Dropping By #102 | Funding for Centers of Excellence for Stormwater Infrastructure Technologies

This week, Katie Johns, editor-in-chief of Stormwater Solutions is joined by Seth Brown, executive director of the National Municipal Stormwater Alliance (NMSA) and Walt Marlowe, executive director of the Water Environment Federation (WEF). 

The three discuss the funding that Congress will provide for three to five Centers of Excellence for Stormwater Infrastructure Technologies (CESITs), under a new program authorized in the Infrastructure and Investment in Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021. 

NMSA and WEF proposed the concept of creating stormwater centers of excellence as part of their annual Stormwater Policy Recommendations to Congress document, which has resulted in multiple other stormwater policy legislative successes since 2017 when the first recommendations document was released.