To design infiltration basins or trenches for stormwater quality control, the catch basin requires a long and wide excavation and backfilled with gravel aggregate. Stored runoff water then infiltrates ...

A detenetion pond, or "detention basin," is a large, constructed depression in an urban landscape that receives and stores the stormwater runoff from large drainage areas. Detention basins usually ...

A sand filter, or "filtration basin", is a stormwater quality treatment system that works by using a two-component clarification system: the first is a sediment forebay for settling large particles ...

For example, UMass Lowell conducts annual parking lot sweeping and catch basin cleaning, has initiated several stormwater improvement projects and is also initiating several public involvement and ...

The Allegheny County Health Department will treat stormwater catch basins in the City of Pittsburgh and in the boroughs of McKees Rocks, Mount Oliver and Wilkinsburg for mosquitoes starting Monday ...

As a result, the ability of stormwater retention basins to meet any specified water quality standard cannot be calculated without actual measurement, i.e., engineering solutions do not predict the ...

Rainwater and snowmelt on Western's campus flow into the storm drain system through curb inlets and catch basins. All dirt ... No matter where the stormwater comes from on campus, it all ends up in ...

A stream reclamation project near a city park is among several Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority projects funded in part by ...

In February, Mount Vernon City Council members authorized Safety-service Director Tanner Salyers to bid and contract for Dan ...

As part of the “comprehensive initiative,” piping and catch basins in the area will also see upgrades aimed at improving stormwater drainage. Here’s what to expect, Bloomfield officials ...

including storm drains and stormwater catch basins around the beach town. The work, which is intended to improve ocean and beach water quality by capturing trash before it enters the sea ...

The estuary program wants to use the funds to place 60 of the traps in stormwater catch basins where litter and runoff often flow. They say this will protect critical habitats from pollution. "This ...