answers from Chicago on. Very tiny bugs coming up the drain that hop a little are probably springtales...I goggled tiny little bugs that hop when I first encountered them and that's what came up.
Detention basin. A detention basin or retarding basin is an excavated area installed on, or adjacent to, tributaries of rivers, streams, lakes or bays to protect against flooding and, in some cases, downstream erosion by storing water for a limited period of time.
Drainage basin (catchment area) is the area which supplies a river system, lake or reservoir with water. The whole area consists of smaller sub-catchments supplying tributaries of the main ri-ver and direct catchments, which drain straight into a lake or main river (Box 3.1).ts purpose is to co-nvey excess water from a drainage basin, which will include the products of weathering and addi-tional loads of solutes produced by man. This pro-perty makes a drainage basin an integrator and its operation is reflected in the quantity and quality of the river run-off.