Stormwater Management Resources
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Separate Ways: Examining The Stormwater Needs Gap
7/1/2019
The Water Environment Federation’s (WEF) Stormwater Institute (SWI) reports on challenges and the annual funding gap for the municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) sector.
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EPA Stream Restoration Research Supports Chesapeake Bay Recovery
6/4/2019
Fifty-one billion gallons. That’s the average amount of water flowing into Chesapeake Bay on a daily basis. And as all that water seeps, flows, and cascades across the watershed before it spills out into the Bay — the nation’s largest estuary — it picks up signature characteristics of where it has been.
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Coral Reefs Provide Flood Protection Worth $1.8 Billion Every Year — It’s Time To Protect Them
5/14/2019
The biggest obstacle to investing in natural infrastructure, such as wetlands and reefs, often is that experts have not figured out how to value the protection that these habitats provide in economic terms. But a new report, published by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Coastal Hazards Program, solves that problem for one of our planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems: coral reefs.
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Cloud-Enabled Resilience: London’s Answer To Flood Risk
5/1/2019
Flood modeling isn’t new, but it has become more advanced and important as we understand the potential of the cloud(s).
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City Saves Big Money By Using Cloth Media Filters To Treat CSO Discharge
4/12/2019
The City of Rushville, Indiana had to remedy a consent order filed in 2007 for its untreated combined sewer overflow (CSO) discharges that were polluting the Flatrock River, a violation of the Clean Water Act. The city originally planned to install a 1 MGD stormwater storage tank, but was approached by Aqua-Aerobic representatives with a pilot test proposal utilizing a new technology.
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As Climate Change Erodes U.S. Coastlines, An Invasive Plant Could Become An Ally
4/8/2019
Many invasive species are found along U.S. coasts, including fishes, crabs, mollusks, and marsh grasses. Since the general opinion is that invasives are harmful, land managers and communities spend a lot of time and resources attempting to remove them. Often this happens before much is known about their actual effects, either good or bad.
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How Digitalization Can Boost Natural Disaster Resiliency In Municipal Water And Sewerage Treatment
3/28/2019
Digitalization of the municipal water treatment industry is fragmented today, with instrumentation, control, and automation technologies mixed with manual operational activities. Such infrastructures can be detrimental in cases of hydro-geological events, such as severe storms and earthquakes. The good news: When natural disasters strike, digitalization can help get municipal water treatment back online quickly and effectively.
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The Great Flood And Future Predictions
3/27/2019
Did you know that the earliest recorded flood is that of the Great Flood detailed in Christian Bibles, the Torah, and the Quran? I was, therefore, amused to hear from a channel partner about a flow monitoring job in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey, at the foot of Mount Ararat. Why? Because Mount Ararat is cited as the place where Noah’s Ark came to rest after the Great Flood (Genesis 8:4).
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Creating A New Marketplace For Resilient Infrastructure Investment
3/26/2019
Climate change is getting harder to ignore, from alarming new reports about its impacts to debates around a Green New Deal. Yet for all this attention, individual places — from the biggest cities to the smallest towns — are still struggling to do something about it.
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Debunking Myths: 5 Things To Know About Green Infrastructure
3/25/2019
More than 600 million people lack clean drinking water. Drought affects more than 35 million every year. And by 2050, 1.3 billion people will live in flood-prone areas. Most people think that building dams, water treatment plants and other infrastructure is the only solution for these problems — but that’s only because they haven’t considered the many benefits of green infrastructure.