A retention basin can also be a part of a nuclear reactor used to contain a core meltdown.

New sewers, water lines, retention basins and road bases for the Newburgh project have been completed.

"Township officials said the retention basin is too unclean and unsafe to be used for any kind of boating."

Rain gardens differ from retention basins, in that the water will infiltrate the ground within a day or two.

Five years later, the company expressed interest in purchasing houses behind the mall to build a retention basin.

The lake also acts as a retention basin to prevent flooding to and to regulate the flow of the river Ise.

Tolerates deeper water than most common species and is good for retention basins.

The dam was inaugurated on 19 November 1954 as a retention basin and has been a drinking water reservoir since 1958.

Together with several other dams and retention basins, it forms the flood protection system for the eastern Harz.

The retention basin was extended in the 1990's by a second, in order to hold water from a larger catchment area.