The Trust has advocated effectively for a Green Streets approach to managing storm water runoff.
So today, many cities are looking for more innovative, cost-effective approaches to managing their polluted storm water.
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Workers have pumped out about 1 million gallons of storm water, but the aquarium's underground passageways remain unusable.
The bay, which has deteriorated because of overdevelopment and storm water runoff, was battered further by Hurricane Sandy.
What we are trying to do is champion the policies behind storm water.
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Unfortunately, these systems frequently overflow, and so untreated sewage and storm water runoff are expelled into surrounding water bodies.
The cause of much of the wastewater spills is storm water overflows, said the Congressional Budget Office .
Many cities in the Northeast and Great Lakes region collect storm water to clean it in wastewater treatment centers.
Dawn Harrington, project manager, said the work will allow sewers to hold more storm water and would help protect the environment.
Also in Virginia a federal judge ruled that the EPA did not have the authority to declare storm water a pollutant.
There is the rubbish that comes from the land, delivered by run-off, storm water drains and the wind-blown rubbish that people leave behind.
The South Bronx Greenway will eventually be an eleven-mile network of bike and pedestrian pathways, she explains, complete with storm water management and recreational systems.
However, on January 3, a federal court ruled that that the EPA could not treat storm water as a pollutant under the Clean Water Act.
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"We need government bodies to accept certain civil engineering benefits, such as storm water amelioration, like the Germans, Austrians and Swiss do, " he told CNN.
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Instead, the living roof acts as a natural filtration system, with excess storm water collecting in retention ponds before flowing into the nearby Rouge River.
Since the streets of New Orleans sit mostly below sea level, it would very likely become a satellite submarine as the storm water surges into the city.
The students designed a progressive urban environment that can handle large amounts of storm-water runoff by using green technologies and major roadways as storm-water filtration and transport surfaces.
At the same time, EPA is making updates that will allow cities greater flexibility to take advantage of creative financing options for storm water infrastructure, including private funding.
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In January of this year, a judge in Virginia ruled against the EPA, which had arrogated to itself the power to regulate unpolluted storm water that runs into a creek.
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Storm water is a growing problem in cities.
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For example, today the Rockefeller Foundation announced it will provide seed money for a new RE.invest initiative, a public-private partnership that will help selected cities to leverage private financing for sustainable storm water and sewer systems.
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Officials feared the brackish storm water that poured into tunnels could corrode vulnerable signal and switching systems, complicating the task of reopening a bus and rail system that ferries 8.5 million passengers on a typical workday.
Downtown subway entrances choked with storm water.
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For example, last week the Rockefeller Foundation announced it will provide seed money for a new RE.invest initiative, a public-private partnership that will help up to eight cities leverage private financing for sustainable storm water and sewer systems.
Officials feared the brackish storm water that poured into subway tunnels and onto tracks could corrode vulnerable signal and switching systems, adding to the time workers will need to reopen the MTA's full system, which ferries 8.5 million passengers on a typical workday.
"As much as they can, they can make sure there is an environment where the utility workers can get to the places they need to do the work, " he said, whether that means helping drain tunnels of storm water or clearing roads of debris.
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Zoning laws would be rewritten so that, over time, large parcels of abandoned land would be converted into landscaped open space networks that would capture and clean storm water, improve air quality, and clean contaminated soil as well as provide new recreational opportunities like bike paths and hiking trails and create habitats for local wildlife and migrating birds.
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This cover acts as a giant sponge, absorbing rainfall and reducing polluted storm-water runoff.
There's also a section devoted to "green" roofs, both literally and figuratively, those planted to reduce New York's "heat-island" effect and storm-water runoff.
During the storm, water filled the basement of the Immigration Building, and there was also significant damage to mechanical systems and the building's fire suppression system.
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