by Maryella Begley-Gamon, PE | Nov 7, 2024 | Blogs
Drinking water comes from either surface water (rivers, lakes, reservoirs, etc.) or groundwater aquifers. Surface water and groundwater are not isolated systems. Both systems are recharged by stormwater either absorbed into the ground and eventually reaching the...
by Maryella Begley-Gamon, PE | Nov 7, 2024 | Blogs
So this is going to be a little series starting 2 weeks ago and going through the 7 most polluted bodies of water in the US. Since I didn’t start in order, I am not going to follow the order of the list in the original article. One of the other bodies of water...
by Maryella Begley-Gamon, PE | Nov 7, 2024 | Blogs
Did you see my post last Tuesday? I ended that post with a list of the 7 most polluted bodies of water in the US, and I was surprised that I had to look a couple of them up…and I was sad to see several of the ones I knew on the list…but that is for another day....
by Maryella Begley-Gamon, PE | Nov 7, 2024 | Blogs
The creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Clean Water Act (CWA) was prompted in part by the public outrage over the Ohio’s Cuyahoga River erupting into flames on 13 separate occasions from 1869-1969. A March 1970 Time Magazine article described...
by Maryella Begley-Gamon, PE | Nov 7, 2024 | Blogs
I was listening to a recent episode of the Stormwater World Podcast in which host Ty Garmon was interviewing Barry Fagan, PE, PLS, Owner and Vice President of Fagan, LLC, where he was discussing that last year was the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Clean Water...
