Stormwater Management

Stormwater Management

• EPA Issues Permit for Stormwater Discharges from Construction Sites

  New permit includes more protections for waterways, shaped by important public and stakeholder feedback.

   

• EPA Pushing for New Construction Stormwater Rule

  The Environmental Protection Agency has created a new National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System "general permit" for stormwater runoff from construction sites.

   

• EPA Memo Pushes for Monitoring Requirements in Stormwater Discharge Permits

  AGC recently joined with a coalition of industrial, municipal and construction-related groups focused on Clean Water Act issues to respond to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new memorandum recommending the use of numeric effluent limits “where feasible.”

   

• East Side CSO Tunnel

  In an ongoing effort to clean up their main waterway, the Williamette River, the city of Portland authorized construction on three new shafts as part of the East Side Tunnel Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) project. The goal is to reduce water and sediment pollution, improve watershed health, and...

   

• Economic Recovery Resource Center

  Almost 20% of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be spent on improving the nation's infrastructure. Scroll down for details on how much is available and under what conditions. We're updating this page as information becomes available, so check back often.

   

• EPA Proposes Rule Imposing Stricter Stormwater Standards

   

• City of Manhattan Beach Goes Green with Pervious Concrete

  Manhattan Beach is a community committed to helping the environment. For years the city has offered free waste reduction programs such as composting classes and recycling collection. Now they have taken another significant step toward protecting the earth's resources by installing pervious concrete...

   
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  The Trickle-Down Effect

  Here's a little-known fact about Chicago: The Midwest city has more miles of alleys—1900 in all—than any other city in the world. That's the equivalent surface area of five midsized airports.That's also 3500 acres of impermeable surface in a city that's committed to going green.

   
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  The State of Our Country's Infrastructure

  The price tag to upgrade our infrastructure and make it safe is considerable—much more than the war in Iraq is costing. The only way to raise this kind of money is to increase taxes and politicians won't do that until after the next election. So what is likely to happen and what is the role that...

   
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  Building a Better Wastewater Plant

  Sewer overflows had become so common in Nashua, N.H., that city officials had to turn to an engineering firm, Metcalf & Eddy, to solve the Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) problems that have plagued the city in recent years. After monitoring the city's sewer system before, during, and after rainstorms...

   
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  Polyurea to the Rescue

  During the testing phase of constructing circular grit chambers in a wastewater treatment plant in Ft. Wayne, Ind., crews discovered serious leakage problems.