Stormwater Management News
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Pioneering Research Reveals Some Of The World's Least Polluting Populations Are At Much Greater Risk Of Flooding Fuelled By Climate Change
11/8/2024
A new study has exposed for the first time how inhabitants of the smallest countries globally, contributing least to climate change, already bear the brunt of its devastating consequences and the burden is likely to worsen.
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UChicago Scientist Develops New Paradigm To Predict Behavior Of Atmospheric Rivers
11/4/2024
When torrential rains and powerful winds hit densely populated coastal regions, whole cities can be destroyed—but governments and residents can take precautions with sufficient warning.
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Hurricane Season Puts New Storm Surge Model To The Test
11/1/2024
Just ten days after Hurricane Helene brought storm surge to much of Florida’s west coast, a different low-pressure system began brewing in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. A few hours after its development on Saturday, October 5, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) declared it a tropical storm. By the next day, it was named Milton, and rapidly intensified into a Category 1 hurricane.
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EPA And North Carolina Health Authorities Encourage Well Water Testing In Areas Affected By Hurricane Helene
10/31/2024
Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Acting Regional Administrator Jeaneanne Gettle joined Tim Futrelle, Mayor of Boone, N.C., Mary Penny Kelley, Secretary, N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, and Jennifer Greene, Health Director/CEO, AppHealthCare, at EPA’s mobile water laboratory in Boone, N.C. to emphasize the importance of testing water from private wells for bacterial contamination if the well was impacted by flooding from Hurricane Helene.
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A 'Worrying Confluence' Of Flood Risk, Social Vulnerability And Climate Change Denial
10/23/2024
In certain parts of the United States, especially Appalachia, New England and the Northwest, the ability of residents to prepare for and respond to flooding is being undercut on three different levels.
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Advanced Drainage Systems Hosts Grand Opening Ceremony For Engineering And Technology Center In Hilliard, Ohio
10/22/2024
Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. (“ADS” or the “Company”), a leading provider of innovative water management solutions in the stormwater and onsite septic wastewater industries, today celebrated the opening of the $65M ADS Engineering and Technology Center.
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EPA Orders The Puerto Rico Department Of Transportation To Comply With The Clean Water Act In Ponce, Puerto Rico
10/18/2024
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued an administrative order to the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTPW) requiring them to resolve Clean Water Act violations associated with the municipality’s separate storm sewer systems (MS4) and stormwater management program.
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NSF-Funded, ASU-Led Research Network Tackles Flood Justice
10/17/2024
Like many environmental risks, flooding exacerbates preexisting social inequalities, with marginalized communities often bearing the brunt of its impact.
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EPA Awards $14.4M To Improve Local Water Quality, Address Runoff Pollution Across the Mid-Atlantic
10/16/2024
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $14.4M to improve the health of local waterbodies in Delaware ($1.3M), the District of Columbia ($1M), Maryland ($2.3M), Pennsylvania ($4.8M), Virginia ($3.2M), and West Virginia ($1.9M).
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High Occurrence Of PFASs In Biofilters For Stormwater Treatment
10/11/2024
In collaboration with researchers at Ohio State University and the Swedish construction company NCC, researchers in Urban Water Engineering at Luleå University of Technology have conducted a comprehensive study on occurrence, concentration and distribution of PFASs in urban biofilter facilities treating stormwater.