Sewers are overflowing everywhere. One solution is right in your backyard.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/12/10/rain-garden-cities/
When a heavy rainstorm hits D.C., it’s bad news for the city’s rivers.
The city’s sewer system, which combines storm runoff and raw sewage in some areas, has a history of overflowing. Instead of flowing into a treatment plant, that toxic mix, along with the sediment, trash and other pollutants storm water washes off streets, ends up in rivers.
The city just finished a major component of a multibillion dollar tunnel system to intercept that storm water, but it’s also turning to a far simpler and cheaper solution: rain gardens.
These features, which are built below street level and host a variety of plantings, have been popping up across the country as cities seek to manage more extreme storms.