Meyerland has a history of flooding issues but local leaders say the Meyer Grove Detention Basin will help prevent future ...

Flossmoor Mayor Michelle Nelson offered an update on a completion date for the detention basin near Heather Hill School.

Rippy led a yearlong study examining stormwater detention basins in Northern Virginia, focusing on the impacts of road salts on plants, soils, and water quality in green infrastructure systems ...

Specifically, salts can impact the processes like filtration and contaminate retention basins that are used to manage and treat urban stormwater runoff. Megan Rippy, assistant professor in civil ...

Megan Rippy collects soil samples at a stormwater detention basin along Interstate 95 in Northern Virginia. Credit: Stanley Grant. Salt pollution in freshwater is a growing global concern.