Key Takeaways:

- Understanding why facilities need to manage stormwater properly. - Learning methods usable to reduce the sources of stormwater pollution at your facility. - Understanding how you should respond to a release of a polluting substance.

Course Description

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stated that “Urbanization increases the variety and amount of pollutants carried into our nation's waters. In urban and suburban areas, much of the land surface is covered by buildings, pavement and compacted landscapes with impaired drainage. These surfaces do not allow rain and snow melt to soak into the ground which greatly increases the volume and velocity of stormwater […]