Stormwater Management Facilities
Throughout new subdivisions in Milton, you will see stormwater management facilities, often incorporated into the parks and trails system. These facilities serve a variety of environmental purposes. In older development areas, rainfall runoff from the hard surface areas would wash pollutants, such as gasoline, engine oil, fertilizers and pesticides directly into our streams and lakes without being treated. This runoff would also increase water levels in creeks and streams, resulting in erosion and flooding downstream.
Today, we minimize these problems through the design and installation of stormwater management facilities. These engineered creeks and ponds are intended to replicate a natural environment and do not require routine maintenance, such as grass and weed cutting.
These facilities in Milton complement our park, trail and open space system as they grown into attractive, naturalized areas.
