Stormwater Management and Low Impact Design

Low Impact Design or 'LID' is an approach to construction and development that realigns urban stormwater management with natural processes.  Increasing the permeability of hardscapes, creating functional and naturalistic site drainage and reusing stormwater as a functional element in landscapes instead of as a waste product all serve these design goals.

Shelterbelt has assisted many commercial and municipal clients improve their urban landscapes with design principals.  We have assisting in the construction of bioswales and retention basins, living roofs, increasing the permeability of hardscapes, and adding rain gardens to parking lots and street scapes.