[Tagging] Mapping Attenuation Ponds / Sustainable Drainage schemes
Clifford Snow
clifford at snowandsnow.us
Sun May 7 17:10:02 UTC 2017
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Steve Brook <srbrook at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Many new UK housing estates are required to be built with Attenuation
> Ponds / Sustainable Drainage schemes as part of their development. These
> are to control rain water runoff during storms and consist of a pond
> surrounded by an embankment with a controlled release structure to slow
> down drainage of the water to the river system.
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> The relevant features might be
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> · Low or normal water level of pond
>
> · High water level or top of embankment
>
> · Land use/vegetation between low/high water marks is water
> tolerant/marsh plants
>
> · Structures for water input and output – often brickwork and
> filter screens round a pipe.
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> Has anyone any experience of mapping and tagging such a structure?
>
> Are there any examples of where this has been done?
>
These are common where I live. (We get lots of rain from October to June) I
map them as landuse=basin, basin=* based on how they are designed. See
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:basin for more info.
Clifford
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