The city's runoff isn't treated at the Wastewater Treatment Plant but instead is fed into area rivers, or injected in dry wells, which could threaten the aquifer.

The combination of Texas weather patterns and the landscape produce rapid-onset floods when Central and South Texas receive too much rain.

California fails to capture massive amounts of stormwater rushing off city streets and surfaces that could help supply water for millions of people a year, according to a new analysis released today.

“Slow it down, spread it out, and soak it in. Those are our three big-picture ideas. That’s what we want to do with stormwater runoff,” he said. “When we ‘soak it in,’ that becomes our water supply, ...

Researchers say if California could collect and treat more stormwater in cities, it could provide enough water to supply a quarter of the state’s urban population. Stay up-to-date with free briefings ...

The state’s annual runoff levels from urban areas could fill nearly 6 million football fields with foot-deep water, nearly twice the amount of Florida, its next-wettest rival. The potential annual ...

The California State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) has begun its process to develop a new statewide Urban Stormwater Infiltration Policy. The goal of the proposed new policy is to ...

Floods are fast becoming a defining challenge of 21st-century cities. As extreme rainfall events intensify and urban areas expand, the conventional approach of rapidly channeling water through ...

The City of Corpus Christi’s Public Works department is planning and designing channel improvements that will address flooding issues in the Oso Creek Basin through funding provided in a grant awarded ...

Green, brown, black, foamy. That’s how residents of Tijuana neighborhoods downhill from factories describe the water flowing down their streets into the Tijuana River watershed — and not just when ...