SUSTAINABLE URBAN LANDSCAPES
The Brentwood Design Charrette
ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE  
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Example 3
Team One perspective sketch of neighbourhood drainage system. The drainage channel shown at left directly responds to the sloped topography of the site. Instead of a continuously sloping channel, a series of shallow rills that are underlain with a crushed, recycled concrete french drain, slow the movement of water. This allows coarse sediment to settle instead of being channeled directly to Still Creek.

 Example 4
Team Four’s concept sketch illustrates an integrated stormwater management strategy involving rooftop catchment basins, tree cover, peat trenches, and crushed recycled concrete.

Example 5
Team Three proposed a large wet swale within the median of Willingdon Avenue. Planted with a layering of wetland vegetation, the swale functions as a continuous  vegetative buffer and habitat area for waterfowl and birds.