"Timothy" wrote in message
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:11:48 +0000, Tex John wrote:

As an environmental scientist for a wetlands consultant firm in Houston,
I thought this article was great and worth passing on.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4654362.stm

A bit of proof of what us wetland guys have been saying for decades...

We have a bunch of these here in Bellingham, Washington. I've heard them
refered to them as "bioretention" mostly, but I gather that they are one
in the same.

"Bioswale" is the term thrown around here. The City of Seattle re-did a
street up in the northend as a demonstration project to show how it could be
done remedially on a large-scale in a residential neighborhood. I tried to
find pictures on the web, but the best I seem to have found is a transcript
of a radio interview.
(http://www.loe.org/shows/shows.htm?p...00007#feature6)

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