If your roof area has a footprint of 2,800 square feet and your area gets 36 inches of rain in a year, the runoff amounts to 62,832 gallons of water. That is enough to fill a gasoline tanker truck ...

Green roofs can capture nearly all the microplastic particles that contaminate rainwater in modern cities, according to a new ...

Reducing the impervious materials used to accommodate vehicles and recycling the water that washes off of our roofs can pay big dividends to the environment and maybe even the household budget.

If you live in a typical tract-style home in a place like Santa Rosa, some 25,000 gallons of water will drain off your roof this winter. That water will race across your property, perhaps via a ...

This is because the average roof size in Philadelphia is the smallest of the cities surveyed, so there is less runoff to manage from a single roof. The researchers found that larger percentages in ...

The Off the Roof project was hosted by CitSci.org, an online platform for citizen science, and it aimed to fill gaps in the data surrounding alternative water resources by better understanding the ...

RiverLink projects that redirecting water from just 50 average-sized roofs, which is their current goal for the program, they could annually remove 5.2 million gallons of runoff from local streams.

Collecting rainwater via Shutterstock Cities can vastly improve their water usage efficiency by building simple sloping roofs that facilitate the collection of rainwater runoff. Sloped roofs collect ...

Virginia Tech is giving urban runoff a run for its money. The College of Architecture and Urban Studies has released early results of a study that tests the effects of green roofs on controlling ...

BRISTOL, Va. — Hazardous materials teams responded to a parking lot Friday after heavy rain washed fresh red paint off a shopping center roof. Bristol Virginia Fire Capt. Mark Garrett said a ...

Taking into consideration the cities’ annual rainfall patterns, residential population and roof areas, the team calculated that, with enough water storage capacity — a little more than a standard ...