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Applied Ecological Services, Inc.
Wisconsin Office
17921 Smith Road,
P. O. Box 256
Brodhead, WI 53520
Phone: 608.897.8641
Voicemail: 608.897.4898
AES Fax: 608.897.8486
TCRN Fax: 608.897.2044
Info@AppliedEco.com
Illinois Office
120 West Main St
W. Dundee, IL 60118
Phone: 847.844.9385
Fax: 847.844.8759
Info.il@AppliedEco.com
Kansas City Office
1904 Elm Street
Eudora, KS 66025
Phone 785.542.3090
Fax 785.542.3570
Info.ks@AppliedEco.com
Minnesota Office
21938 Mushtown Rd
Prior Lake, MN 55372
Phone: 952.447.1919
Fax: 952.447.1920
Info.mn@AppliedEco.com
East Coast Office
1100 E. Hector Street Suite #398
Conshohocken, PA 19428
Phone: 610.238.9088
Info.pa@AppliedEco.com
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Alternative Stormwater Management
We recently spoke on this topic at a conference called “It Rains Everywhere, and It Drains Somewhere”…which is exactly the point. Through urbanization and agricultural drainage, we have very measurably altered the way our presettlement landscapes “managed” stormwater. Agricultural drainage with tile and ditches contribute immense amounts of sedimented water to our river systems. In urban areas, engineered systems designed to funnel water downstream, or to detain it, or retain it, have not been able to prevent flooding problems.
Farm land drainage and traditional urban stormwater systems have contributed greatly to our muddied, eroded streams, poor water quality in nutrient-rich lakes and the typically degraded fish and wildlife habitat in our riparian corridors.
However, whether on a watershed scale or on any specific site, alternative stormwater management systems can be designed using natural systems such as wetlands to clean the water in our waterways, to mitigate flooding impacts, to provide healthy fish and wildlife habitat…in short, alternative stormwater management uses healthy natural landscapes to provide a higher quality of life in our communities.
On specific sites, AES develops Stormwater Treatment Train© systems designed to emulate (as much as possible) the hydrologic behavior of the pre-settlement landscape. STT systems favor the use of absorbent stormwater swales, prairie buffers and wetlands to manage stormwater, minimizing curb, gutter and storm sewer to the extent possible.
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On a watershed scale, alternative stormwater management principles provide opportunities to restore degraded wetlands or farmed wetlands, with a host of downstream benefits. They also offer opportunities to stabilize our stream systems, increasing and improving fish and wildlife habitat.
Innovative hydrologic studies, sound ecological planning and active involvement of local communities are the hallmarks of successful projects with goals for environmentally sensitive stormwater management.
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Case Studies
- Prairie Crossing Hydrograph; Grays Lake, Illinois 185K
- Prairie Crossing Conservation Development; Grays Lake, Illinois 122K
- Busse Youth Athletic Complex, Prior Lake, Minnesota 103K
- Des Plaines River Floodplain Reserve, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin 33K
- Stormwater Management Landscape Revitalization; Fort Sheridan, Illinois 119K
- Master Plan Development, Liberty, Missouri 22K
- Ecological Planning Conservation Development Stormwater Management; Lino Lakes, Minnesota 62K
- Stormwater Management Planning Nine Springs Neighborhood; Fitchburg, Wisconsin 71K
- Prairie Lakes, Homewood, Illinois 212K
- Red River of North, Northwest Minnesota 63K
- Skokie River/Chicago Botanical Garden, Glencoe,Illinois 151K
- Jackson County Stormwater Study, Jackson County, Missouri 280K
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