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Artful Storm Drains Spread the Message about Water Pollution

Municipalities partner with area artists to raise awareness of stormwater runoff through the UpStream Art project
  • By MaryBeth Matzek
  • November 19, 2015
Artful Storm Drains Spread the Message about Water Pollution

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Arkansas Stormwater MS4 Storm Sewer Public Education U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Stormwater Runoff Water Pollution

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Artful Storm Drains Spread the Message about Water Pollution
UpStream Art was created in 2011 when 21 Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s) jurisdictions came together to create the Northwest Arkansas Urban Stormwater Education Program.

As associate director with the City of Fayetteville’s Department of Sustainability & Resilience, part of Leif Olson’s job is to pay attention to storm drains. He wants to keep pollutants out of the drains of this Arkansas community.

While Olson knows that whatever enters the...

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