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Stormwater Runoff Control Pond - Sligo Golf Course |
This is one of the retrofit stormwater controls to areas of the Sligo Creek watershed which developed before modern stormwater controls were legally required. Improving the control of runoff from upstream areas reduces the impacts of peak stormwater flow volumes and velocities downstream. This, in turn, facilitates installation of effective stream habitat restoration improvements in downstream areas of Sligo Creek. The Sligo Golf Course stormwater pond controls runoff from about 70 acres of developed residential drainage upstream of the golf course. The pond's drainage area also captures and cleanses polluted runoff from a mile- long portion of the heavily trafficked Capital Beltway, which is located immediately upstream. [from DEP's 2003 report on Montgomery County's Commitment to Anacostia Watershed Restoration]
