Tag: rain: slow it down soak it up keep it clean

RAIN informs us that stormwater runoff impacts water quality and quantity by: “transporting pollution directly into lakes and rivers; eroding shorelines, loss of topsoil that hastens further runoff; warming up surface water, making it more susceptible to waterborne bacteria and hazardous to fragile marine life; overflowing sewage treatment facilities, allowing untreated human waste to flow…