All water from the interior of the home goes into
the sanitary sewer, not the storm water line. So
that's a different issue entirely.
By the way swales and water gardens are
excellent controllers of run off and, as Bill Kahn
pointed out, pretty easy to do on your own. Green
roofs are another fish completely. Most if not all
existing homes in Mpls. would have to have their roofs
significantly reinforced in order to bear the weight
of a green roof. It would be prohibitively expensive
in anything other than new construction. They are a
very good idea for flat roofed commercial buildings.
Mpls. could follow the fine example of Chicago and
start a green roof campaign for all the flat roofed
heat sinks that are downtown. You could purchase a
tomato at the Mall Farmers Market that had been grown
on a roof seventy feet above. Jon Gorder Cathedral
Hill
> Before you do anymore to make us all out to be both
> poor and pitiful,
> rather than just poor: the city does have an
> argument, to some extent,
> in charging a two-, 3-, 4-unit building more for
> waste water,
> particularly if the units are filled with families
> rearing children and
> have on-site laundry facilities. Where the argument
> breaks down is
> duplexes and small multi-unit dwellings without
> laundries, spas,
> whatever rented to adult singles without children.
>
> With the changes they need to implement on their new
> > WizardMarks, Central
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