Stormwater management is the design and operation of how rainfall leaves a site: peak flow, volume, and quality. On developed ground, water that used to soak in becomes runoff. Without a plan it floods the neighbor and loads the creek.
The two problems
- Quantity — peak and volume, flooding, and erosion.
- Quality — sediment, nutrients, hydrocarbons, bacteria. NPDES and local post-construction rules live here.
Tools
Grading, inlets, pipes, ponds, swales, infiltration where the soils allow it, and construction BMPs (silt fence, basins, stabilized entrances) while the site is bare. A SWPPP is the construction-phase document. It is not the whole drainage design.
Cypress Environment & Infrastructure designs stormwater and writes SWPPPs for Gulf Coast sites. Related explainer: why it matters.
Questions about how this applies to a Gulf Coast site? Cypress Environment & Infrastructure works from Biloxi, Mobile, and Pensacola. Office hours are Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
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