Retrofit Your Stormwater Detention Basin!
Retrofitting existing stormwater detention basins is one of the most effective ways we can ensure
southeastern Pennsylvania rivers and streams have enough clean water for our families.
What Happens to Stormwater in aTypical Detention Basin?
Typical detention basins are designed to collect water from roads, buildings and parking lots and channel it into a nearby stream as quickly as possible.
What Happens to Stormwater in aRetrofitted Detention Basin?
Retrofitted detention basins can hold, absorb and filter stormwater runoff, and protect our streams and rivers.
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council, in cooperation with a regional basin retrofit advisory team,
developed simple, low-cost measures that you can do to help protect our rivers and control pollution.