Just wanted to say a huge thank you to Amy (Birdie Bags) for my toiletries bag, I absolutely love it. My husband and I love travelling and my Birdie Bag is the ...perfect size to fit all my favourite bits in it for each trip, it's very well made and strong. It is for sure in the suitcase for our next trip.
Stormwater is rainwater plus anything the rain carries along with it. In urban areas, rain that falls on the roof of your house, or collects on paved areas like driveways, roads and footpaths is carried away through a system of pipes that is separate from the sewerage system. Unlike sewage, traditionally, stormwater has not been treated.
5 times more runoff than a woodland area of the same size? The most recent National Water Quality Inventory reports that runoff from urbanized areas is the leading source of water quality impairments to surveyed estuaries and the third-largest source of impairments to surveyed lakes. In urban and suburban areas, much of the land surface is covered by buildings and pavement, which do not allow rain and snowmelt to soak into the ground. Instead, most developed areas rely on storm drains to carry large amounts of runoff from roofs and paved areas to nearby waterways. The stormwater runoff carries pollutants such as oil,