Setting out to find information on stormwater inlet protection devices, which by the way is very boring and tedious, led me to a very interesting article. The article caught my attention because of the title of the article, “Who built a beach on a stormwater pond?”
The article discussed a method of effectively removing some of the phosphorus out of the stormwater before it enters into a lake. Phosphorus, in high amounts, is a nutrient when entering a body of water can cause an unsightly algae blooms and is detrimental to aquatic life because algae blooms deplete the oxygen in the water column.