2018 Hurricane Season is Here!
Those of us who live in Florida are used to the onslaught of weather that comes with the beginning of every Hurricane Season. The rains ramp up, and w
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Turbidity Measurements – What do they mean?
Turbidity, simply put, is the measure of cloudiness in a liquid. For our purposes, this liquid is generally water. It is one of the most basic qualiti
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Impacts of Dewatering
Dewatering is a process that often must be done with projects that require excavation. It is the process of removing and relocating groundwater to all
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What the Flock? Flocculants use in Erosion Control!
One of the biggest problems with water turbidity is also, coincidentally, its smallest problem. The size of a sediment particle is what makes it easie
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Keeping the pests out of Stormwater
One often overlooked part of stormwater management is human health and prosperity. We may not immediately think of storm drains and retention ponds wh
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Blanket your site for Erosion Control!
As we start ramping up for the rainy season in Central Florida, it’s important to consider things that may not have seemed like an issue for the pas
Tags: #SWPPPlife, contamination, heavymetal, NPDES, stormwater, SWPPP
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Heavy Metal In the water
The introduction of heavy metals into water systems can result in both environmental issues as well as those that will directly impact human health. T
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Sponge 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
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A 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
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What’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
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