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From Asphalt to Bioretention: Lessons Learned from Two Parking Lot Retrofits

March 9, 2015 | By |

Ida Ottesen, Principal at Nakano Associates, and Rebekah Weston, Civil Engineer at Osborn Consulting presented From Asphalt to Bioretention: Lessons Learned from Two Parking Lot Retrofits to a full house at the 2015 Green Gardening Winter Workshop. Their slideshow presentation is available to download by following this link:

From Asphalt to Bioretention – Lessons Learned from Two Parking Lot Retrofits – Nakano Associates and Osborn Consulting

What you will learn from the presentation:

• What makes a parking lot a good candidate to be retrofitted with bioretention
• How to control flow from large volumes of water
• How to effectively filter pollutants
• Plant selection for bioretention
• Best maintenance practices for bioretention
• … and much more

To watch the narrated presentation, see an example Landscape Maintenance Plan and browse all of the past Green Gardening Workshop presentations, see SPU’s resource-rich website:
http://www.seattle.gov/util/ForBusinesses/Landscapes/TrainingCertification/PastPresentations/index.htm