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Five Main Features Of Designing A New Venue In Town

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Designing a New Venue in Town
a. Description of Venue My venue is going to be used as a paintball course area. It would be located in the area as marked by Figure 1. There is seven normal outdoor paintball fields and one giant grassy outdoor paintball field. There is also an indoor paintball field as well. Two of the normal fields would be covered with trees and four would be covered with grass. In my venue, there is also a check-in / rental area for people to rent out equipment and check in. There is also an ice cream parlour in the rental area as well.
The estimated number of people using it at any given time is 40.

b. Features that would reduce negative impact
There are five main features that would reduce negative impact to surface …show more content…

This helps minimize negative impact to the surface/ground water reservoirs in two different ways.
One, this reduces the risk of algal blooms in the surface waters. Algal blooms occur due to the excess amount of nutrients in the water, causing eutrophication. Eutrophication causes huge plant and algae growth because of the increased amount of nutrients. Then the plants and algae die and bacteria causes the plants/algae to decompose, using up dissolved oxygen. This results in a lack of oxygen, hypoxia and anoxia, in the water. Therefore, many organisms such as the fish die due to the lack of dissolved oxygen in the water.
Two, this increases the potential of infiltration. Water flows from impermeable areas like buildings to the settling pond where it can infiltrate into the ground. Rip rap is the surface cover of the water retention pond. Rip rap creates channels for water to flow through, giving its high infiltration rate. Even though most of the water would be drained by the drainage pipes, some would be infiltrated into the soil.
Another water control feature is having a vegetative surface cover on the hillsides of the venue. As seen in Figure 2, grass, a vegetative cover, covers the southern hill and trees cover the northern hill. The vegetation stabilizes the soil, preventing erosion and gulleys. The vegetative surface cover on the hillsides also increases the potential for infiltration. Grass has a high infiltration rate because the roots and the

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