Sentences with phrase «stormwater management»

Bioswales along the perimeter of the building will carry water to a retention pond sitting outside the capped Brownfield site and serve as a water purification system for stormwater management.

Our rooflite soil systems are integral to these impressive projects, and we look forward to making a real impact on stormwater management in cities across the U.S. with our products.»

Combine all of that together, and you have a unique set of advantages that no other stormwater management tool can provide.

A new stormwater management system of filtration ponds and wetlands feeds Trout Brook.

We focus on sustainability goals for green roof projects and solving environmental issues, such as stormwater management and the urban heat island effect.

This is one of the most important parts of stormwater management on a green roof, and it's often one that gets overlooked.

Executive Director Alison Field - Juma states, «OARS looks forward to working with Mass Audubon to educate the public about how to create a more climate - resilient landscape on their own property through better stormwater management, pet waste disposal, and increasing native plantings.

Our business units provide solutions involving turnkey compliance assurance services, engineering sub-consultancy and cutting - edge stormwater management systems to all segments of the development, design and construction markets where those pursuits intersect with the rapidly evolving stormwater regulations.

«Reducing CO2 Emissions Is Not a Useful Substitute for Effective Stormwater Management How the CIC Is Working to Prevent EPA from Using Good Science»

Linda M. Dobson, Division Manager for Sustainable Stormwater Management at Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services

Together they mentored undergraduate students who synthesized the science and researched solutions about urban stormwater management in Prince George's County.

And when humans put things of value in the wrong spots and then fail to take adequate stormwater management measures, the bad results are just a matter of time.

But if it succeeds, it could help accelerate a new, green era of urban stormwater management around the U.S. and beyond.

MWRD has prepared and adopted the Cook County Stormwater Management Plan and the Cook County Watershed Management Ordinance.

Segin announced at last week's board meeting that permits had been secured from the Lake County Stormwater Management Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers after a lengthy delay.

The executive budget also increases investment in climate resiliency, including $ 170 million for stormwater management infrastructure.

Natural stormwater management refers to management approaches that accomplish one of three things:

In some ways, all our projects are stormwater management success stories because each green roof we've installed prevents water from reaching the ground.

Planning, designing, and constructing the local stormwater management projects that are needed will take many years and be very expensive.

A green roof, often called vegetated roofs or rooftop gardens, has become an increasingly popular choice for aesthetic and environmental reasons... For example rooftop gardens provide stormwater management, an appreciable benefit in cities with sewage overflow issues, while helping to cool the roof's surface as well as the air...

These low - impact development techniques can do a perfect job controlling stormwater, said Donald Carpenter, an associate professor of civil engineering and director of the Great Lakes Stormwater Management Institute at Lawrence Technical University in Southfield, Mich..

She said the park district is hoping to hear in the next two months whether its application for a $ 233,000 stormwater management grant from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's Illinois Green Infrastructure Grant program will be approved.

Plus: County Council continues stormwater management work; two county executive candidate forums scheduled this week

They can help with stormwater management and noise reduction.

Green stormwater management systems alone will save $ 1 billion, at a cost of about $ 0.15 less per gallon.

As they grow, local communities are increasingly concerned about development proposals on valuable natural resources as well as how to meet local water supply permitting and stormwater management regulations.

«Valuing preferences over stormwater management outcomes including improved hydrologic function,» co-authored by Amy Ando and her graduate student Catalina Londoño Cadavid, was published in a recent issue of Water Resources Research.

With a few exceptions, green roofs are often not listed as an independent item in environmental and sustainability documents, but go under stormwater management improvement measures or as part of a green building certification program.

The Houston area has had problems with floods since it was founded and has apparently not implemented the needed stormwater management measures and / or imposed building restrictions to alleviate these problems to the extent needed, let alone prevent them.

We are confident that our rooflite soil systems are the best available for a variety of reasons, but one of the primary ones is that we specifically engineer them to optimize stormwater management and support healthy plant growth.

I am an award winning designer of «integrated urban water supplies» — integrating stormwater management, water supply sources and sewage treatment and recycling to meet human needs efficiently while conserving downstream environments.

In cities, trees can help reduce the heat island effect and improve stormwater management.

The landscape provides water efficiency and stormwater management value.

Moreover, these communities are often subjected to urban flooding resulting from inadequate stormwater management or, worse still, infrastructure that combines stormwater with sewage overflows inundating people's homes and presenting risks to both health and property.

In addition to being on residential streets, Neighborhood Greenways are getting lots of traffic calming devices, such as speed bumps and the extended curbs and stormwater management planters that caused such fury when Portland first released its twenty - year bike plan earlier this year.

Amy Chomowicz, the Program Administrator for the Sustainable Stormwater Management Division and the Ecoroof Program with the City of Portland Environmental Services, came up with this idea for the panel several months ago, intended to spotlight greenroofs and walls and their energy implications.

«If this defendant had adopted reasonable stormwater management practices, the sewer water invasions suffered... would not have occurred,» the lawsuit alleges.

Some of the more impressive projects that use our rooflite soil systems have made important impacts on stormwater management.

Apart from air pollution reduction, other benefits of urban green infrastructure include urban heat island mitigation, the potential reduction in energy consumption, better stormwater management, and climate change mitigation.

I strongly recommend using our limited available resources for effective stormwater management and devoting none of them for CO2 emission controls.