Possibly the only thing worse than a failed stormwater system is a failed plan to fix it. This is what Glenn Balliew discovered in June 2017.
While still a relatively new director of public works in Kirksville, Missouri, Balliew was confronted with a chronic stormwater problem that turned critical. “We received a report from the Department of Natural Resources that said we were not doing enough to fulfill the requirements of the stormwater management program we had, that we weren’t complying with our own management program,” he says. “And we weren’t.”
Kirksville is a community of nearly 20,000 people in northeast
