The first sewers were built in the 1880s primarily for storm water drainage.

Nearly one third of the building's site is landscaped to reduce heat island effects and storm water drainage.

Storm water drainage is directly provided by the municipalities.

In class projects they study how the building design can reduce storm water drainage and improve water quality.

Integrated storm water drainage and treatment/re-use as part of the urban landscape.

The first goal for this plan is it to improve storm water drainage and land management in preparation for flooding.

In 1990, an ambitious plan was drawn to overhaul the city's storm water drainage system which had never been reviewed in over 50 years.

Regulations controlling issues such as storm water drainage and infiltration, development on slopes, tree protection, solar access, etc.

Storm water drainage and wastewater treatment.

The towns slopy topography allows nature and gravity to take care of most of the town's storm water drainage.

Storm water drainage system is made up of natural river drain and man-made storm water drains.

This was due mostly to previous storm water drainage works which utilised Elizabeth street as a watercourse during times of intense rain creating flash floods.

The expansion includes airfield hard standing and paved areas, lighting, fuel network systems and storm water drainage network.

Portions of the old Carondolet Canal infrastructure remain, however, among the oldest sections of the city's storm water drainage system.

As of 2008, the flood defences consisted of a concrete seawall, flood sirens and an internal surface storm water drainage system.

Some are involved with a specific are of concern such as waste collection or the maintenance of wastewater facilities and storm water drainage systems within a district.

For the capital, Phnom Penh, lakes and rivers serve as important resources for wastewater and storm water drainage.

They are a meat packing plant, the city's storm water drainage system and the sewage treatment plants of Boise, Nampa and Caldwell.

Improved sinkholes and abandoned drinking water wells that receive storm water runoff are considered storm water drainage wells.

Most of these Class V wells are unsophisticated shallow disposal systems that include storm water drainage wells, cesspools, and septic system leach fields.

An upstream storm water drainage channel runs into a sediment basin, which collects the heaviest sediments and allows better-quality water to flow into Wetland 1.

Designing for storm water drainage run-off uses sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) which ensure no discharge leaves the site into neighbouring water courses.

The security of water supply and the functioning of the storm water drainage of the metropolitan area thus are major concerns for the local, state, district and federal governments.

It is a low lying area and used to get water logged frequently till late 1990s, after which improvements in the storm water drainage system has considerably reduced water logging.

The extensive wetlands in the park are part of the "Blue Belt" an area of Staten Island which utilizes existing and improved undeveloped areas for storm water drainage.

Besides schools, there are culverts, irrigation channels, power lines and hundreds of storm-water drainage basins.

The city authorities drew up an extensive plan to overhaul the storm-water drainage system and develop the Mithi River to create outlets for water.

The department also authorized plans to upgrade the storm-water drainage system and retaining walls along the route to reduce sand and gravel erosion.

Mumbai's antiquated storm-water drainage system, which was initially put in place in the early 20th century during British rule, was largely blamed for the flooding.

Many rivered and lakeside areas will be flooded, and urban flooding will occur where storm-water drainage systems fail to cope.

Stopping storm-water drainage from that much rooftop to sewers was one incentive for an MMSD grant paying $808,500 of the costs.

The revitalization will consist of removing, and repaving roads and sidewalks, improving the storm-water drainage works and street beautification.

In late 2010 the Mogalakwena Municipality completed a R2,8 million rands tarred road and storm-water drainage system throughout the Malepetleke section of the village.

The documents from an impact statement or a recent North Salem commercial-residential project were so voluminous that separate individual volumes were printed on storm-water drainage and traffic studies.

Depending on the structure of any cross-alignment storm-water drainage installations, there may be an opportunity to combine the functional roles of wildlife passageway and drainage into the same structure.

Projects & planning for storm-water drainage, sewage treatment, annexation & boundary expansion, road construction & renewal, senior's housing, medical services, parks safety, & emergency planning among others, have all taken Council's time.

Richard N. Pitassy, a White Plains lawyer representing the company, Morris Industrial Builders, said the parcel designated for housing was now "a storm-water drainage lake" for the Westchester Corporate Park.

The present storm-water drainage system in Mumbai was put in place in the early 20th century and is capable of carrying only 25 millimetres of water per hour which was extremely inadequate on a day when 993 mm of rain fell in the city.

Even Harsher Rules Residents complain that the city, to protect its water and avoid spending $8 billion on treatment plants, has stepped up enforcement of long-ignored regulations for sewage treatment and storm-water drainage, forbidding the construction of household septic tanks and asphalt parking lots.

Price of a Building Permit As the price for permission to double the size of a downtown hardware store and pave an expanded parking lot, the city required the store's owners to dedicate 10 percent of their 1.67-acre parcel for a public bicycle path and for improved storm-water drainage into an adjacent creek.