Stormwater Featured Articles

91. Call For Proposals: Project Accelerator Applications Are Now Open 7/1/2022

    WaterNow’s Project Accelerator provides bandwidth and support to help communities get these types of projects off the ground. Open to cities, towns, utilities, and other public entities with responsibility for drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater, the Accelerator provides selected projects with about 250 hours of pro-bono support.

92. Holistic Planning Drives Strategic Stormwater Solutions 6/21/2022

    Many look to the immediate concerns a significant weather event might bring — the potential for dangerous driving conditions with heavy sheets of rain or the threat of hail leading to a cracked windshield. Water resource specialists see the challenges posed by stormwater that can result in infrastructure damage and polluted streams. These specialists dive into the reasoning behind why this issue is occurring to identify a solution that protects communities and mitigates long-term effects from major weather events.

93. Bad News For The 2022 Hurricane Season: The Loop Current, A Fueler Of Monster Storms, Is Looking A Lot Like It Did In 2005, The Year Of Katrina 5/25/2022

    The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is already warmer than average. Even more worrying is a current of warm tropical water that is looping unusually far into the Gulf for this time of year, with the power to turn tropical storms into monster hurricanes. It’s called the Loop Current, and it’s the 800-pound gorilla of Gulf hurricane risks.

94. Using Green Infrastructure To Maximize Ecosystem Benefits 5/10/2022

    As part of an agreement with the EPA to reduce contaminated stormwater overflows from reaching the Mississippi river, the City of St. Louis, Missouri has enacted a $100 million grant program to support the installation of rain gardens and other types of green infrastructure across the city.

95. As Sea Levels Rise, Coastal Megacities Will Need More Than Flood Barriers 3/24/2022

    Many of the world’s poorest people live in regions most susceptible to flooding. The situation is expected to worsen in the next few decades, especially for many of the world’s largest cities in lower and middle income countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. These cities must instead become truly “resilient societies” — before it is too late.

96. Coastal Storm Splits Island And Brings Communities Together 2/17/2022

    In 1992, Joseph Vietri, then a coastal engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, was walking with a colleague and a coastal researcher around Westhampton Beach, a barrier island located on the south shore of Long Island, New York.

97. New Flood Maps Show U.S. Damage Rising 26% In Next 30 Years Due To Climate Change Alone, And The Inequity Is Stark 2/1/2022

    Climate change is raising flood risks in neighborhoods across the U.S. much faster than many people realize. Over the next three decades, the cost of flood damage is on pace to rise 26 percent due to climate change alone, an analysis of our new flood risk maps shows.

98. What Is A Purple Pipe? 1/21/2022

    For the city of Beaverton, Oregon, the “Beaverton Purple Pipe” is a new water system that routes treated stormwater to irrigate green spaces like parks, school grounds and residential yards.

99. Successful Flood Project Benefits Small Village And New York City Miles Away 1/14/2022

    The Steele Brook Streambank Stabilization Project is one of many the Army Corps of Engineers has performed under its New York City Watershed Environmental Assistance Program. With the restoration of Steele Brook’s banks, there is less flooding and improved water quality, and it’s giving new life to Reservoir Park.

100. Sewage Pollution: Our Research Reveals The Scale Of England's Growing Problem 11/1/2021

     The UK has around 1,500 individual river systems, totaling over 200,000 km, or roughly 124,274 miles, in length. It’s common for sewers here to accept both untreated human waste and rain water in a combined system. Water and sewerage companies are permitted to release this wastewater into inland and coastal waters without treatment under exceptional conditions, such as following heavy rainfall.