Maintaining natural grass to an appealing density and in a desired color level requires that it be regularly and thoroughly watered. Nowhere but in rain forests is precipitation adequate enough to maintain what is considered a preferred density and color. The use of drinking water for the sake of keeping grass nice looking is extremely costly to the consumer and is most troublesome to virtually every water control jurisdiction. Droughts are a common climatic occurrence, and, most often, are met with hard to enforce laws intended to restrict water consumption. requires no water…ever!

Just as significantly, and especially in times of heavy rainfall, much water will “run off” natural grassed earth in what is called surface drainage. Such is even more likely and is exaggerated during droughts, when the earth is “baked hard.” Surface drainage generally is directed to sewer systems that dispose (i.e. carry the water off) rather than retain water in reservoirs or allow it to percolate through the soils to underground springs and wells. Natural storm water perculation through soils is known as “replenishing aquifers” and many locales demand “replenishing” by virtue of laws that limit surface drainage to the greatest extent possible.

The design captures and stores much of the typical storm water and allows it to slowly and naturally perculate. Only in rains depositing greater that two to three inches in a short period of time will even begin to surface drain and dispose of the water to lost drainage systems.

Additionally, the protection of the Backing and the In-Fills keeps the natural soils beneath them from “baking hard” and, therefore, retain the ability to absorb storm water at a convenient and consistently more natural pace.