Managing Storm Water Runoff With Underground Chambers   Water & Wastes Digest July 2003
Effectively managing storm water runoff from urban development, while at the same time designing a cost effective solution for the developer, is an increasing challenge for the engineering community.

Unique Solution To Stormwater Problem Combines Recreational Use, Storm Runoff   Water & Wastes Digest July 2003
Local engineering consultant W.K. Dickson & Co., Inc. (WKD), working with Charlotte Storm Water Services (CSWS), developed an initiative that would attenuate or "slow down" runoff prior to it reaching the overburdened culverts. The results of the WKD plan would also allow funds earmarked for culvert upgrades to be used for projects that would not have been realized otherwise.

E. Coli   Water Quality Products May 2003   Danielle Duclos
This article provides a general overview of E. coli and drinking water as well as current and emerging monitoring and decontamination technologies.
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Chesapeake Seals the Deal   Water Engineering & Management May 2003   Watertight Storm Sewer Group
The City of Chesapeake, Va. is located in the region called Hampton Roads, the 27th largest metro area in the country with more than 1.5 million residents. With an annual rainfall of approximately 48", its designers must contend with the prospects of determining where 294 billion gallons of water will go. A large share of this rainfall will find its way into the storm sewers. Last year, the City Council appropriated an extra $467,600 for contract cave-in repairs. The City of Chesapeake has recognized this problem and is developing a program to address it.
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Flow Monitoring Springboards City to System-wide Sewer Management Solution   Water & Wastes Digest April 2003
The forward-looking Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSDGC) saw a dynamic model of most of Cincinnati's collection system as the tool that would support improved sewer system management, including sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) and combined sewer overflow (CSO) control, planning, and operations.

Bringing Home the Bacon   Water Engineering & Management February 2003
Moving water may be an ancient practice, but that did not keep bright engineering minds from developing a more efficient way to do it. Balancing an aggressive, stormwater pipeline design concept with a conservative approach to prove its performance, the result was a new engineered stormwater system. A new, more economical system design justified discarding the old plans and redrawing them with HDPE pipe.
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County Installs Stormwater Monitoring With Real-time Reporting   Water & Wastes Digest February 2003   Gustavo Diaz
Holder Construction, Inc. of Atlanta was contracted to expand Gwinnett County's Cultural and Civic Center in Georgia. According to EPA's regulations and state laws, projects such as this require a NPDES Construction Activity permit.To address the monitoring side of this compliance issue, Holder Construction regularly uses traditional stormwater monitoring systems. However, in this instance, they decided to implement both a traditional system and a newer system, created through a partnership of WRT and NIVIS LLC. Holder Construction did so in order to compare results and operational efficiencies between both types of units.

Lincoln Memorial Avoids Flooding With Stormwater Engineering Software   Water & Wastes Digest February 2003
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., attracts millions of visitors each year and is one the most high profile landmarks in the United States. When it came time to rehabilitate the surrounding stormwater system, StormCAD® was the choice for CH2M Hill and the Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT).

Heavy Duty Drainage Pumps Rescue Stormwater Flooded Quarry   Water & Wastes Digest February 2003
Pumping around the clock at 10,000 gpm, two 94hp submersible, portable dewatering pumps manufactured by Pumpex, Inc. of Somerville, N.J., drained turbulent, overflowing stormwater to save a limestone quarry from extensive equipment damages and potential profit loss caused by severe flooding.

The Challenges of Stormwater Management   Water Engineering & Management November 2002   Bryan A. Coppes
Stormwater management and its role in the larger challenge of preservation of water quality around the world is an evolving issue. As commercial development continues at record levels, both the quantity of runoff and water quality are issues that need to be looked at carefully. The engineering community is being pushed to design new solutions that keep groundwater and surface water ecology safe and that also protect development economics.
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Are You Ready for CMOM?   Operations & Maintenance Supplement November 2002
CMOM is the acronym for the new Capacity, Management Operation and Maintenance program that soon will be enacted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In its simplest form, it has to do with the operation of sanitary sewers to prevent overloading of waste treatment plants and the overflow prevention of sanitary sewage into lakes and streams.

Concord, N.C. - A Proactive Approach to Beginning a CMOM-Based Program   Water Engineering & Management August 2002   Ron Geiger, PE, and Todd Schuster
The federal government is in the process of establishing a CMOM philosophy for wastewater collection and treatment facilities that hinges on an aggressive, proactive approach, calling for utilities to act like investigative reporters rather than firefighters. Eventually, utility providers will have to follow federal CMOM guidelines, and states may establish similar guidelines.
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Stormwater Retrofitting to Protect Drinking Water Reservoirs from the Impacts of Urban Runoff - Part 2   Water Engineering & Management July 2002   James D. Benson, AICP, and Melissa Beristain
The Kensico Reservoir Stormwater Management Program is designed to reduce fecal coliform bacteria and turbidity delivered to the reservoir by controlling and treating stormwater. The first phases of the project, assessment of the watershed, site selection and the screening and design of stormwater control and treatment facilities, were completed in July 1998. Facility construction began in the spring of 1999 and completed early in 2001. DEP has committed to monitoring and evaluating facility performance and maintaining the facilities.
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Submersible and Trailer and Vertical Pumps Solve Stormwater Problems   Water & Wastes Digest July 2002
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: To transfer stormwater from a creek to an adjacent river during periods of high water during storms and spring thawing.

Stormwater Treatment: A Look at Various Methods, Hydrodynamic Separators   Water & Wastes Digest July 2002
Since the passing of the Clean Water Act, the industry has made great strides in improving the quality of point source discharges to the environment. As treatment technologies continue to improve, non-point source pollution becomes a more significant contributor to environmental degradation.

Small Site Dictates Stormwater Treatment Solution in Mich. Redevelopment   Water & Wastes Digest July 2002
Ann Arbor, a densely populated university town of 180,000, has been seeing an increase in urban redevelopment pressure in recent years as developable land has become scarce and land values have risen. The city of Ann Arbor has worked closely with the County Drain Commissioner’s office to use this redevelopment as an opportunity to improve the quality of stormwater flowing into the county drains.

Meters - High-accuracy Stormwater, CSO Flow Monitoring   Water & Wastes Digest July 2002
Ultrasonic transit-time flowmeters can be used to good effect for meeting specific site monitoring and documentation requirements by providing highly accurate and continuous flowrate measurement during dry- and wet-weather conditions.

Stormwater Retrofitting to Protect Drinking Water Reservoirs from the Impacts of Urban Runoff - Part 1   Water Engineering & Management June 2002   James D. Benson, AICP, CPESC, and Melissa Beristain, CPESC
This paper summarizes the stormwater management element of the program and its control of the two key pollutants regulated by the SWTR: fecal coliform bacteria and turbidity that are conveyed to the reservoir by stormwater.
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The Stormwater Challenge   Water Quality Products February 2001   Greg Gilles, Apyron Technologies, Inc.
Apyron Technologies, Inc., a material synthesis company in Atlanta, and Keystone Environmental, an environmental engineering consulting company in Vancouver, B.C., recently worked together to launch an arsenic remediation project for J.H. Baxter, one of the nation’s leading wood preservation companies.
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Trends in Sewer Overflow Management   Water Engineering & Management February 2001   Hubert Fleming, Ph.D., and David Slack
In this era of environmental stewardship, large cities and counties are faced with increasing pressure not only to deliver safe potable water supplies but also to treat combined and stormwater flows.
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Roundtable Discussion: E. coli (Escherichia coli)   Water Quality Products November 2000   Wendi Hope King
Recent outbreaks of E. coli have brought consumer’s attention to their drinking water. Understanding its source, regulations and prevention will be key to combating this waterborne illness.

Updated Sewage System Gives Tourists a Lift   Water Engineering & Management September 2000   Cecil Coombs, P.E.
Sewage overflow caused by the influx of visitors during tourist season prompted one community to improve its collection and treatment system.

Water Resources Management in Grand Turk - Part 2   Water Engineering & Management April 2000   Fernando Pérez Monteagudo and María Fernandez Miquel
The first part of this article traced water resources development, its quality and the demand in Grand Turk. It appeared in the March issue.

Developers and Community Officials Work to Solve Wastewater Issues and Drinking Water Problems in Santa Cruz Bolivia   Water Engineering & Management March 2000
The problem of wastewater treatment is increased by the recent heavy commercial and residential development in Santa Cruz.

Stormwater Management: An Environmental Challenge Beyond the 20th Century   Water Engineering & Management November 1997   Michael Schaefer
How can increased stormwater runoff caused by expanding construction projects be controlled and managed?

City Develops System to Prioritize Its Stormwater Capital Projects   Water Engineering & Management December 1995   Angela R. Tickle, P.E.
The end result of a prioritization system was a process designed to minimize subjective factors and rely on rational, equitable and consistent methods.

Issues in Managing Urban Stormwater Runoff Quality   Water Engineering & Management May 1995   Dr. G. Fred Lee and Dr. Anne Jones-Lee
The last of three articles addressing urban stormwater runoff.

Implementing Urban Stormwater Runoff Quality Management Regulations   Water Engineering & Management April 1995   Dr. G. Fred Lee and Dr. Anne Jones-Lee
The second of three articles addressing urban stormwater runoff.

Stormwater Runoff Management: The Need for a Different Approach   Water Engineering & Management March 1995   Dr. G. Fred Lee and Dr. Anne Jones-Lee
Part I of a three-part series examines why urban stormwater runoff regulations should be different than those covering industrial and municipal wastewater.