Fresno Famous

I saw this in the LA Times today & was wondering if it would help us here in Fresno were we use ponding basins to filter our drinking water, that gets polluted by our dirty run-off
so with these bio-retention planters, the water gets more filtered before it gets to those ponding basins

from the "Los Angeles Times"
L.A. kicks its storm drainage up a notch
Slotted curbs allow runoff to flow into planters, which filter impurities that usually end up in the ocean.
By Susan Carpenter
7:14 PM PDT, March 12, 2009

Using a natural process called bio-retention, they send some of the runoff through notched curbs, where the water feeds landscaping and percolates through the soil. The city and county governments, real estate developers and non-governmental organizations such as Northeast Trees are ramping up their use of such planters as the area's water resources diminish and pollution issues persist.

"We're looking to weave the textures of nature into our streets and sidewalks because we've learned over the past decade or so that nature has a really elegant solution to pollution," said L.A. City Board of Public Works Commissioner Paula A. Daniels. Daniels also heads GreenStreets L.A., a program established in 2007 to bring together city agencies and jump-start urban runoff solutions.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-stormwater13-2009mar13,0,1142942...