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Storm Water Systems’ Bandalong Litter Trap Successfully Removes Litter from the Anacostia River Watershed
Prince George’s County Department of the Environment, Anacostia Riverkeeper, the Town of Mt. Rainier, and the Chesapeake Bay Trust worked together to install trash traps to help remove litter from the Anacostia River Watershed in Maryland. Our trap has helped to...
Chesapeake Bay Program Highlights “Cleaning up the ‘Forgotten River'”
(Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program) Watershed specialists Carlos Rich, top, and Dawayne Garnett from Groundwork Anacostia River D.C. work to empty a Bandalong Litter Trap at Kenilworth Park in northeast Washington, D.C., on Oct. 1, 2014. Ashley Duncan -...
Bandalong Trap on Anacostia River
Photo from: Year of the Anacostia We are proud to see another one of our Bandalong traps in action in Mt. Rainier, MD on the Anacostia River. It is the first of it's kind in Maryland! The Anacostia Riverkeeper, Mt. Rainier, Prince George's County, and Chesapeake Bay...
Storm Water Systems included in Georgia Water Coalition’s Clean 13 List
Storm Water Systems is honored to be chosen in this year's Georgia Water Coalition Clean 13. The Georgia Water Coalition’s inaugural Clean 13 Report highlights extraordinary efforts on the part of businesses, industries, local governments, non-profit organizations,...
Gainesville Bandalong Litter Trap Performing Better Than Expected After First Year
It was just a year ago when Storm Water Systems installed the Flat Creek Bandalong Litter Trap in Gainesville, Georgia (similar to the one pictured above). Not only has the device produced a steady flow of trash and recyclables, but officials are now looking at...
High Marks for SWS Trash Traps in Mobile
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management was impressed with the performance of Storm Water Systems' trash trap in Mobile. In a recent report the trap had captured 500 cubic yards of thrash. Check out the full details of the audit and read the original...
San Antonio River Authority chooses StormX Netting Trash Trap Over Other Trash Trap Devices
Vertex Construction, San Antonio, TX was awarded the project to install a StormX Weir Wall Trash Trap in Riverside Creek, inclusive of keying into the existing concrete lined channel and casting concrete piers to attach the 30” StormX units to. A second project...
How Much Trash is Too Much Trash? New Lawsuit Challenges the TMDL for the Anacostia River
A recent environmental lawsuit argues (article link below) that the total maximum daily load (TMDL) or the amount of pollutants that can be in the Anacostia River without causing environmental damage, was missing a correctly defined maximum. The TMDL looks not at how...
Paddle GA 2016: Friday (6/17), Saturday (6/18), and Sunday (6/19)
Paddlers Remove 800 lbs. of Trash from Georgia Rivers On the weekend of June 18th (6/17/2016-6/19/2016), over 430 river supporters came out for the 2016 Paddle Georgia trip led by the Georgia River Network. During the trip, over 800 lbs. of trash was collected and...
San Jose to Spend $100 Million on River Clean-Up Projects
City officials in San Jose agreed to spend more than $100 million on trash and pollution reduction over the next decade. Rivers and creeks in the San Fransisco Bay area are being over polluted by trash, sewage and harmful bacteria. The $100 million deal was part of a...
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