Climate predictions suggest the mid-Atlantic will face more frequent and severe rainstorms in coming years.
Climate predictions suggest the mid-Atlantic will face more frequent and severe rainstorms in coming years. Which leads to the question of what to do with all that additional rainwater. Throughout the region, many places are already facing more powerful floods that overwhelm the pipes and drainage systems built to handle stormwater.
Researchers from University of Maryland surveyed a variety of stakeholders and found that everyone agrees the old centralized way of managing stormwater needs to change, but their attitudes about how and who is responsible fall into three divergent camps. Two groups felt stormwater posed a public threat but disagreed about who was responsible for mitigation programs on private lands. The third group saw stormwater as an underutilized resource that should be managed with technology.
Read more at: University of Maryland
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