Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment: Recent submissions
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Creating a Water Quality Scale Methodology Using California as a Case Study
(ASCE, 5/1/2021)Water availability analysis traditionally has involved understanding how much water enters and leaves a region and how much is used or stored each year. This mass balance of water, or water budget, is useful for tracking ... -
Modeling Infiltration in Green Stormwater Infrastructure: Effect of Geometric Shape
(ASCE, 5/1/2021)Geometric shape can play an important role in modeling and designing green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) systems because of its influence on system infiltration processes. The effects of GSI system geometry were assessed ... -
Estimating Regionalized Planning Costs of Green Infrastructure and Low-Impact Development Stormwater Management Practices: Updates to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s National Stormwater Calculator
(ASCE, 5/1/2021)Estimating regional costs of green infrastructure (GI) and low-impact development (LID) stormwater management controls is an important issue for many municipalities and water utilities in the United States. The National ... -
Runoff Reduction by Four Green Stormwater Infrastructure Systems in a Shared Environment
(ASCE, 5/1/2021)Green stormwater infrastructure (GI) imitates the hydrology of undeveloped land to mediate the impacts of stormwater runoff, but research is lacking that characterizes the performances of different types of independent GI ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Tool for Water Balance Analysis of Bioretention Cells
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)Bioretention has become one of the most popular urban stormwater best management practices. An easy-to-use analytical tool is developed here to investigate the water balance dynamics of bioretention cells. A stochastic ... -
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 ... -
Water Quality and Hydrologic Performance of Two Dry Detention Basins Receiving Highway Stormwater Runoff in the Piedmont Region of North Carolina
(ASCE, 5/1/2020 1)Dry detention basins (DDBs) are a stormwater control measure (SCM) designed to provide flood storage, peak discharge abatement, and some water quality improvement through sedimentation; however, little data characterize ... -
Using Irrigation to Increase Stormwater Mitigation Potential of Rainwater Harvesting Systems
(ASCE, 5/1/2020 1)Rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems used for irrigation often provide fewer stormwater management benefits than systems used for year-round, nondiscretionary purposes because there is diminished demand for harvested rainwater ... -
Rapid Remote Assessment of Culvert Flooding Risk
(ASCE, 5/1/2020 1)Failure of aging, undersized, and poorly maintained culverts is a problem throughout the United States. A lack of data on culvert location and condition complicates decision-making around their repair and replacement. This ... -
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 ... -
Geospatial Modeling Suggests Threats from Stormy Seas to Rhode Island’s Coastal Septic Systems
(ASCE, 2020)Coastal communities preparing for climate change and sea-level rise need to consider the impact large storms will have on belowground infrastructure. Although these communities often rely on on-site wastewater treatment ... -
One Model Does Not Fit All: Bottom-Up Indicators of Residential Water Use Provide Limited Explanation of Urban Water Fluxes
(ASCE, 2020)Demand forecasting for water resources is an essential planning element for cities to provide secure and sustainable water supplies. A common way of determining water demands is to identify indicators at the household level ... -
Removal of Phosphate and Nitrate from Impacted Waters via Slag-Driven Precipitation and Microbial Transformation
(ASCE, 2020)Excess nutrients in water such as nitrogen and phosphorus result in microbial growth and overfertilization of aquatic plants, increasing the rate of eutrophication in water bodies. This work investigated the application ...