7+ hour, 50+ min ago  (138+ words) The new permanent pump station will replace four interim stormwater pumps at the recently completed tide gate, vastly expanding capacity to accommodate extreme rainfall events. Construction is set to begin in July on a seven-project program designed to improve stormwater…...

7+ mon, 1+ day ago  (577+ words) Efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States, date back to the 1980s, but pollution reduction targets did not become mandatory until 2010, and it wasn't until 2014 when all states in the watershed signed on to…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (244+ words) Modeled after Baltimore's Mr. Trash Wheel, this is the first floating trash-collecting water wheel on the West Coast. It's adapted to operate in the flow of San Diego Creek, which drains a 120-sq-mile watershed into Upper Newport Bay. The $5. 5-million…...