The team behind an environmentally sensitive parking lot at Gulley Park hopes it example for developers and builders, encouraging them to use stormwater management practices that protect water quality rather than harm it.
The city of Fayetteville partnered with the Uni- will be an versity of Arkansas Department of Landscape Architecture and the Arkansas Forestry Commission to build the 30-space parking lot with four bioswales located on the south and southwest sides of the lot and the center island.
Bioswales are designed to treat runoff water, trapping pollutants and silt, before the water flows into the watershed.
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