CHALLENGES OF EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROLFOR WATERCOURSE PROJECTS
By Heather Amirault, P.E.
The traditional role of erosion and sediment control (ESC) is to keep sediment from construction sites, with a particular emphasis on keeping sediment out of natural areas. It is especially important to keep sediment out of sensitive natural areas like watercourses and creeks. However, what happens when your construction...
HOW CONSTRUCTORS USE ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY TO SUCCEED
By Joe Moore, MS4 CECI
Since the inception of the Clean Water Act in 1972, businesses, regulators, engineers and constructors have been attempting to work in concert toward one goal: clean water. The challenges spread far and wide, and there are differing degrees of what clean water looks like. From chemical removal to...
By Angel Menéndez
In coastal Georgia, the use of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) is becoming more widely accepted. Yet Georgia’s municipalities, not unlike municipalities across the United States, continue to discuss proper operations and maintenance of the practices and seek available resources to inspect and maintain them. Maintenance is critical for long-term performance and while GSI is no exception, inspection...
I think there is one thing the entire global community agrees on: The year 2020 was a statistical outlier, one that was significantly different on so many levels. I refuse to use the word “unprecedented,” and truth be told I am secretly hopingthat the linguists start a movement to remove it from our lexicon! Let us not dwell on...
In many of our watersheds, runoff from impervious surfaces leads to both high hydraulic loads and excess nutrients in our surface waters. We’ve found numerous ways to dampen the high flow events but removing the pollutants has proven more difficult. One option is to pass the runoff through an engineered bioretention system designed to create a number of removal...
