes their eco-friendly benefits.
Rain gardens are shallow, constructed depressions that are planted with deep-rooted native plants and grasses. Conversion of land into impermeable surfaces creates new challenges for storm water runoff. This course provides economical options to the otherwise costly stormwater challenges. This course also provides design and construction information including: FAQs, sizing and siting locations, landscaping, plant selection, catchment zones, slope calculations, designs for various soil types, construction, settling, and cost calculations.
This 5 PDH course is intended for civil engineers, geotechnical engineers, landscape architects and contractors who want to learn the methods to design, construct and maintain rain gardens in various conditions.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Knowing where to locate and how to determine the storm water catchment zone
- Understanding how to design the storm water catchment zone
- Understanding how rain gardens reduce storm water pollution
- Understanding how to reduce erosion and other negative impacts
- Familiarizing with rain garden designs in sandy and silty soil
- Understanding appropriate native plants and vegetation that will best benefit a rain garden system
- Learning how to design storm water drainage and overflow systems
- Learning how to maintain a rain garden once it is established
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