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Knox County (Tennessee) Watershed Coordinator Roy Arthur, Compliance Manager Natalie Landry and Flood Plain Manager Eddy Roberts (from left) stand on a bridge overlooking a large bioretention pond they designed. (Photography by Martin Cherry)
Knox County, Tennessee, is verdant, picturesque and a perfect illustration of the problems that arise when stormwater collects in volume. The result is flooding, erosion, destabilized ground and pathogenic threats.
The county’s Stormwater Management Department, however,...