Tag: Drainage
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A Brief History of Florida Stormwater Regulation (Part 2)
As population grew, problems arose, and Florida said: regulation of stormwater quality and quantity is needed on broader scales. Some of the earliest water management legislation began with the General Drainage Act of 1913 and the Pollution of Waters Act of 1913. Big year for regulations, as it goes. These early regulations grew out of…
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What is ‘stormwater’?
“You mean… rain?” Stormwater is a weird word. A conjunction of “storm” and “water” immediately implies that we’re talking about rainfall; however, stormwater is a technical term that is used to describe all rainfall that hits the land surface and begins to flow some other way. When we talk about stormwater in a technical sense,…