On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Steve Brook <[email protected]> wrote:

> Many new UK housing estates are required to be built with Attenuation
> Ponds / Sustainable Drainage schemes as part of their development. These
> are to control rain water runoff during storms and consist of a pond
> surrounded by an embankment with a controlled release structure to slow
> down drainage of the water to the river system.
>
>
>
> The relevant features might be
>
> ·         Low or normal water level of pond
>
> ·         High water level or top of embankment
>
> ·         Land use/vegetation between low/high water marks is water
> tolerant/marsh plants
>
> ·         Structures for water input and output – often brickwork and
> filter screens round a pipe.
>
>
>
> Has anyone any experience of mapping and tagging such a structure?
>
> Are there any examples of where this has been done?
>

These are common where I live. (We get lots of rain from October to June) I
map them as landuse=basin, basin=* based on how they are designed. See
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:basin for more info.

Clifford


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