Detention pond method
OwnerFrank Charles Adamek, Benton Frederick Baughinventors
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Abstract
A detention pond for the passive temporary storage of detained water during a potential flooding event near a river, stream or bayou where the depth and therefore the volume of the detention pond is not set by the elevation of the normally flowing water in said river, stream or bayou adjacent detention pond but rather the drain line connects to the river, stream or bayou downstream of the detention pond where the elevation is at a lower level, allowing the detention pond to be dug deeper and therefore of proportionately greater volume.
Claims20
A method of using a detention pond which will completely drain during non-flooding times to minimize flooding during a flooding event, comprising
- providing a detention pond,
- digging said detention pond to a deeper elevation than an elevation of a normal flowing level of an adjacent portion of a river, stream, or bayou proximate said detention pond,
- connecting a first end of a drain pipe to a bottom of said detention pond, and
- connecting a second end of said drain pipe to said river, stream, or bayou at a downstream location where the normal flowing elevation of said river, stream, or bayou is lower than the normal flowing elevation of said river, stream, or bayou proximate said detention pond,
- such that said detention pond will completely drain during non-flooding times and therefore have a greater water storage capacity for a given surface area of real estate that a detention pond dug to the normal flowing elevation of the river, stream, or bayou proximate said detention pond.
A method of using a detention pond whose volume is generally a product of a surface area times a depth which will completely drain during non-flooding times to minimize flooding during a flooding event, comprising
- providing a detention pond,
- digging said detention pond to a deeper elevation than an elevation of a normal flowing level of an adjacent portion of a river, stream, or bayou proximate said detention pond,
- connecting a first end of a drain pipe near a bottom of said detention pond, and
- connecting a second end of said drain pipe to said river, stream, or bayou at a downstream location where a normal flowing elevation of said river, stream, or bayou is lower than the normal flowing elevation of said river, stream, or bayou proximate said detention pond,
- such that said detention pond will completely drain during non-flooding times and will have a greater water storage capacity for a given surface area of real estate than a detention pond dug to the normal flowing elevation of the river, stream, or bayou proximate said detention pond.
A method of using a detention pond which will completely drain during non-flooding times to minimize flooding during a flooding event, comprising
- providing a detention pond near a river, stream, or bayou which has a first normal flowing water level proximate said detention pond and a lower second flowing water elevation at a downstream location,
- digging said detention pond to a deeper elevation than said first normal flowing water level of said river, stream, or bayou but not deeper than said lower second flowing water elevation,
- connecting a first end of a drain pipe to the bottom of said detention pond, and
- connecting a second end of said drain pipe to said river, stream, or bayou at said downstream location,
- such that said detention pond will completely drain during non-flooding times and therefore have a greater water storage capacity for a given surface area of real estate that a detention pond dug to said first normal flowing elevation of said river, stream, or bayou.
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