reducing stormwater pollution News
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EPA launches competition for college students to develop innovative approaches to stormwater management
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new design competition called the Campus RainWorks Challenge to encourage student teams on college and university campuses across the country to develop innovative approaches to stormwater management. Stormwater is a major cause of water pollution in urban areas in the U.S., impacting the health of people across the country as well as ...
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NACWA, NRDC Forward Statement Supporting Green Infrastructure to EPA
The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and 20 other groups representing conservation interests, public utilities, and state regulators have joined forces to promote the use of green infrastructure as an economical and efficient way to reduce the impacts of combined and sanitary sewer overflows and to control stormwater runoff. A ...
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EPA Kicks Off Campus RainWorks Challenge to Develop Innovative Approaches to Stormwater Management
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is launching its fourth annual Campus RainWorks Challenge for undergraduate and graduate students to design green infrastructure systems to reduce stormwater pollution and increase resiliency to climate change. Student teams, working with a faculty advisor, will propose green infrastructure projects for their campuses, demonstrating how managing ...
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EPA Kicks Off Third-Annual Campus RainWorks Challenge to Develop Innovative Approaches to Stormwater Management
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is launching its third-annual Campus RainWorks Challenge, a prize contest that engages college students in developing innovative green infrastructure systems to reduce stormwater pollution and build resilience to climate change. Through Campus RainWorks, teams of undergraduate and graduate students, working with a faculty advisor, develop a proposed green ...
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EPA Providing $3 Million to Advance Green Solutions for Reducing Philadelphia Stormwater Pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing up to $3 million in research grants for projects that will study the benefits of green techniques in controlling stormwater pollution in Philadelphia. The funds will help advance the city’s landmark Green City, Clean Waters plan. EPA’s “Science to Achieve Results” (STAR) program will fund major research projects ...
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Mass. Organizations receive total of $240,000 for EPA Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreements
EPA announced competitive cooperative agreements with 2 Massachusetts community-based organizations working to address environmental justice issues. The Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving (EJCPS) Cooperative Agreement Program provides funding for non-profit and tribal organizations to partner with stakeholders from across industry, government, and academia to develop and ...
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EPA awards nearly US$1.5m grant for water infrastructure and green innovations
EPA has awarded US$1,474,500 to the Kansas City, MO, Water Services Department to replace or relocate drinking water mains, sanitary sewers and stormwater sewers as part of the Beacon Hill Redevelopment Project, located west of Bruce R. Watkins Drive from 22nd Street to 27th Street in Kansas City, Mo. The project will include green stormwater infrastructure, such as an underground detention ...
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NACWA Welcomes EPA Green Infrastructure Efforts, Emphasizes Need for Funding
The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) is proud to celebrate Earth Day 2007 by forming a partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Low Impact Development (LID) Center, and the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators (ASIWPCA) to develop strategies for promoting the ...
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EPA Honors Missouri University of Science and Technology student and faculty team
EPA announced today that the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Mo., was awarded second prize among small institutions in EPA’s first-ever Campus RainWorks Challenge competition. Stormwater is one of the most widespread challenges to water quality in the nation. Large volumes of stormwater pollute our nation’s streams, rivers and lakes, posing a threat to human ...
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EPA Honors Kansas State University student and faculty team
EPA announced today that Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, Kan., was awarded honorable mention among larger institutions in EPA’s first-ever Campus RainWorks Challenge competition. Stormwater is one of the most widespread challenges to water quality in the nation. Large volumes of stormwater pollute our nation’s streams, rivers and lakes, posing a threat to human health and ...
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University of Maryland Named Winner of EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the University of Maryland as a winner of its third annual Campus RainWorks Challenge, a design competition created to engage college and university students in reinventing our water infrastructure. Student teams proposed innovative green infrastructure designs to reduce stormwater pollution and develop sustainable communities. Stormwater ...
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3 Mass. real estate development and construction companies fined for clean water violations (MA)
Subject to court approval, three related real estate development, construction and engineering companies will pay a $150,000 penalty for illegally discharging polluted stormwater from multiple Mass. construction sites. In addition the companies will perform a Supplemental Environmental Project (“SEP”) valued at approximately $300,000 which will further reduce stormwater pollution to ...
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EPA Honors Winners of 2013 Campus RainWorks Challenge
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the four winners of its second annual Campus RainWorks Challenge, a design challenge created to engage college and university students in reinventing our water infrastructure and developing innovative green infrastructure systems to reduce stormwater pollution and build resilience to climate change. Stormwater is one of the most ...
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EPA to recognize recovery act water re-use project in Raleigh, North Carolina
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Regional Administrator Stan Meiburg will join state and local officials in Raleigh, NC to recognize the city’s Water Re-use green infrastructure project. The project, estimated to cost approximately US$465,735, is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment (ARRA), through the State Revolving Fund. EPA will recognize Raleigh’s ...
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EPA recognizes recovery act water re-use project in Raleigh, North Carolina
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Regional Administrator Stan Meiburg joined state and local officials in Raleigh, NC to recognize the city’s Water Re-use green infrastructure project. This project, estimated to cost approximately US$465,735, is partially funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), through the State Revolving Fund. “This ...
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EPA launches new strategy to promote use of green infrastructure for environmental and economic benefits
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new strategy to promote the use of green infrastructure by cities and towns to reduce stormwater runoff that pollutes our nation’s streams, creeks, rivers, lakes and coastal waters. Green infrastructure decreases pollution to local waterways by treating rain where it falls and keeping polluted stormwater from entering sewer ...
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Stormwater pollution tackled to improve water quality in Charles River, MA
EPA is taking strong action to enact the next generation of environmental protection for the Charles River by tackling pollution problems caused by stormwater. Specifically, EPA today announced a targeted effort to apply more stringent controls on stormwater pollution in the Charles River watershed, where stormwater containing high levels of phosphorus is a chief culprit in dramatic algae blooms ...
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UNH Stormwater Center Awarded Nearly $1M from EPA for Philadelphia Green Infrastructure Project
The University of New Hampshire is one of only five universities or colleges selected to share grant funding to study green infrastructure practices in urban areas, using Philadelphia as a pilot project. Further, due to the UNH Stormwater Center’s significant expertise on urban stormwater issues, UNH is the only institution outside of Philadelphia area selected in this program. UNH is ...
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Agreement Reached with the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas to Improve Sewer and Stormwater Systems
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the Unified Government of Wyandotte Co. and Kansas City, Kan., has agreed to a settlement to address unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage and to reduce pollution levels in urban stormwater. The settlement, lodged in federal court in Kansas City, Kan. requires the Unified Government to ...
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NACWA applauds forward-thinking Philadelphia-EPA partnership
The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) will join the Philadelphia Water Department, a NACWA member, on April 10 as they sign an historic partnership agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that will allow the City to use green infrastructure to achieve its watershed management goals and to improve water quality. The Green City Clean Waters Partnership ...
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