When rainfall or snowmelt occur in the city, we may wonder where does all that water go? Some of it may evaporate into the air, but most of it will flow into stormwater systems. In my youth, I thought everything flowed to one place like a sewer then to a water processing plant or something of that nature. I suspect I am not the only one who believed this. It was interesting to find out that most water that flows over city infrastructure, paved roads and sidewalks flow into stormwater systems. These system are designed to collect contaminated stormwater, allow contaminants to be deposited within it and allow for the water to flow out into streams, rivers, lakes and ponds. Stormwater facilities provide a buffer so that the stormwater does not flow into our local water bodies full of contaminates.
