Tag: IECA
Mulch BMP Reduces Costs and Environmental Impact
Alabama Power Company in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, is taking the use of vegetative debris from land clearing — trees, bushes and other woody refuse...
Drones: A Practical Investment for MS4 Programs
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA, is a designated Phase I Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) with a population of approximately 200,000 residents. The...
Reducing Nutrient Loading to the Chesapeake Bay
Maryland’s Conowingo Dam was constructed in 1928 and is the most downstream of the four hydroelectric dams located on the lower Susquehanna River. The...
Mitigation Banking for Ecological Uplift and Responsible Project Management
Henrico County, part of Virginia’s Capital Region and the Chesapeake Bay watershed, is home to more than 330,000 residents and an active economy. Henrico...
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,...
