💦 Rain gardens for the town of Liptovský Mikuláš

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Water retention measures in practice - rain gardens for the town of Liptovský Mikuláš save over €10,000 per year on stormwater fees. 

We are the authors of a unique project for the town of Liptovský Mikuláš. This project involves rain gardens designed to capture rainwater. Our priority was to retain rainwater right where it falls, support local biodiversity,  and disconnect properties from the storm sewer system, thereby eliminating rainwater fees. We accomplished all this  at secondary schools and kindergartens.

A total of 19 new rain gardens were created. This is a functional, economical, beneficial, and aesthetically very attractive measure that serves to infiltrate rainwater from roofs into the ground. Water no longer drains unnecessarily into the sewer system, and schools do not pay for it as they did before. The water infiltrates into the rain garden,   into the subsoil, replenishing groundwater; it also evaporates from the surface, having a positive impact on the local microclimate. It thus returns water back into the small water cycles. 

We also kept biodiversity in mind, and over 7,000 plants of various species—from wetland to drought-tolerant—were planted in the gardens. We retained   5,408,000 liters of water in the environment  from 2,640 m2 of roofs, planted over 7,000 plants, and built over 700 m2 of rain gardens.