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E8 portfolio company StormSensor, which helps municipalities and industrial companies monitor stormw

E8 Cleantech Angels

Stormwater is the number one cause of water pollution in urban areas. StormSensor is a stormwater management solution designed to "take the expense, fear, and frustration" out of stormwater compliance. Measure impact of sea level rise on infrastructur. Detect and quantify Combined Sewage Overflows.

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E8 portfolio company StormSensor, which helps municipalities and industrial companies monitor stormw

E8 Cleantech Angels

Stormwater is the number one cause of water pollution in urban areas. StormSensor is a stormwater management solution designed to "take the expense, fear, and frustration" out of stormwater compliance. Measure impact of sea level rise on infrastructur. Detect and quantify Combined Sewage Overflows.

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Septic system waste pervasive throughout Florida’s Indian River lagoon

Envirotec Magazine

For more than a decade, fertilizer leaching and associated stormwater runoff were thought to be the major drivers of harmful algal blooms in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon. This is likely the result of increased infiltration, groundwater flow and stormwater runoff in the wet season.

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Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills

Grist

In most cases, the oil is transported by water — it mixes with stormwater drainage systems, streams, rivers, lakes, and groundwater reservoirs and ultimately gets carried to the sea. (Plastics, which are made from fossil fuels, were not considered in the report although they are a major contributor to ocean pollution.)

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Flood City Fights Climate Change with Infrastructure and Social Media

Unsustainable

With a projected global sea-level rise of 7-15 inches by 2065, according to the Southeast Florida Climate Compact 2015 projections, Miami communities stand to undergo drastic changes in development to combat the effects. September 2019 marked the first addition of a “bioswale” to the city’s roads.

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What Would Cities Look Like With 3 Degrees C of Warming vs. 1.5? Far More Hazardous and Vastly Unequal

The City Fix

The world recently experienced a 13-month streak of record-breaking global temperatures. And as blistering heat waves punish communities across several continents, 2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record. Global average temperatures are now perilously close to exceeding 1.5.

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As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts

Grist

“And a quarter are in zones that are highly vulnerable to sea level rise and severe storms,” she added. is building flood gates and stormwater systems even as it evacuates the basement collection of its American History museum. . “Over a third of museums in the U.S.