Client: Multi-National Consumer Products Company
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Project Description: This project involved construction of integrated systems designed to collect stormwater from roof and paved areas, and that redirects this water into a series of structures that allow rain water to either infiltrate an area paved with permeable pavers, or into a bio-infiltration swale featuring a stretch of native vegetation that provides for evapotranspiration and erosion control. Key components of this green-infrastructure project included permeable pavement, a bio-infiltration swale, roof stormwater harvesting, and a rain garden.
Significant benefits resulting from this project include:
- The area paved with permeable pavers allows stormwater from about 50,000 square feet of pavement to infiltrate into the gravel and soil beneath;
- The bio-infiltration swale collects stormwater from the remaining areas of the facility and never overflows;
- The rain garden not only receives water collected from a roofed area, but it also attracts butterflies and other pollinators.
Project Duration: This project commenced in April 2014 and was completed in August of the same year.
Project Cost: The total cost for this innovative green-infrastructure project was $405,000.