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stormwater

American  
[stawrm-waw-ter] / ˈstɔrmˌwɔ tər /

noun

  • stormwaters
    plural
  1. excess surface water produced by heavy rain.


adjective

  1. relating to the excess surface water produced by heavy rain.

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“It’s amazing to get all the new businesses back in, we’re doing great—and then everything starts flooding again because the stormwater drains are still clogged,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The project also includes a parking lot expansion, an expanded private sewage treatment plant and stormwater runoff mitigation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board voted to require shopping centers, warehouses, private hospitals and office complexes whose properties drain into the Dominguez and Los Cerritos channels to get stormwater permits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

The same pattern appeared in laboratory performance testing and in simulated stormwater collected from the experimental road sections.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

Officials said they believe that “the potential for any trace amounts of MMA to be found in the stormwater is low.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

It is also a flood control channel that is critical to protecting lives and properties when stormwaters surge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

“These people have lost everything. The stormwaters are still out there, swallowing our houses.”

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2023

Pittsburgh is adjusting construction codes so new buildings better handle stormwaters, for example.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 15, 2023

Several of the people who died in recent days were swept up in stormwaters.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 17, 2018

Matthew Marchetti was among thousands of Houstonians motoring through the turbulent, murky stormwaters of Hurricane Harvey as the sun set on August 27th, 2017.

From The Verge ● Apr. 17, 2018

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