What percentage of annual rain does the site retain?
We currently do not have figures for the exact percentage of annual rainfall retained by this system due to difficulties in measuring precipitation during the winter months because of snow and icing at the site. It is interesting however to note that during the month of July 2004 a total of 10.48 inches of rain fell at the site. During this particularly rainy month, a total of 3.39 inches of rain overflowed from the BMP which reflects a performance of 67.7%. Click here to see an interesting summary of our research for the month of July 2004.