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GET IT RIGHT AT THE FRONT-END, OTHERWISE: “We end up paying far more to fix a problem further down the road when the absolute need to address it leaves no other option,” wrote Rick Baumann, South Carolina newspaper guest columnist

June 29, 2017 - Posted in 2017 posts, Contextual Resources Document Oral History, EAP, the Ecological Accounting Process, is a BC Strategy for Community Investment in Stream Systems (Natural Commons)

Rick Baumann, Guest Columnist (acknowledgement: South Strand News, South Carolina)

Stormwater Flooding An Expensive Problem, Hot Issue

Stormwater flooding “has been an ‘expensive’ and ‘hot’ issue for about a hundred years – and our leaders have mostly chosen to ignore that,” wrote Rick Baumann in his guest column. He is a former member of a county Stormwater Advisory Committee in South Carolina.

“Fast forward to present times and a quote….from Eric Larson, President of the SC Association of Stormwater Managers. ‘The science of stormwater management is catching up with the development that has occurred’. That is the problem.

“We are playing catchup – and application of the science Mr. Larson refers to is lagging far behind long established established knowledge. Why?”

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Download Guest Column Rick Baumann: Storm water reeks havoc to read the complete story posted in the South Strand News, a newspaper serving Georgetown, South Carolina.