Stormwater Files
Looking for top-secret info on storm sewers and stormwater? Pull files by clicking on the questions below.
- What is stormwater?
- What are storm sewers?
- What do storm sewers have to do with our lakes and rivers?
- What are sanitary sewers?
- What is water treatment?
- What is wastewater treatment, and why is it so gross?
- What is a storm drain?
- What do pavement, spies, and stormwater have to do with each other?
- How big are storm sewer pipes?
- How does rainwater move through storm sewers?
- Are storm sewers good places to go on vacation?
- How much rain moves through storm sewers?
- Why are manholes round?
- What kinds of pollution can get into our storm sewers?
- What are the litter bug blues?
- What does it mean to “drain the rain” and “lose the ooze?”
- How do people get rid of dangerous gunk around the house?
- What are detention ponds, and do they have anything to do with detention hall at school?
- Can grass blades guard our water?
- What do street sweepers do?
- How are erosion and stormwater pollution kind of like Austin Powers?
- Do sewers contain secret messages?