The Stormwater Blog

There are certain hazards with any profession. For a stormwater engineer, mine takes the form of gentle teasing from friends and family as I stoop in parking

Hydrodynamic Separators (HDS) – often referred to as oil-grit separators, swirl devices, or vortex separators – are best management practices often used to

When it comes to using hydrodynamic separator (HDS) treatment devices, it is becoming commonplace to integrate them into storm sewer networks without worrying

With stormwater pollutant removal requirements increasing nationwide, the demand for robust filtration has also increased. Designing and specifying a properly

For this issue of the Stormwater Blog, I thought it would be beneficial to include a short video to better visually illustrate the durability and general

One could argue that plants are the most essential part of biofiltration systems such as bioretention, high performance biofilters, and rain gardens. However,

The International Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMP) Database project website (http://bmpdatabase.org) features a database that includes over 600 BMP

In a previous post (Don’t Bypass Good Design Part 1: Offline Vs. Online Diversion Structures), I wrote about bypass structures and argued that they deserved

Over the last 20 years of site-civil design, it has been interesting to see stormwater trends come and go. Some design methodologies have disappeared, only to

Months of design, pages of specifications, and tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars may go into the design of a single bioswale, filtration basin, or