BUILDERnews® Magazine - Increasingly, Western communities- particularly urban areas-are using an approach known as "low-impact development" (LID) to control stormwater pollution. Instead of making large investments in complex and costly engineering strategies for municipality-wide stormwater management, LID accomplishes this by various lot-level design strategies that are designed to mimic natural hydrology and processes, customized to each individual development and implemented by developers.

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