Melbourne is installing a large "baffle box" to filter stormwater runoff before it enters the Indian River Lagoon. The $2.1 million structure, touted as the world's largest, will trap debris and ...
MELBOURNE AND WE SEE WHY IT COULD BE SO IMPORTANT. >> IT IS THE SIZE OF A TWO-STORY BUILDING, BUT UNDERGROUND. IT IS A STORMWATER CLEANER, A NITROGEN TRAP. IT IS CALLED A BAFFLE BOX. WORKERS LOWERED ...
Climate change is triggering more frequent and intense storms as well as flooding. The more extreme the storm, the more trash and pollutants end up in our oceans, rivers, and streams. Now a real-life ...
A real-life buried treasure – known as a “Debris Separating Baffle Box” - is seeking to trap the trash before it pollutes critical Bay Area waters, and just in time for the next series of atmospheric ...
It's a baffle box that will stifle more than 4,000 pounds of harmful pollution from seeping into the lagoon every year. Wednesday, six of the large pieces, each weighing 43,000 pounds, were installed ...
Their name makes them seem perplexing, but in reality, baffle boxes have a very straightforward job: cleaning stormwater. Melbourne is installing a $2.1 million baffle box — purported to be the ...