Did you know...
The City's storm water drainage system
is separate from the sanitary sewer system (indoor sinks,
toilets, etc). The sanitary sewer system drains to the City's
two wastewater treatment
plants while the storm water system drains to area streams,
rivers, and lakes.
What does the storm water drainage system consist
of?
A variety of structures and land forms,
both natural and artificial, are considered to be part of
the storm water drainage system. These include street gutters,
storm drains, pipes, grass and concrete channels, earth
berms, ditches, box culverts, streams, detention basins,
and even sinkholes. All of these are part of the course
which storm water runoff travels on its way out of urban
areas and into nearby streams, rivers and lakes
