What are the Benefits of the New Approach?

Lenexa's new approach should result in a system that requires less maintenance, is less expensive, more attractive and more beneficial to the environment. While conventional methods have promoted manmade systems to get water off the land as quickly as possible, Lenexa's new approach uses the natural features of the land to slowly move water along the system, improving water quality using the land and native vegetation. Citizens probably won't know that the sports fields, lakes, and walking trails that they are enjoying are not only recreational assets but are a natural storm water management system designed to clean the water and slow its flow into stream ways.