Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Microbial Communities in Partially and Fully Treated Effluent of Three Nitrogen-Removing Biofilters
(ASCE, 2020)In the United States, 24% of single-family homes have on-site wastewater treatment systems (OWTS). Not only is the proportion much higher in some areas, but also most of the OWTS provide no nitrogen removal. An innovative ... -
Temporal Lags in Post-Rain Greenhouse Gas Cycling and Fluxes from Septic Leach Field Soils and Associated Greenhouse Gas Cycling Microbial Populations
(ASCE, 2020)Globally, one in six people depends on septic systems for onsite wastewater treatment; however, little is known about leach field system greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and microbial GHG cycling. Methane (CH4), carbon dioxide ... -
Resilience of On-Site Wastewater Treatment Systems after Extreme Storm Event
(ASCE, 2020)In September 2013 an extreme (1000-year) storm event in north central Colorado produced over 40 cm rainfall in four days, resulting in widespread flooding. Along with damage to roads, bridges, housing, and sewers, ... -
Nitrogen Transformations and Microbial Characterization of Soils from Passive Nitrogen Removing Biofilters
(ASCE, 2020)To investigate spatial variability, regulation, and mass balances of N transformations in nitrogen-removing biofilters (NRBs), N2─N production and NO3−─N consumption were measured in suboxic incubations of nitrified percolate ... -
Biogeochemical Sequestration of Phosphorus in a Two-Layer Lignocellulose-Based Soil Treatment System
(ASCE, 2020)On-site wastewater treatment systems can contribute to the oversupply of phosphorus (P) to aquatic systems which represents a key factor for the development of eutrophic conditions and associated environmental issues, such ...