Storm Water Awareness Week 2026 is only 2 months away!!! Are you coming to this week of free, online storm water education? Find out more about the event at stormwaterawareness.org

 Save the date! Friday, September 25th at 4:00 PM PDT. Jump into a kayak and join our grand finale Storm Water Awareness Week 2026. We would love to have kayakers in their local waterways from coast to coast celebrating Storm Water Awareness Week and enjoying the beautiful water we work so hard to protect all year long! David Franklin of EnviroTech NPDES Services and John Teravskis of WGR Southwest, Inc. team up while in their kayaks to talk about erosion ... but not soil erosion. David, kayaking in the legendary Minnesota canoe country will

 Be sure to save the dates - September 21-25, 2026. Storm Water Awareness Week will be happening that entire week. Join thousands of storm water professionals across the country and globe for a week of free storm water education. Head over to stormwaterawareness.org to see the great lineup of workshops we have for 2026. Attendee registration opens September 1st.

 Have you shopped the summer sale yet? Head over to wgr-sw.com/training to shop the select courses on sale! Sale prices end 07/31/26.

 In honor of our country’s semiquincentennial, let’s take a journey through American history, happenings, folklore, terminology, and more from a storm water perspective. And while there are so many historical moments which have defined storm water in the United States – the Cuyahoga River fire in 1969, the formation of the EPA in 1970, all the explorers and conservationists who saw the beauty of our land and fought to preserve it for generations – John Muir, Teddy Roosevelt, and many more; for this month’s commemorative edition of The

 Happy 250th Independence Day! 1776-2026 God bless America! My home sweet home!

 Be sure to shop the sale we are having on FORGE during the month of July! Visit wgr-sw.com/training to browse the courses that are on sale.

 While dumping chests of tea into the Boston Harbor on the night of the December 16, 1773 may have been an iconic event of American History and the rumblings of the American Revolutionary War which led to our country’s formation, the continued dumping of things into the water ways of our nation, in 1969 led to the Cuyahoga River Fire which brought about the Clean Water Act in 1972. History and our environment were forever changed that day, for the better, and today we are part of that historical moment by the storm water regulations we comply

 In August 2024, The Monthly Dirt reported on the new format required for 2022 Construction General Permit (CGP) annual report. In that newsletter, we talked about the Water Board’s new compliance summary spreadsheet which is downloaded from SMARTS, completed by the discharger, and then uploaded back onto SMARTS as part of the annual report. The article detailed the process needed to populate the required data to be included in the spreadsheet. Since many of our readers will be preparing annual reports starting sometime after July 1, in thi

 Happy Father's Day to all those amazing dads out there!

 Happy first official day of summer! ☀️

 Be sure to register to attend our next upcoming online QSP/QSD class! Visit wgr-sw.com/training to see all the course details!