GOING GREEN.(school buildings)(Statistical Data Included)
American School & University, July, 2001
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In Wake County, N.C., school officials needed to deal with stormwater runoff at Combs Elementary School, so they spent $100,000 last year on a retention pond. It holds the water and slowly discharges it into the drainage system. Now, the district has to address similar runoff issues at another elementary building.
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But this time, instead of a retention pond, officials are looking at a rainwater collection system. For about the same money, the system would collect the water and use it for the school's irrigation and toilet-flushing needs. The difference in the two ...
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