Sentences with phrase «stormwater runoff systems»

Nor is there enough public finance available to maintain the existing «gray infrastructure» — like dams, stormwater runoff systems, and treatment plants.

Not exact matches

Under the EPA's current permitting system, builders must limit stormwater runoff to the «maximum extent practicable.»

To distinguish between water quality impacts from groundwater and stormwater runoff from the St. Lucie Estuary versus other impacts directly related to periodic discharges from Lake Okeechobee, Lapointe and his collaborators conducted a comprehensive analysis of the interactions of septic systems, groundwater, and surface waters.

Similarly, stormwater runoff, decreased evaporative cooling, and building damage from soil contraction and expansion are just a subset of how precipitation impacts will affect human systems.

Stormwater runoff that overloads urban sewer systems during extreme events adds to increased levels of toxic substances, sewage, and bacteria in the Great Lakes, affecting water quality, beach health, and human well - being.

Green roofs reduce stormwater runoff, filter out water and air pollutants, moderate the urban heat - island effect, add green space to the built environment, shade and insulate rooftops to improve buildings» thermal performance (thereby reducing energy use and costs), and extend the service life of structural roof systems.

Green infrastructure promotes the natural movement of water by collecting and managing stormwater runoff from streets, sidewalks, parking lots and rooftops and directing it to engineered systems that typically feature soils, stones, and vegetation.

This process prevents stormwater runoff from entering the City's sewer systems.

In New York City, Green Infrastructure describes an array of practices that use or mimic natural systems to manage urban stormwater runoff.

Subsurface Detention Systems with infiltration capability provide temporary storage of stormwater runoff underground.

But Homestead Economics has a neat video of their rainwater garden system, which collects stormwater runoff from a long dirt driveway, diverts it to carefully designed grow beds surrounded by a berm, and then collects any excess water in a retention pond for future irrigation.

Fortron Industries, DAK Americas, Invista, and the New Hanover County landfill all reported stormwater overwhelming their treatment and storage systems, with some reporting the runoff escaping into the wetlands and waters of the Cape Fear River.