WEF Highlights

Building infrastructure to handle stormwater no longer needs to focus on gray, it also can be green. To provide incentives for greening open spaces, streets, roofs, pavement, and bioretention facilities as a way to manage stormwater, DC Water (Washington, D.C.) launched the Green Infrastructure Challenge in April 2013. In January 2014, the utility announced seven […]

The playground at Public School 261 in Brooklyn, N.Y. has received a green makeover. Reducing the amount of asphalt in playgrounds allows the city to reduce runoff and overflows. The playground now features a garden, trees, an outdoor classroom, and open play area. Photo courtesy of Joan Keener, The Trust for Public Land (San Francisco). […]

In June, the Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) hosted the Collection Systems 2013 Conference at the Sacramento (Calif.) Convention Center to educate water professionals about improving the effectiveness of combined and separate sanitary sewer collection systems. Attendees learned about different methods for planning, design, and construction and explored alternative delivery methods. “Attendees were able […]

The Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) provided comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after the WEF Government Affairs Regulatory Subcommittee reviewed EPA’s national enforcement initiatives for fiscal years 2014 to 2016. WEF supports the agency’s six initiatives, especially the first, which addresses municipal wet weather water-pollution sources. In the comments, WEF applauds […]

The Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) is updating the publication,  Risk-Based Planning for Wet Weather. This update of the 2006 WEF Guide to Managing Peak Wet Weather Flows in Municipal Wastewater Collection and Treatment Systems will serve as a fundamental framework for sanitary sewer overflows/peak flows topics and will reflect the best current thinking, […]