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These are three, three-letter acronyms for something that treats stormwater.
What is STU, SCM, BMP?
This is the year VHB was founded.
What is 1979?
The third largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
The creators of the song “Take One Me” (surpassing more than a billion views on YouTube).
Who is A-ha?
The team that has won the most NBA championships.
What are the Boston Celtics?
This equation, commonly written as Q = C i A, is used to estimate peak discharge from small urban watersheds for storm drain design.
What is the Rational Method?
This is the number of employees at VHB (round to the nearest 100).
What is 2,300?
This landlocked South American country has two capital cities, La Paz and Sucre.
What is Bolivia?
The semi-autobiographical movie from 2002 which stars American rapper Marshall Bruce Mathers (better known by his stage name).
What is 8-mile?
The country that hosted the 2008 summer Olympics.
What is China?
Often required in MS4 permits, this type of stormwater control measure uses engineered soil, vegetation, and sometimes underdrains to promote infiltration and improve water quality.
What is a bioretention system?
The four components of our imperatives organized from top to bottom in a triangle.
What is Transform, elevate, advance, and explore?
This mountain range contains the world's highest volcano.
What is the Andes mountain range?
The famous rock guitarist who played the guitar solo on the Michael Jackson song “Beat It".
Who is Eddie Van Halen?
First held in 1930 and now played every four years, this tournament is the most-watched single sporting event on the planet.
What is the World Cup?
This man, whose name is on a widely used empirical equation, developed a formula relating flow rate, slope, and roughness in open channels.
Who is Robert Manning?
This Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer oversees the financial health and strategy of VHB.
Who is Eric Hartmann?
This term refers to the major ridge line in North America where river systems split, sending water either toward the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Continental Divide?
The Irish band that spent 24 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 with the song “Linger”.
Who are The Cranberries?
In track and field, this 10-event competition includes running, jumping, and throwing over two days and often decides the “world’s greatest athlete”.
What is the decathlon?
The name of the line representing the level of flowing water in an open channel. In closed pipes, it represents the level to which water would rise in a vertical tube at any point along the pipe.
What is the Hydraulic Grade Line (HGL)?
This leadership body guides VHB’s long-term strategy, governance, and stewardship on behalf of its employee-owners.
What is the Board of Directors?
This European river, which flows through cities like Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade, empties into the Black Sea.
What is the Danube?
The California prison that Johnny Cash performed at in 1968.
What is Folsom Prison?
The National Sports Act of Canada granted two different sports as the official sports of Canada.
What are hockey & lacrosse?