Watershed protection device and system
AssigneeDraingarde Inc.
InventorJason Stephen Honeyball
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device for use in protecting watersheds from turf treatment contaminants particularly in relation to sports fields and golf courses. The invention further relates to methods and systems for the use of a plurality of the devices in a system to control, impede, or reduce the level of contaminants from turf treatments which enter drainage systems and catch basins associated with turf surfaces, turf sports fields, parks and golf courses. The invention relates to the device alone or in combination with a catch basin cover or in combination with a catch basin directly or in combination with a drainage riser.
Claims20
A device to temporarily and unaffixedly cover one or more drainage openings in an upper surface of a drain or a catch basin disposed on a turf surface in order to deflect or collect inputs from a turf treatment and thereby impede such inputs from entering a drainage system connected to the drain or the catch basin, the device comprising:
- a) a base portion comprising a central portion and a peripheral portion, the peripheral portion comprising an outer peripheral trough, and the central portion comprising a plurality of parallel sloped cross portions, comprising troughs and peaks and a plurality of troughs between the plurality of peaks that define channels into the peripheral trough, and
- b) a peripheral wall including a peripheral top edge, the peripheral wall extending from an outer peripheral edge of the outer peripheral trough, and tapering upwardly and outwardly to the peripheral top edge.
A method for temporarily covering a pattern of drainage openings in a cover of a catch basin in a turf surface to collect inputs from a turf treatment and impede or prevent such inputs from entering through the drain openings into a drainage system, comprising:
- a) providing a covering device having a footprint larger than a footprint of the pattern of drainage openings, the covering device comprising a floor and a peripheral wall, the peripheral wall tapering inwardly and downwardly from a top edge to the floor;
- b) manually placing the covering device temporarily and unaffixedly onto the cover of the catch basin so as to cover the pattern of drainage openings;
- c) applying the inputs on the turf surface surrounding the catch basin, wherein the inputs dispersed over the drainage openings accumulate on the upper surface of the covering device, and
- d) manually removing the covering device from the cover of the catch basin after application of the inputs is completed and emptying the cover of accumulated inputs away from the catch basin, thereby preventing accumulation of inputs entering into the catch basin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.