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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pittsburgh-area county officials, facing an expensive wastewater system upgrade, hope reducing stormwater will help reduce the severity of combined sewage overflows. Part of the plan involves putting ...

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.

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 ...