Tag: stormwater
Tis the reporting season!
Tis the semi-annual monitoring report season! Many facilities with KPDES general wastewater discharge permits and/or with air permits have semi -annual reports due on July 28 (DMRs) or July 30 (SAMRs). KPDES Discharge Monitoring Reporting (DMRs) for general industrial stormwater permit KYR00 have a semi-annual reporting deadline of January 28 and July 28. To help […]
MSD Has a New Director
The Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) has named a new executive director. Tony Parrot, formerly of the executive director of Metropolitan Sewer District for Greater Cincinnati, has accepted the position. MSD is a quasi-governmental agency that serves the Louisville community through wastewater collection and treatment, stormwater drainage and management and flood protection. In the past […]
Milwaukee Thinks Outside the Box for Stormwater Control
Milwaukee has a combined sewer system where stormwater runoff and sewage is collected in the same pipe. Milwaukee has evaluated the feasibility of using uninhabited houses to temporarily store combined sewage and stormwater in the basement following rain events. The basement locations will be empty houses already scheduled to be razed. City officials were looking […]
SMG attends MSD Stormwater Training
I had the pleasure of attending Construction Field Day training presented by Louisville/Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) this week. Sessions focused on topics such as industrial stormwater inspections, hazardous materials use and spill prevention planning (HMPC Plans), Louisville’s consent decree and MS4 permit compliance requirements, green best management practices (BMPs), the qualified post construction […]
Permeable Pavement: a Tool for Low Impact Development
Low impact development or (LID) is an approach to development of land that works to preserve existing natural conditions as much as possible in an effort to minimize imperviousness while retaining functional site drainage of stormwater. Popular LID practices include the use of rain gardens, rain barrels, vegetated rooftops, and permeable pavements. The design of […]