Entries Tagged Stormwater Runoff

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will provide up to $3 million in research grants for projects that will study the benefits...

By reforming its entire stormwater management program and changing the way residents think about water resources, Onondaga County, N.Y., evolved from the...

Nashville, Tenn., is recognized as the country music capital of the world, but the city is working hard to garner another title,...

In July 1996, a millennial storm hit the Village of Montgomery, Ill., unleashing 17 inches of rain in 24 hours — half...

High-powered sales strategies enabled Brant Keller, Public Works and Utilities director, in Griffin, Ga., to sell a stormwater utility to city commissioners...

Situated at the confluence of the Santa Margarita River with Murrieta and Temecula Creeks, the City of Temecula, Calif., acts like a...

In the words of Donald Hamm, Bay County Utility Services Water Division superintendent, “This is not your typical service area.”Bay County, Fla.,...

The 2010 Blue Star Award for Minnesota’s best stormwater management went not to a big city like St. Paul, not to a...

Even a two-year storm surcharged the stormwater system in Winchester, Mass., flooding the main athletic field and its neighborhood. The system drains...

The Des Plaines River originates in Libertyville, Ill., and eventually reaches the mighty Mississippi. Flooding is common along the corridor, and some...

The resort community of Girdwood, Alaska, receives more than 200 inches of snow annually. That’s good news for tourists who enjoy skiing...

Waycross, a Georgia city of 15,000 people, is too small to come under MS4 stormwater permit coverage, yet it is one of...