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News Feature: Bandalong on WSB TV
"Metro scientist fears PPE is ‘nail in the coffin’ for plastic pollution" on WSB TV - Bandalong trash traps are catching noticably more PPE (personal protective equipment) such as gloves, masks, and hand santizer bottles. The traps help to reduce the amount of plastic...
Introducing The Bandalong Bandit!
Our latest trash trap is designed to capture floating litter in smaller waterways! It's currently installed at Tanyard Creek and captured 25 cubic feet of trask in 10 days! This week alone it caught 9.4 pounds of litter that did NOT reach the oceans. Way to go...
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...
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