Archive for February 2018
Don’t Stink Up Your Construction Site!
Although Portable toilets are not anyone’s favorite part of working outdoors in areas with no readily available plumbing, there is no doubt that life would be miserable without them. You don’t look at a port-a-potty and think, “Wow, I’m sure glad that portable toilet is around!â€, but they have several benefits: they are environmentally friendly,…
Read MoreSponge Cities: The Future of Stormwater Management
In the wake of serious flooding that killed 79 people in the Chinese city of Beijing in 2012, the country did a serious re-assessment of its drainage situation. Poor urban planning in the name of cost and appearance caused a series of decisions that saw major flooding with even a single heavy rain event. The…
Read MoreA Matter of Life and Death in the Gulf
Today, we take a look a bigger picture problem: The Gulf of Mexico. More specifically, the giant dead zone stretching through a large part of the Gulf of Mexico. A staggering 41% of North America drains through the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico. The “Dead Zone†as it’s called stretches across 7,000 square…
Read MoreWhat’s in the Water?
Although stormwater management is important for helping to preserve the environment and valuable habitat from different types of pollution, we rarely think of the impact on human health. The reality is that storm drains carry whatever ends up in them throughout large interconnected water systems. Through storm drains, to ponds, to streams, into larger lakes…
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