If you live in a suburban or urban area in Charlotte NC, you will probably want to be able to answer the question, “what is a stormwater pond and what is its purpose?” This type of pond plays a huge role in our communities.

These ponds improve water quantity, control water quality, and can also prevent downstream flooding and reduce pollution.

Stormwater ponds have a few other names with which you may be more familiar: stormwater retention basins, stormwater swale, dry detentions, and wet retentions. When it rains or when snow/ ice melts, the water “runs off” across the ground instead of soaking into the ground.

When this happens, the water doesn’t have anywhere to go. That’s when stormwater ponds come into play. A stormwater management pond is an artificial pond that is designed to collect and retain urban stormwater. This water may come from streets, roofs, yards, driveways, parking lots, and other hard surfaces.

Another purpose of a stormwater pond is to retain sediments and other materials. Stormwater ponds affect citizens when they are not well built. Poorly constructed stormwater ponds can result in flooding, spreading of sediment and other materials, etc., making it imperative that they get done correctly.

Many parts of these ponds keep those things from happening: pond embankments, outlet structures, inlets, forebays, emergency spillways, and safety benches, to name a few.

Stormwater ponds have many purposes and parts- all of which are vital to our communities.

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