Kansas City Will Build Rain Gardens With $1.47 Million
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, August 18, 2008 (ENS) – For a project that features green stormwater infrastructure, such as an underground detention basin, bio-retention cells and rain gardens, the U.S. EPA has awarded $1.47 million to the Kansas City, Missouri Water Services Department. The funding will be spent to replace or relocate stormwater sewers, sanitary sewers, [...]
Read More »Iowa Cities Face Costly Wastewater System Upgrades
BURLINGTON, Iowa, February 24, 2008 (ENS) – The City of Burlington discharged an estimated two million gallons of untreated wastewater mixed with storm runoff water to the Mississippi River after a pipe became plugged last week. City officials are unsure of when the discharge began, but they discovered the plugged pipe on Tuesday in the [...]
Read More »Colorado Firm Cut Stream Channel Through City Illegally
DENVER, Colorado, January 20, 2008 (ENS) – Acting without a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit, a contractor excavated a new stream channel on open space property belonging to the City of Lafayette, Colorado without the city’s permission or knowledge. Now, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Kenneth L. Schell and Twin Peaks Excavating, [...]
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