Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP) and its partners have completed a sweeping, five-year investigation quantifying the relative contributions of six major sources of human fecal contamination in the San Diego River watershed during wet weather – a multicomponent scientific undertaking that has produced groundbreaking insights into one of the most vexing challenges in...

Apply to be a presenter at the 2025 P3S Conference and Expo at the Hayes Mansion in San José. Apply by August 30th > Severe winter rains could not keep members away from CWEA’s 51st annual Pretreatment, Pollution Prevention, and Stormwater Conference in Anaheim. During our February conference, drenching rains lasted throughout the week but...

I am looking forward to working with you over the next two years to improve U.S. stormwater programs as well as overall stormwater quality. The U.S. Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) program is currently at a crossroads. On the regulatory side, it faces needs to implement numeric standards through total maximum daily loads (TMDLs)...

SwiftComply is pleased to announce the launch of SwiftComply Stormwater in partnership with NPDESPro, a web-based application that helps Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s) to efficiently meet the requirements of the Clean Water Act. SwiftComply Stormwater helps authorities to develop and implement comprehensive Stormwater Management Plans, and manage the permitting of non-point source discharges. The platform...

Originally published in WEF’s Stormwater Report As the stormwater sector grows in complexity with new the rise of new contaminants, technologies, and practices, so too do stormwater management regulations. Because the regulatory landscape of the stormwater field tends to be more dynamic than other water management segments, it can be difficult for stormwater managers to...

Shawn McCarty and his sixth-grade students from Hoover Elementary in Stockton, Calif., gathered on a video conference Friday afternoon thinking they would be helping Principal Dr. Charleen Mah pilot a new distance-learning model. Instead, McCarty and his students learned that their project on recycling and water collection won first place in the 2020 Cal Water...

The San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board has ordered Monterey Mushrooms, Inc. to pay $911,800 for discharging polluted stormwater into Fisher Creek, harming water quality and threatening aquatic life. The company, which is the largest grower of fresh mushrooms in North America, discharged more than 650,000 gallons of polluted water from its Morgan...

From ABC7 San Francisco. Featuring CWEA member Eileen White, Director of Wastewater for EBMUD. 

The Safe, Clean Water Program (SCW Program) is excited to announce the Fiscal Year 2020-21 and 2021-22 Regional call for projects. Fifty percent of the annual Special Parcel Tax revenue will be allocated to regional watershed-based Projects, Project concepts and Scientific Studies as described below. Definitions for all capitalized terms can be found here. Eligible Projects...