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Storm drain grate on a street in Warsaw, Poland Storm drain with its pipe visible beneath it due to construction work. A storm drain, storm sewer (United Kingdom, U.S. and Canada), highway drain, [1] surface water drain/sewer (United Kingdom), or stormwater drain (Australia and New Zealand) is infrastructure designed to drain excess rain and ground water from impervious surfaces such as paved ...
A street gutter is a depression that runs parallel to a road and is designed to collect rainwater that flows along the street diverting it into a storm drain. A gutter alleviates water buildup on a street, allows pedestrians to pass without walking through puddles, and reduces the risk of hydroplaning by road vehicles.
As building space within the city became more valuable, the drain was gradually built over. [citation needed] By the time of the late Roman Republic this sewer became the city's main storm drain. [14] It developed into a system 1,600 meters long. [15] By the second century BC, it had a 101 meter long canal which was covered up and expanded into ...
A major winter storm left behind heavy snow and bitter cold as it began to push off the Atlantic Coast on Thursday, leading to flight delays, snarled traffic and shuttered schools. The system had ...
Stormwater carrying street bound pollutants to a storm drain for coastal discharge. With less vegetation and more impervious surfaces (parking lots, roads, buildings, compacted soil), developed areas allow less rain to infiltrate into the ground, and more runoff is generated than in undeveloped conditions. Additionally, passages such as ditches ...
CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Things got interesting in a Florida neighborhood over the weekend after a monstrous alligator became trapped in a storm drain, triggering a frightening rescue operation.
On June 27, a kitten was finally rescued after being trapped in a storm drain in Denver, Colorado, for four days. The feline was stuck in the pipe, and some residents tried their best to save him.
The city of Lowell also reported heavy rainfall from the storm as 2 inches (51 mm) of rain fell in a 24‑hour period. The heavy rainfall caused isolated street flooding due to clogged storm drains. [6] In Fitchburg, the storm dropped 1.87 inches (47 mm) of rain while Cape Cod received tides 3–6 feet (0.91–1.83 meters) above normal. [9]