A rain garden is a bioretention shallow basin designed to collect, store, filter andtreat water runoff. To optimise its functions, it must include a porous soilmixture, native vegetation and some hyperaccumulator plants, capable ofphytoremediation.
IMPLANTATION: Soft/Medium/Hard
This NBS can be easily built in areas like driveways, walkways, parking lots, compacted lawn areas, roofs, and residential gardens. Often the required location and storage capacity of the garden must be determined first.
AMORTISATION: Short term/Medium term/long term/no amortization
Rain gardens get the recovery of the investment in about 5 years.