Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems

07/24/24

“How can we organize infrastructure to transfer stormwater into local streams and rivers?”

Stormwater can be a great difficulty to deal with. It destroys infrastructure, harms people, and makes life generally more difficult. City planners and engineers have created a series of structures to bring the stormwater to a central location and then discharge it into nearby streams and rivers. These Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems, or MS4, coordinate infrastructure such as basins, ditches, inlets, and discharges to create a successful urban wastewater runoff protection system. Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems are separate from wastewater sewer systems and typically do not involve decontamination treatment.