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Storm Drain
Storm drain in action.

A storm drain, storm sewer (U.S.), stormwater drain (Australia and New Zealand) or surface water system (UK) is designed to drain extra rain and ground water from paved streets, parking lots, sidewalks, and roofs. Storm drains vary in design from small residential dry wells to large municipal systems. They are fed by street gutters on most motorways, freeways and other busy roads, as well as towns in areas which experience heavy rainfall, flooding and coastal towns which experience regular storms.

Images for kids

  • Storm drain pipe (crop)

    Storm drain with its pipe visible beneath it due to construction work

  • Küstrin - alter Strassenablauf

    Old German storm drain in Küstrin (now Kostrzyn nad Odrą in Poland)

  • StormDrainCulvert

    A storm sewer under the main road empties into a bigger open channel

  • Storm Drain Label EPA

    Sign alerting public to avoid dumping waste into storm drains

  • BosHarbor DrainWan

    Typical signage embedded in pavement next to a storm drain in Boston, in the United States

  • Storm Drain Dryden

    Full view of a storm drain (Ontario, Canada)

  • Storm drain discharging into the River Brent - geograph.org.uk - 1068344

    A storm drain discharging into the River Brent in the UK.

  • Iron Cove Ck looking downstream from John St, Croydon

    Iron Cove Creek, Sydney, Australia.

  • Down the tunnel

    Inside of a large reinforced concrete box storm drain in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

  • IMG 1173 - Obertraun - Stormwater management

    Storm drain in Obertraun, Austria.

  • 2005-06-07 Storm drain overflow in Durham

    Storm drain overflowing in Durham, North Carolina.

  • 114 inch pipe installation

    114" pipe installation; Pipe: 114" aluminized type 2; Flow: 25 cubic meters/second; This is a storm drain in Guasave, Mexico.

  • Markeaton Interceptor Storm Relief Culvert2

    The inlet to a storm drain in Markeaton, Derby allowing a river to overflow into the storm drain.

  • Markeaton Interceptor Storm Relief Culvert1

    Inside the Markeaton Interceptor Storm Relief Culvert

  • Kutná hora cobblestones5

    Old storm drain in Kutná Hora, the Czech Republic


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