When The Home for Little Wanderers, a non-profit child and family agency, decided to consolidate and upgrade a few of their locations, a major part of the renovation included the installation of a storm water retention and management system.
The school facilities are clustered in a 10-acre area of the property, with most of the open space reserved for students' use as ball fields or gardens or dedicated to the large leaching field. Engineers were tasked with finding a location for the retention system within this limited area that had favorable soils and would not impact wetland resource areas or the functionality of the site.
To maximize the useable open space for students, the engineers chose an underground chamber system provided by Cultec. The Recharger(r) 330XLHD was the best fit for the site, as it efficiently provided a large amount of storage within the desired footprint of the system and still blended into the natural grade.
The chamber alone holds nearly 475 gal and has a minimal installed storage of approximately 80 cu ft per unit when surrounded with stone. Chambers are equipped with two side portals that allow manifolding at any point within the system, eliminating the need for external manifolds.
Source: CULTEC
