How cities can use rain gardens to help prevent flooding

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-cities-gardens.html

Canada's capital, Ottawa, was bombarded with 167 millimeters (6.6 inches) of rain in five hours earlier this summer in what the city called a 1-in-200-year event. Close to 5,800 reports of basement flooding followed, and the worst of it hit the city's west end, including the Crystal Beach neighborhood.


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notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 18d

The ideas are there, now they just need to be applied. Conservatives like to cite these approaches, it makes them look knowledgeable and look active; in reality they implement zero, scratch, nill , nought.