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Impact of Periodic High Concentrations of Salt on Bioretention Water Quality Performance
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )Bioretention is a stormwater control measure commonly used to remove pollutants, including nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), from urban stormwater. This study evaluates the impacts of episodic high concentrations of sodium ... -
Field Assessment of the Hydrologic Mitigation Performance of Three Aging Bioretention Cells
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )Increasing imperviousness has driven regulation and design philosophies to offset consequent increases in runoff volumes and peak flows. Previous research has shown bioretention to reduce runoff volumes and peak flows. ... -
Valuing the Multiple Benefits of Blue-Green Infrastructure for a Swedish Case Study: Contrasting the Economic Assessment Tools B£ST and TEEB
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )In addition to flooding and water quality management, blue-green infrastructure (BGI) provides multiple benefits to humans and ecosystems, including health and biodiversity. Various tools are available for assessing these ... -
Adequacy of Linear Models for Estimating Stormwater Best Management Practice Treatment Performance
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )Stormwater best management practices (BMPs) are commonly emplaced to remove contaminants to reduce environmental impacts of runoff, in addition to their flood control function. The selection of BMPs for urban catchments ... -
Fee Credits as an Economic Incentive for Green Infrastructure Retrofits in Stormwater-Impaired Urban Watersheds
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )Low participation rates in existing US stormwater utility fee credit programs indicate that the benefits attributed to credits are not being realized, most notably, the financial incentive for private property owners to ... -
Laboratory Media Test Comparisons to Long-Term Performance of Biofilter and Media Filter Treatment-Train Stormwater Controls
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Stormwater biofilters and bioretention controls have been extensively studied and are commonly encouraged as effective stormwater controls. Most of these controls incorporate media to enhance pollutant removal. There is ... -
Inter-Event Water Quality Variability and Intra-Event Pollutant Dynamics in Context of Effective Impervious Area
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Water quality modeling has been studied extensively to better manage urban runoff impacts on stream health and effectively address stormwater permitting requirements. Recent studies have indicated that previous modeling ... -
Tools to Quantify the Potential for Phosphorus Loss from Bioretention Soil Mixtures
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)This study was conducted to determine if soil indices for phosphorus availability can be applied to bioretention systems. We tested a broad range of composts and biosolids in combination with three water treatment residuals ... -
Reading the Green Landscape: Public Attitudes toward Green Stormwater Infrastructure and the Perceived Nonmonetary Value of Its Co-Benefits in Three US Cities
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Green stormwater infrastructure mirrors natural hydrologic processes and is presented as an alternative or complement to traditional gray stormwater infrastructure, which uses concrete channels and pipes to convey flows ... -
Barriers to Real-Time Control of Stormwater Systems
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Real-time control of stormwater infrastructure is an emerging technology that can improve stormwater system function. However, this technology has not been adopted widely, nor is it typically addressed within current ... -
Designing Dry Swales for Stormwater Quality Improvement Using the Aberdeen Equation
(ASCE, 2/1/2020 1)This case study presents a semiempirical method for designing water quality swales to treat stormwater runoff that is an alternative to current mostly anecdotal design approaches. Water quality swales are intended to reduce ... -
Monitoring the Water Quality Benefits of a Triangular Swale Treating a Highway Runoff
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)Swales are among the most commonly used stormwater control measures (SCMs) worldwide. In 2009, the North Carolina DOT constructed a grassed swale in Knightdale, North Carolina, in the right-of-way of Interstate 540 near ... -
Life-Cycle Costing for Distributed Stormwater Control Measures on the Gray-Green Continuum: A Planning-Level Tool
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)Managing stormwater is an important element of sustainable water management. Access to multiple types of stormwater control measures (SCMs) along the gray-green continuum presents decision makers with flexibility in managing ... -
Nutrient Removal in Rain Garden Lysimeters with Different Soil Types
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)Rain gardens are increasingly used to control stormwater because they are effective at both volume removal and pollutant control. Nutrients carried in stormwater are a major concern for many watersheds because uncontrolled ... -
Rainwater Collection and Management from Roofs at the Edison Environmental Center
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)In the past, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Edison Environmental Center, a 80.9-ha (200-acre) federal-run facility, directed all rainwater from roofed areas to the existing storm water conveyance system. Over the ... -
Enhanced Denitrification in Bioretention Using Woodchips as an Organic Carbon Source
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Bioretention systems fundamentally lack the ability to effectively reduce total nitrogen concentrations from urban stormwater. Column tests were conducted to simulate a bioretention anoxic zone and evaluate the effects of ... -
Hydrologic Performance of a Transitioned Infiltration Basin Managing Highway Runoff
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Infiltration basins are widely used stormwater control measures (SCMs) for urban stormwater runoff management. However, these SCMs can experience progressive failure to hydrologically perform as originally designed ... -
Assessing the Effects of Bioretention’s Engineered Media Composition and Compaction on Hydraulic Conductivity and Water Holding Capacity
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Bioretention devices are often recognized as stormwater control measures (SCMs) that satisfy green infrastructure or low-impact development (LID) objectives. The hydraulic characteristics of filter media underpin effective ... -
Effective Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity of an Infiltration-Based Stormwater Control Measure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Infiltration rates into field soils have a large variability, and a statistical value that represents the overall infiltration in a site is needed. The Green-Ampt equation was used to develop a one-dimensional, multisoil ... -
Divergent Vegetation Growth Patterns Relative to Bioinfiltration Unit Size and Plant Placement
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)In 2009, the U.S. EPA constructed six experimental bioinfiltration units (BUs) at the Edison Environmental Center in Edison, New Jersey. They were designed as two sets of three BUs with drainage area to surface area ratios of