Washington, D.C. is another U.S. city where federal Clean Water Act mandates are “blowing a hole in municipal budgets,” reported Circle of Blue, http://www.circleofblue.org an organization that provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
“If not for a few well-placed bolts, segments of the Washington, D.C., sewer system would have blown apart at the seams recently during fierce rainstorms and subsequent flooding in the nation’s capital,” writes Circle of Blue’s Brett Walton.
Federal Clean Water Act mandates are tapping out municipalities like Washington, D.C., and cities are looking hard at new alternatives to failing infrastructure.
The new thinking on sewer infrastructure includes natural systems, called “green infrastructure,” https://troutheadwaters.com/clubecoblu/?p=3352 to take advantage of the storage capacity in soils and wetlands; and sponge-like paving materials, which, unlike non-porous cement and asphalt, soak up rainwater.
