stormwater management Articles
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Don’t Forget about Stormwater Management
Whether you’re an industrial maintenance manager or retail store manager, one of your many responsibilities may be to keep your property compliant with environmental rules and regulations. From waste management to vapor intrusion, the multitude of compliance-related issues can be daunting.It therefore comes as no surprise that for most retailers, the issue of stormwater management has not always ...
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Stormwater Management Program Long-Term Effectiveness Monitoring: Can I Reduce Sampling Frequency and Still Detect Trends to Determine BMP Effectiveness
INTRODUCTION Stormwater program managers are challenged with meeting regulatory monitoring requirements to identify long-term trends and the effectiveness of the implementation of Best Management Practices (BMPs) and meeting multiple program requirements with finite resources. This paper provides stormwater managers with methods and several real-world scenarios using 10 years of data from the ...
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Kansas Community Benefits by Turning Trouble into Treasure
(February 2006, as appeared in APWA Reporter http://www.apwa.net/Publications/Reporter/) Successful stormwater solutions abound in LenexaHistoric wisdom helped shape future planning in Lenexa, Kansas, where city and public works leaders have put the words of Albert Einstein into practice by developing innovative stormwater management solutions that will effectively address both quantity and ...
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Are we still protecting the environment?
Growing public awareness and concern for controlling water pollution led to enactment of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972. As amended in 1977, this law became commonly known as the Clean Water Act. Since its inception we have seen the evolution of Stormwater Best Management Practices to meet the demands of treatment and pretreatment of stormwater runoff from the roof ...
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The middle Rio Grande watershed based MS4 permit - Case Study
ALBUQUERQUE MS4 – THE EARLY YEARS In the early years of its permit history, the Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Agency (AMAFCA) operated with a typical MS4 Phase I, individual permit that included Minimum Control Measures along with Best Management Practices to enhance water quality including: Public education and outreach Public participation and involvement Illicit ...
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Stormwater Treatment: Priority pollutant behaviour in stormwater BMPs
The term Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs) (also known as sustainable urban drainage systems; SUDS) refers to a wide range of stormwater control systems which enable the planning, design and management of stormwater to be tackled equally from water quantity, water quality and amenity perspectives (). Commonly used systems include: Storage systems (e.g. retention ponds and constructed ...
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Assessing the performances of low impact development alternatives by long-term simulation for a semi-arid area in Tianjin, northern China
For areas that are urbanized rapidly, the practice of low impact development (LID) has gained an important place in stormwater management and urban planning due to its capability and beneficial effects in restoring the original hydrological cycle. The performances of LID alternatives can vary substantially due to different climate conditions. This study investigated the performances of five LID ...
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Can urban tree roots improve infiltration for stormwater management?
Global land use patterns and increasing pressures on water resources demand creative urban stormwater management. Strategies encouraging infiltration can enhance groundwater recharge and water quality. Urban subsoils are often relatively impermeable, and the construction of many stormwater detention best management practices (D-BMPs) exacerbates this condition. Root paths can act as conduits for ...
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Evaluation of stormwater BMPs for implementing industrial stormwater permitting strategy
This study assesses the performance of stormwater best management practices (BMPs) in industrial sectors and their effluent quality to facilitate the development of technology-based numerical effluent criteria. Generally, retention ponds outperform other BMP types for reducing total suspended solids, and media filter and wetland basins outperform other BMPs for metal removal. Detention basins ...
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Flow characteristics of individual lot stormwater detention
In this paper the flow characteristics of stormwater are analyzed as it travels from a roof gutter down-pipe and the turbulent flow generated on entering an individual lot on-site stormwater detention (OSD) unit beneath a residential carport. Comparison was made between a full-scale model and computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations to determine the flow characteristics. These modular ...
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Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMP)
Storm water is the result of rain or snow melt that collects in an area that can drain from into a nearby body of waters such as a lake or river. The water can collect on roof tops, parking lots, saturated ground, roads, etc. The problem is that many of the pollutants of our modern living such as oil, grease, pesticides, sediment, salt, and animal waste are washed away within the storm water and ...
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Cost overruns & non-compliance in stormwater treatment. Risk management strategies.
Stormwater treatment is a vital part of construction site ESC planning and management. However, even though conventional sediment control is a fairly commoditized service, most project managers still find it challenging to estimate water treatment cost in the planning phase and manage the cost overruns, project delays and pollution incidents during the project execution. Why is it challenging ...
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Erosion and Sediment Control: Navigating NPDES Regulations, the SWPPP, and Techniques for Compliance
Erosion and Sedimentation: Why Are They a Problem? The US Environmental Protection Agency lists sediment as the single most common pollutant in rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs. With all the potentially harmful chemicals and substances in the world, it seems odd to many people that sediment—dirt, essentially—is singled out as the major culprit. Yet these particles of sand, ...
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Puckett Downs - Case Study
The Puckett Downs is a townhome development in Murfreesboro, TN offering amenities like a pool, green space and eco-friendly features. This project was an expansion of the current ...
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Predicting Sustainable Ground Water to Constructed Riparian Wetlands: Shaker Trace, Ohio, USA
Water isotopy is introduced as a tool to design, locate, and select storm water best management practices for the prediction of sustained ground water inflows to prospective constructed wetlands. A primer and application of the stable isotopes, 18O and 2H, are discussed for riparian wetland restoration areas among an agricultural landscape in southwestern Ohio. Conventional piezometric ...
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Metals and bacteria partitioning to various size particles in Ballona Creek storm water runoff
Many storm water best management practice (BMP) devices function primarily by capturing particulate matter to take advantage of the well‐documented association between storm water particles and pollutants. The hydrodynamic separation or settling methods used by most BMP devices are most effective at capturing medium to large particles; however, these may not be the most predominant particles ...
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What is stormwater?
Stormwater runoff, water that isn’t absorbed into the ground after a weather event, is a potential water source that cities across the world have struggled with for decades. Why is coping with it such a challenge? Whether the precipitation is water or ice, its addition to the environment can be a problem, especially when a lot of it falls in a short amount of time. When this occurs in ...
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Privatization and Outsourcing Storm Water Discharge Requirements: Simplification Through Automated Sampling
ABSTRACT Kelly Air Force Base (KAFB) is a large industrial complex that is currently undergoing a Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) action. Privatization is occurring concurrently with the base closure and realignment. The base maintains both two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) and two Texas Natural Resource Conservation ...
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Pollution is washing from boatyards into Puget Sound. Who’s responsible?
Phil Riise worries about every single particle of pollution that washes from his waterfront business, Seaview Boatyard North, into Bellingham Bay. It’s partly because he cares about the body of water, where he fishes and crabs for sport. But it’s also because just a little too much pollution could take a large financial toll on his livelihood - boatyards that don’t meet state ...
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What you don`t know can hurt you
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: The ins and outs of site inspection in a new era As NPDES permits strive to improve storm water runoff, site inspections and monitoring put an increasing demand on businesses and municipalities to evaluate and report their program performance. One of the primary goals of the permits is to gather additional data through site monitoring. The permits now are ...
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