Urban Wet Weather

At LimnoTech, we recognize the need for our clients to make the most of limited resources to achieve multiple benefits and plan improvements with the big picture in mind. We serve communities, industries, and government agencies, from coast to coast, by developing technically sound, creative, and cost-effective solutions for urban wet weather problems. We provide expertise, ingenuity, information, and tools that result in collaborative decision-making on urban wet weather issues. Our objective is to bring a holistic approach that combines technical, regulatory, and public engagement to move beyond siloed solutions that benefit a singular entity and towards durable solutions that benefit the community. This approach supports our clients who are taking the lead in the stewardship of water resources in their community.

LimnoTech’s technical and regulatory expertise provides a solid foundation for planning, evaluating, and implementing wet weather solutions. Our staff provides guidance and programmatic support on wet weather issues for states or federal agencies. We help municipalities develop cost-effective plans to comply with state and federal requirements associated with combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and municipal stormwater discharges. Our modeling experts develop hydrologic and hydraulic models to assess capacity and peak wet weather flow issues, as well as conduct watershed and water quality assessments and modeling to evaluate the water quality benefits of control alternatives. We integrate these various skills to help address flooding through analysis, planning, public engagement, and solution development. We also incorporate climate change projections to prepare our clients for future wet weather conditions.

LimnoTech staff have extensive experience with the development or review of total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) and use attainability analyses (UAAs). We support our clients in developing NPDES permit conditions that are protective of the environment and also balance the need for permittees to use their resources efficiently. Our experts have helped pioneer the use of adaptive watershed management and revisions to water quality standards to meet Clean Water Act goals at a lower cost. We also develop customized decision support tools (DSTs) that integrate collection and conveyance systems, watersheds, streamflows, and water quality to establish meaningful goals for water resources in a community, as well as sustainable management solutions.

LimnoTech is at the forefront of advancing science and public policy for solving urban wet weather issues. In addition to our long history of service to municipalities, industries, and state and regional agencies, we also collaborate with US EPA, the Water Research Foundation (WRF), the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), and other national organizations to understand and address wet weather issues in the urban environment.

Contact Us! We’d love the opportunity to hear how we can serve your community! Please get in touch with Anouk, Steve, or Carrie to learn more about how we can help you.