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•San Francisco plans next year to build devices in three locations to prevent salty bay water from overflowing into the city's combined storm-water and wastewater system.
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•New York City is not only planting a million trees, it also has a $1.5 billion, 20-year plan for green infrastructure to help manage storm-water runoff from increasingly powerful storms.
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They absorb rainwater, reducing the load on storm-water systems, and filter what water does run off so it can be used for many domestic needs.
How to Build a Greener City Michael Totty 2011
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•New York City is not only planting a million trees, it also has a $1.5 billion, 20-year plan for green infrastructure to help manage storm-water runoff from increasingly powerful storms.
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•San Francisco plans next year to build devices in three locations to prevent salty bay water from overflowing into the city's combined storm-water and wastewater system.
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Flooding also could close the area's utility, storm-water and sewer services, said Richard Carlbom, spokesman for Mayor Chris Coleman.
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Even if Maryland eliminated all of it, there'd still be a sizable problem from farm waste and storm-water runoff, not to mention pollution from the five other states and the District in the Chesapeake watershed.
O'Malley's bold proposals on environment face sizable challenges Robert McCartney 2011
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Even if Maryland eliminated all of it, there'd still be a sizable problem from farm waste and storm-water runoff, not to mention pollution from the five other states and the District in the Chesapeake watershed.
O'Malley's bold proposals on environment face sizable challenges Robert McCartney 2011
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Even if Maryland eliminated all of it, there'd still be a sizable problem from farm waste and storm-water runoff, not to mention pollution from the five other states and the District in the Chesapeake watershed.
O'Malley's bold proposals on environment face sizable challenges Robert McCartney 2011
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"The city is trying to be as proactive as possible without engaging in the hyperbole of climate change arguments," says John White, the city's engineer for storm-water systems.
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