IECA News Center

We are excited to introduce IECA Connect, our new online community networking tool for members to collaborate, ask questions, share ideas, seek recommendations and...

By Julie Morelli, P.G., REM, CPESC The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program provides a regulatory framework to authorize the discharge of stormwater from...

Collaborative Approach Leads to Success By Dylan Drudul, CPESC Keeping a project on schedule, under budget and safe are some of the most important goals a...

Overcoming Challenging Weather and Terrain By Hannah Giess The Ara Tūhono–Pūhoi to Warkworth Project is an 18.5-km motorway extension currently being built north of Auckland, New...

By Dwayne Stenlund, MS, CPESC, MnDOT It is clear from predictive models and field experience that the majority of sediments are lost in the wettest...

By Michael A. Perez, Ph.D., CPESC, Auburn University The IECA Standards and Practices (S&P) Committee has developed new performance-based standards for the design, installation and...

By J. Blake Whitman, Ph.D., PE, CPESC; Michael A. Perez, Ph.D., CPESC; Jaime C. Schussler MS.; Lan Liu, Ph.D., LEED GA, EI Editor’s Note: This...

By Nancy Schumm, PWS, CPMSM, CPESC In the 1970’s, there was a children’s animated program called Schoolhouse Rock.1 The program covered a variety of topics...

by Judith M. Guido For those of you who have read my column over the years, you know that the four foundational building blocks of...

By Rich McLaughlin, Ph.D. While many parts of the world have a long history of fire as part of the ecosystem, climate change appears to...

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...

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...

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...

I think there is one thing the entire global community agrees on: The year 2020 was a statistical outlier, one that was significantly different...

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...