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7344
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David H. Moreau, a UNC-Chapel Hill professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, has once again been named director of the Water Resources Research Institute of UNC effective July 1, 2005. Moreau, who was WRRI director from 1983 to 1995, has been a UNC faculty member since 1968.
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8182
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Low-impact development, or LID, is a new stormwater management strategy. Instead of diverting runoff away from its origin, LID assimilates rainwater where it falls, through a system of small, discrete methods distributed throughout the landscape. It uses the hydrological functions that were there before the property was developed. Instead of using traditional methods of water conveyance, like roof downspouts, curbs and gutters, or drainage pipes, builders can use bioretention areas (rain gardens), grassy swales, vegetated buffer/filter strips and infiltration trenches.
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