Christian Brothers University Soccer Field Detention Memphis, Tennessee After years of dealing with ?ooding in a densely populated area of downtown Memphis, the City of Memphis hired SSR to perform a Lit Creek drainage basin study to identify the need for regional detention in certain areas. The study, and associated dynamic water model, identi?ed that the basin ?ooded due to capacity issues; it was dealing with more rainfall than the system could handle. The study also identi?ed locations for potential detention ponds to temporarily store the excess water so the system could handle the amount of water ?ow and limit ?ooding. One of these sites was located on the campus of Christian Brothers University (CBU), speci?cally their soccer ?eld. The City approached CBU about the detention and pur

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