OptiRTC Retained by the City of Redmond WA, in Partnership with Osborn Consulting, Inc., to Improve Downstream Health and Water Quality within the Monticello Watershed
REDMOND, WA - OptiRTC (https://optirtc.com), a leader in forecast-based control of distributed stormwater infrastructure through cloud-based solutions, has been retained by the City of Redmond WA, in cooperation with Osborn Consulting, Inc., to design and install multiple Opti active control systems on ponds within the Monticello Watershed. The City of Redmond wants to improve flow duration control performance of the pond system to better mimic pre-development flows in order to improve downs...
City of LA and Partners Celebrate Opening of Bradley Plaza and Green Alley Shared Street
LOS ANGELES, CA — LA Sanitation and Environment (LASAN), in partnership with Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, Pacoima Beautiful, and The Trust for Public Land, today cut the ribbon on the Bradley Plaza and Green Alley stormwater and open space project. The completed project will provide a range of benefits including: improvement of water quality by capturing and infiltrating stormwater runoff, eliminating alley flooding, and promoting sustainability and neighborhood connectivity by creation of a v...
National Stormwater Trust (NST) and OptiRTC announce strategic partnership; Boston-based Opti shares proprietary technology with Florida firm
BOSTON, MA and TALLAHASSEE, FL - OptiRTC (https://optirtc.com), a leader in forecast-based control of distributed stormwater infrastructure through cloud-based solutions, today announced the formation of a strategic alliance with the Tallahassee-based National Stormwater Trust (NST). OptiRTC will work with NST to provide Opti’s cloud-based, proprietary adaptive control technology to allow NST to generate off-site stormwater offsets through enhancing existing performance of regional facilities...
Rinker Materials™ Directs Traffic at Hendricks Gateway Park
Stormwater Management System Helps Companies Navigate New Industrial Campus MONROVIA, Ind. – Core5 Logistics Center at Hendricks Gateway Park recently opened a nearly two million square-foot multi-facility campus making it one of the highest concentrations of modern logistics and distribution space in the Midwest. Conveniently located along I-70 about 25 miles southwest of Indianapolis, Hendricks Gateway Park required a stormwater management system featuring concrete components from Rink...
Overview of Rain Loads Provisions for Standard ASCE 7-16 Announced in New ASCE Press Book
RESTON, Va. – Rain Loads: Guide to the Rain Load Provisions of ASCE 7-16 provides the practicing structural engineer with a detailed description of the rain load provisions of Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures, ASCE 7-16. Authors O’Rourke and Lewis discuss the key parameters that underpin the provisions and illustrate the application of those provisions. Through more than 35 examples, the correct applications of the rain load provisions are illust...
CULTEC, Inc. Achieves a Published ASTM Product Standard
BROOKFIELD, Connecticut – CULTEC, Inc. successfully balloted a newly approved and published ASTM product standard, designated as ASTM F3430-20, Specification for Cellular Polypropylene (PP) Corrugated Wall Stormwater Collection Chambers. This new standard defines the requirements for PP chambers manufactured by the structural foam process, which produces chambers with a cellular wall. Since this was the first product of its kind brought before the ASTM Committee F17 on Plastic Piping, CULTEC...
Rinker Materials™ Goes Deep for LakePoint Sporting Community
EMERSON, Ga. – About 35 miles north of Atlanta along Interstate 75, LakePoint Sporting Community serves as one of the largest and most popular youth travel sports destinations in the country. LakePoint Sporting Community recently partnered with Bartow County and the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) to construct a two-mile parkway as the complex’s primary transportation corridor with adjacent land for future hotels, restaurants and other amenities. Rinker Materials™ produced more than...
New ASCE Report Offers Guidance for Stormwater Control Measures
Reston, Va. – While the stormwater management field has experienced exponential innovation over the last decade, there are no universally agreed upon maintenance protocols. This new publication, Inspection and Maintenance of Stormwater Control Measures, describes the functions and operations of stormwater control measures, offers trouble-shooting suggestions, and provides valuable information on the implementation of inspection and maintenance procedures. Topics covered in this book include t...
Video: Performance-Based Specifications to Improve Water Infrastructure
Josh Herchl, national infrastructure market manager with Advanced Drainage Solutions Inc., talks about strategies to improve the nation's water infrastructure.
IECA Announces Volunteer Awards at the 2019 Annual Conference
Denver, CO – The International Erosion Control Association Region One (IECA) announced winners for its environmental excellence awards at the 2019 IECA Annual Conference and Expo. The environmental excellence, outstanding professional of the year and sustained contributor awards recognize outstanding achievements in the erosion and sediment control and stormwater management industry. Wes Zech, Ph.D. and his previous work with the Auburn University Erosion and Sediment Control Testing Faci...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
