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Bioretention Technology: Design, Construction, and Maintenance …

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Sea Aire: Southern “surf vibe” neighborhood coming to James Island soon

Sea Aire is a neighborhood project we’re leading in collaboration with Kerns Land Planning & Design and Holden Design Shop. Working closely with the developer & builder New Leaf Builders, we are designing the community as a “Cluster Development” under the City of Charleston’s relatively new land use ordinance section. The cluster development ordinance requires that 40 percent of the parcel be maintained as shared open space. At Sea Aire, the open space will include an activity lawn, a playground, a community garden, and perimeter buffers.

The neighborhood will consist of 24 custom modern homes carefully planned around Grand Trees and storm water drainage features. Existing drainage ditches will be converted to storm water bio-swales, and we’ve designed a bio-retention basin to serve as a functional landscape element within the community park.  

Several years ago we worked with New Leaf to create Fox Hollow, a 9 home neighborhood on James Island that was the 2013 PRISM Award Winner for Best New Community. 

Citywide Sustainability Improvements

The rain garden across from the TRICO building (pictured above) has recently been completed making it one of the region's largest bio-retention areas in one of the city's most expansive parking lots. In its opening two weeks it filtered over 380,000 gallons of water back into the Earth instead of adding to the city's combined storm-water and sewage drainage system and assuring less discharge. Central to the design is the Jellyfish Filter which cleanses most of the water before entering the garden reducing metals, trash, nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended solids from 50% - 100%.

On the Southern edge of the city the Tifft Nature Preserve Visitor Center is fulfilling its low environmental impact mission by adding water efficient toilets and electric hand dryers for visitors while using geothermal and solar power to minimize temperature and energy expenses. All of these projects only add to Buffalo's growing image of embracing sustainable culture complete with multiple rain gardens, urban farms, cleaner rivers, and pollution reduction.