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Rain Garden / Bioretention

gazebo on a pond at Roger Williams Park

Roosevelt Lake Recreational Path

LID Type: Rain garden, Swale, Stormwater Wetlands

Use: Municipal

Installer: SumCo

Designer/Developer: Gardner & Gerrish, LLC

Install Date: 2013

Fort Barton Elementary School

LID Type: Rain garden/ bioretention

Use: Institutional

Installer: H.V. Collins

Designer/Developer: Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc.

Install Date: 2008

Rhode Island Blood Center

LID Type: Bioretention

Use: Institutional

Installer: E.W. Burman

Designer/Developer: DiPrete Engineering with Vision 3 Architects

Install Date: October 2013

American Locomotive

LID Type: Bioretention, rain gardens, infiltration chambers

Use: Mixed

Installer: New England Construction

Designer/Developer: Struever Brothers Eccles & Rouse (Developer), Durkee Brown Viveiros Werenfels (Architect), and Fuss & O’Neill (Civil Engineer)

Install Date: 2006, 2012

Hillside Hall

LID Type: Bioretention and green roof

Use: Residential

Installer: Insite Construction, Lerner Ladds Bartels, Maplescape Landscape

Designer/Developer: Pare Corporation

Install Date:2011-2012

Hillside Hall

LID Type: Bioretention and green roof

Use: Residential

Installer: Insite Construction, Lerner Ladds Bartels, Maplescape Landscape

Designer/Developer: Pare Corporation

Install Date:2011-2012

Paul Cuffee School

LID Type: Bioretention

Use: Institutional

Installer:Catalano Construction

Designer/Developer: Morris Beacon Design and Klopfer Martin Design Group

Install Date:2012

Mount Saint Charles Academy

LID Type: Bioretention

Use: Institutional

Installer:Catalano Construction

Designer/Developer: Morris Beacon Design

Install Date:2013

Vedanta Society

LID Type: Green roof, drywell, bioretention

Use: Institutional

Installer: TRAC Builders

Designer/Developer: Kite Architects

Install Date: 2013

Narragansett Bay Commission Field’s Point Operations Building

LID Type:Green roof, bioretention, water conservation

Use:Institutional

Installer:Narragansett Bay Commission

Designer/Developer: Kite Architects

Install Date: 2013

wickcove

Wickford Cove Condominiums

LID Type: Rain garden, Swale

Use:Residential

Installer: Shalvey Bros. Landscape, Inc.

Designer/Developer: Rain garden and landscape design by John C. Carter & Company, Inc.; Engineering by Jeffrey J. Campopiano

Install Date: 2011-2012

People digging in a dirt patch

Bristol Town Beach

LID Type:Bioswale, rain garden, native vegetation & buffer plantings

Use:Civic

Installer: D’Ambra Construction

Designer/Developer: Gifford Design Group, Inc.

Install Date:2003-2011

side view of a Townplace Suites

Townplace Suites Rain Garden

LID Type:Bioretention

Use:Commercial

Installer: R.T. Nunes & Sons, Inc.

Designer/Developer: GGarofalo & Associates, Inc.

Install Date:April 2011

blue green and yellow train cars put together to form an office building

The Box Office

LID Type:Bioretention

Use:Commercial

Installer:Stack Design Build

Designer/Developer: Truth Box, Inc. (Developer), Distill Studio (Architect), Morris beacon Design (Civil Engineer), Klopfer Martin Design Group (Landscape Architect), and Structures Workshop, Inc. (Structural Engineer)

Install Date:2010

houses in a row with grass in front

Sweetbriar Subdivision

LID Type: Bioswale, Bioretention, Site Design

Use: Residential

Installer: Nation Wide Construction

Designer/Developer: East Bay Community Development Corporation (Developer), Donald Powers Architect), Gates, Leighton & Associates (Landscape Architect), and Fuss & O’Neill (Civil Engineer)

Install Date: 2009-2010

plants waiting to be planted outside of a school

St. George’s School Library Rain Garden

LID Type: Rain Garden

Use: Institutional

Installer: Shawmut Design & Construction (Grading) and Lori Silvia (Planting)

Designer/Developer: PDR (Architect); VHB (Civil Engineer); and Lori Silvia, St. George’s School Gardener (Planting Design)

Install Date:July 2011

small bushes next to a building

Roger Williams Park Botanical Center Rain Garden

LID Type: Rain Garden

Use: Civic

Installer: Rhode Island Residential Rain Garden Training Program

Designer/Developer: Piting and design by Michael Dietz (CT NEMO) and David Renzi (Out In Front Horticulture); Planting design by Kate Venturini (URI Outreach Center) and David Renzi

Install Date:March 31, 2011

person planting things, plants ready to be planted

Roger Williams Park Botanical Center Rain Garden

LID Type: Rain Garden

Use: Civic

Installer:The MET School

Designer/Developer: Kurt Van Dexter and Joel Boodon (Providence Parks Department)

Install Date:Spring 2010

rows of red-leaved plants and yellow-flowered plants

Providence College Slavin Center

LID Type: Bioretention

Use: Institutional

Installer:Jacavone Construction Corporation

Designer/Developer: Symmes Maini & McKee Associates (Landscape Architect) and Fuss & O’Neill (Civil Engineer)

Install Date:2009

plants next to side of building

North Kingstown Chamber of Commerce Rain Garden

LID Type: Bioretention

Use: Civic

Installer: Boy Scout Troop 1 Kingston

Designer/Developer: Ryan McNaughton (Troop 1 Kingston) and David Renzi (Out in Front Horticulture)

Install Date:July 9, 2011

street next to building with drainpipes showing beneath it

NOAA Headquarters at Quonset’s Pier One

LID Type: Rain Garden

Use: Institutional

Installer: A. Autiello Construction

Designer/Developer: Saccoccio & Associates (Architect), DiPrete Engineering Associates (Civil Engineer), and John C. Carter & Company (Landscape Architect)

Install Date:2009-2010

people standing in a dirt area next to fenced off dumpsters looking at plants being put in the ground

Manton Heights Housing Complex Rain Garden

LID Type: Rain Garden

Use: Residential

Installer:Groundwork Providence

Designer/Developer: Gates, Leighton & Associates

Install Date:April 2011

plants in landscaping in a yard

Louttit Library Rain Garden

LID Type: Rain Garden

Use: Institutional

Installer:Rhode Island Residential Rain Garden Training Program

Designer/Developer: David Renzi (Out in Front Horticulture) and Kate Venturini (URI Outreach Center)

Install Date:April 2011

apartment building with trees planted outside it

Kingstown Crossings Apartments

LID Type: Rain Garden

Use: Residential

Installer:TRAC Builders

Designer/Developer: William Kite Architects, Inc. and L+A Landscape Architecture

Install Date:2011

sidewalk with grass and bushes on either side

Kent Hospital

LID Type:Bioswale, Rain Garden, Water Efficient Landscaping

Use: Institutional

Installer: John Engwer, Groundscapes Express Inc.

Designer/Developer:Thomas S. Benjamin, Regenerative Design Group

Install Date: 2006-2011

cars parked in a building courtyard

Grant’s Block

LID Type: ioretention, Permeable Pavement

Use: Civic

Installer:Catalano Construction, Inc.

Designer/Developer: Jonathan Ford, Morris Beacon Design

Install Date: Summer 2008

plants in brown mulch and grey rocks

Cottages on Greene

LID Type: Bioretention, Bioswale, Permeable Pavement

Use: Residential

Installer: Joseph Palombo, Contemporary Builders (General Contractor) and William Anthony Excavating (Porous Asphalt)

Designer/Developer: Donald Powers (Architect) and Morris Beacon Design (Civil Engineer)

Install Date: Fall 2010

light brown path through freshly planted greenery

Bentley’s Tavern

LID Type: Rain garden

Use: Commercial

Installer: Northern RI Conservation District(NRICD)

Designer/Developer: Ramona LeBlanc (NRICD)

Install Date: June 2008

plants in a square in fresh mulch across from red and white house

North Kingstown Town Hall Rain Garden

LID Type: Rain garden

Use: Municipal

Installer: Out in Front Horticulture and URI Master Gardeners

Designer/Developer:Unknown

Install Date: Approx. 2005

drainpipe near plants

Outreach Center University of Rhode Island

LID Type: Rain garden

Use: Institutional

Installer: Richard Casagrande

Designer/Developer:URI Plant Science Dept.

Install Date:2002

tufts of grass arranged in rows

Ocean Science and Exploration Center, Pell Marine Science Library

LID Type: Rain garden, groundwater recharge system

Use: Civic/Public

Installer: Gilbane Building Co. of Providence, Fleet Construction Co. Inc., Cumberland, R.I.

Designer/Developer:Burt, Hill of Boston

Install Date:2009

people putting plants into the ground

Lonsdale Rain Garden

LID Type: Rain garden

Use: Civic/Public

Installer: Blackstone River Coalition and Audubon Society of RI

Designer/Developer:Eugena Marks, Audubon Society of RI

Install Date: 2009 – 2010

diagram of boulder placement

University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy

LID Type: Bioretention area

Use: Institutional

Installer: Pare Corporation

Designer/Developer:Payette Associates (Architecture) and Carol R. Johnson Associates (Landscape Architecture)

Install Date:

people putting plants in the ground

Shea High School

LID Type: Rain garden

Use: Civic/Public

Installer: Mike Merrill (NRCS Conservationist)

Designer/Developer:Students with the help of Mike Merrill (District Conservationist) and Joel Schmidt  Hydrological Engineer)

Install Date: 2005

people installing stones in a park

Wilcox Park

LID Type: Rain garden

Use: Public

Installer: Save the Bay, OSEEC AmeriCorps, Chariho High School

Designer/Developer:

Install Date: April 2010

person using spade to smooth dirt around plant while others look on

Woonsocket High School

LID Type: Rain garden

Use: Public

Installer: A biology class taught by Cathryn MacDonald and Elizabeth Shallcross

Designer/Developer: Students with the help of Mike Merrill (District Conservationist) and Joel Schmidt (Hydrological Engineer)

Install Date: 2005

rocks and plants in a circle situated in a grassy lawn

Howland Green Landscaping

LID Type: Rain garden

Use: Commercial

Installer: Howland Green Landscaping

Designer/Developer: Howland Green Landscaping

Install Date: 1998

trees and bushes planted next to parking lot across from large brick building

Metro Center Warwick

LID Type:Permeable pavement and rain garden

Use: Commercial

Installer: Fleet Construction, Cumberland, RI

Designer/Developer: Dennis Diprete of DiPrete Engineering

Install Date: October 2007

Permeable Pavements

Save the Bay Center

LID Type: Green Roof / Bioretention / Rain Garden / Pervious Pavements / Reserve Parking

Use: Institutional

Installer: Permeable Pavements: Gridtech

Designer/Developer: Croxton Collaborative Architects, P.C.

Install Date: 2005 project completed

University of Rhode Island Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences Building

University of Rhode Island Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences Building

LID Type: Green Roof, rain garden

Use: Institutional

Installer: Pare Corporation

Designer/Developer: Payette Associates (Architecture) and Carol R. Johnson Associates (Landscape Architecture)

Install Date: January 2009