Water management is a big issue for building developments, commercial and domestic.
Most developments these days are required to slow the flow of water into the storm water system. One way of doing this is to implement retention tanks and infiltration areas into your landscape design.
Infiltration areas like garden beds and turf areas (not hard areas like concrete or stone) allow water to flow into the ground preventing overflow of storm water systems and contamination of natural water ways.
Novascape Landscaping have successfully installed a number of Atlantis infiltration systems designed to do exactly this. These systems store water under the ground, allow the water to seep back into the ground slowly and allow excess to run off into the storm water system more slowly.
Contact Novascape for more information about infiltration systems and to discuss whether or not you could implement one in your landscape project.