stormwater
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stormwaters
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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
She said “demand for filtration is skyrocketing,” with cleansed stormwater “the biggest source of new water supply.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 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
“There are just so many lovely ways to create urban form that also serves as stormwater management,” Coffee says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
“Commercial properties right now are not regulated under any stormwater permit,” said Sean Bothwell, executive director of California Coastkeeper Alliance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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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