Tag: Peer Review
Floating Islands in Dubuque’s Bee Branch Creek
Located along the banks of the Mississippi River, the City of Dubuque, Iowa, USA, has a long history of dealing with flooding, particularly in...
Leveraging Solar Farms for Growth of Biocrusts
Deserts are commonly thought of as dusty places because they often are. An inherently sparse vegetation cover makes soils of arid lands more prone...
Hybrid Infrastructure: A Solution for Tomorrow’s Challenges
Gray, no, green! Green, no, gray! No, this is not the latest dress color controversy from nearly a decade ago. Instead, it is a...
Perimeter Control Alternatives to Silt Fence
As a strong physical barrier to water and sediment, silt fence has long been the default best management practice (BMP) where there is an...
Using Filtration in Basins to Meet Water Quality Requirements
In most areas, stormwater basins or ponds are the most common means of stormwater management. Basins have a proven history of being a cost-effective...
Accurate Chemical Dosing for Safe and Effective Stormwater Management
Chemical treatments, as authorized in the 2022 EPA Construction General Permit, have proven to be effective tools in both erosion and sediment control applications. Properly deployed, such treatments have consistently delivered positive results in removing sediment from stormwater runoff and also in making soils less vulnerable to erosion.
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...
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,...
