Good afternoon
Just received the most recent copy of Bay Soundings — another excellent job. However, it is truly sad, that after 30 years of having one of the oldest and most comprehensive stormwater management programs in the US including extensive public education programs that your authors/reviewers do not know the difference between retention and detention systems. I am referring to Ernie Franke's very good story on aquascaping. However, retention basins are infiltration systems that do not have permanent pools of water and, therefore, do not need aquascaping.
Best wishes,
Eric H. Livingston, Program Administrator, Florida Department of Environmental
Protection NPDES Stormwater Section