Tag: Environmental Connection
The Individual as a BMP
Significant time, money and energy is spent sharing ideas and experiences on the various structural best management practices (BMPs) in our industry, from new...
Innovative Hygroscopic Flood and Debris Resistant Material
Innovations result from solving problems big and small, and some work, others don’t. However, all ideas can lead to more and better innovations. In...
Microplastics Equal a Macro-Problem
Micro-plastics are everywhere. They’ve been discovered in the deepest ocean trench, the most remote arctic ice and, perhaps the most frightening place of all,...
Using Recycled Materials to Prevent Stormwater Pollution
Although innovation is often defined as a new idea or product, it can also be used to describe finding a new use for an...
Thinking of Forests and Beaches
This is the time of year when many folks are planning to head to the woods or the beach for a summer vacation, so...
Adaptive Strategies of Common Buttonbush at Developed Lake Margins
Impounded lakes provide essential water supply, flood control and hydropower to cities worldwide, but they also inundate habitat, lose water by seepage and evapotranspiration,...
Removing PFAS from Precipitation-Induced Runoff from Land Application Systems
Water used to wash clothes and dishes, take baths and showers, flush toilets and mix with cleaning products makes its way from houses to...
Enhancing Stormwater Management: The Automated Outlet Structure
Stormwater detention systems gained prominence in the mid to late 20th century as environmental awareness grew. In the United States, The Clean Water Act...
Effective Continuous Total Suspended Solids Measurement
Erosion control on construction sites in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city is an ongoing challenge. Auckland is on an isthmus with many coastal catchments...
Nuisance Flood Resolution and Private Landowners’ Challenges
In autumn 2013, a series of storms, including Hurricane Dorian, impacted a swath of the country from the Midwest to the East Coast. For...
