The extensive collection system helps to feed the irrigation network of the park's lawns. Thus, the park also operates as an urban sponge, absorbing and minimizing rainwater impact on the city's ...

The firm recently reused the same modular system to produce a spiral-shaped development of almost 100 homes that wind around a central pond that forms part of a clever rainwater collection system.

A wet rainwater collection system costs $6,000 to $17,000 on average. In these underground systems, water remains inside the pipes until forced into the tank by pressure from additional rainfall.

Over the next six years, Pennsylvania American Water plans to invest more than $1.5 million in Sadsbury Township wastewater collection system improvements.