Detention Basin Retrofits and Maintenance - Rutgers Cooperative ...

(a.k.a. a stormwater ponds, wet retention ponds, wet ponds)Retention basins are often used as landscape amenities withpermanent pools of standing water, stormwater fills the basin duringrainfall events and discharges until permanent water surface elevationis reached.Ponds will treat incoming stormwater runoff by allowing particles tosettle and algae to take up nutrients.