University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy

Type: Bioretention area

Use: Institutional

Installer: Pare Corporation

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

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Address: Flagg Road, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, 02881

The low impact stormwater systems designed for the URI College of Pharmacy building provide water quality and peak runoff control so as to maximize infiltration. It was designed in conjunction with the Center for Biological Science Building that is to the west of the site and will utilize some of the same stormwater systems. The new design has 1.6 fewer acres of impervious surfaces than the previous structure. This will promote increased infiltration and decreased peak flow rates. The bioretention area is north of the building structure and receives water from areas east and south of the site which it is designed to store. It consists of a catch basin where suspended solids can settle out, has a stone bottom and has vegetation in and around the area.

Address: Flagg Road, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, 02881