TY - JOUR T1 - Open space through stormwater management: Helping to structure growth on the urban fringe JF - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation SP - 14 LP - 21 VL - 49 IS - 1 AU - J. Toby Tourbier Y1 - 1994/01/01 UR - http://www.jswconline.org/content/49/1/14.abstract N2 - Many current events described in the media point to the continuation of a past trend: like it or not, most future growth will continue to occur in the suburbs. At subdivision and land development review meetings, one of the most frequently discussed topics is stormwater management. Unimaginative engineering approaches to stormwater management, though, often leave subdivisions pockmarked with dry depressions in remote corners collecting debris, while remaining “on standby” to control runoff from rare storm events. The costs are borne by future home buyers, but the objectives of protecting water resources and reducing flooding downstream are not fully realized. This article advocates a holistic approach that views stormwater as a vital part of the hydrologie cycle involving management practices to insure infiltration, control runoff pollution, reduce thermal impacts and control peak flows. Management practices for this kind of control put the landscape to work by utilizing processes of nature such as vegetative filtering during conveyance, cooling through shade trees, detention through depression storage, and infiltration. When implemented in settings that prior to the introduction of impervious surfaces did not experience much runoff, such management practices can be designed to form systems that function as an extension of the … ER -