Stormwater Pollution Articles
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Project - Grass Pave Fire Lane Installed Using AirPave at Mitch Park Emergency Access
Mitch Park Emergency Access Grass Pave Fire Lane Installed Using AirPave AirPave Grass Pave System was installed by Connelly Paving who works with general contractors all around the central Oklahoma region. Create beauty and comfort with the unbeatable price and performance of an AirPave porous flexible paving grass pave ...
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Project - Grass Pave Fire Lane at Market Center Station Kansas City, Kansas
AirPave Porous Flexible Paving at Market Center Station Grass Pave Fire Lane Kansas City, Kansas A grass pave project designed by AMR Architects Inc out of Little Rock, Arkansas and developed by Houston-based The Morgan Group Inc., Market Station is the largest new construction project erected in Downtown Kansas City since Quality Hill in 1984. AirPave was chosen as the solution for porous ...
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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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City of Calgary - Stormwater Pollution Prevention Update
Spring is upon us so the Stomwater Pollution Prevention team would like to remind you of some things you need to rememeber when it comes to managing your site during these wet months Mud Tracking As the ground thaws, it seems like it is harder to prevent mud from being tracked onto the street. No matter how much gravel we put down, it seems to disappear into the soil as vehicles drive over it. ...
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Stormwater Management Solutions
Key Points: Rain is the ultimate cleaning agent of our world, but what happens with pollutant-laden stormwater runoff from urban and industrial environments really matters. This article analyzes why stormwater can be harmful, what kind of pollutants it can contain, and how it can affect the environment. After the overview, we will have a quick look at hi-tech solutions that can enable you to run ...
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Moreton Bay Council Works depot, Petrie - Case study
Our Fox Diversion System works well, there are a lot of different users on our wash area so our site is always dirty. The Fox First Flush System automatically takes the first flush of dirty water to treatment when it rains. We could not use a roof as some of our equipment is to big, the Fox FF600 is perfect for the job. The Task The Moreton Bay Regional Council Depot at Petrie had an old wash ...
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WaStop prevents flooding on Meritt Island Case Study
Problem: Brevard County converted two borrow pits into retention ponds for polluted stormwater collected from the Pine Island Canal. This waterway collects stormwater from a 5,970 acre drainage basin, including citrus groves and agricultural land, and deposits it into the Indian River. A method for allowing water to flow from the canal to the converted borrow pits and to prevent backflow from the ...
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Oldcastle Helps Clean-Up Santa Monica with Panel Vault Cistern - Case study
Project Overview Surf’s up and clean in Southern California thanks to Oldcastle and the Santa Monica “Clean Beaches” stormwater cistern. Located at the base of the world-famous Santa Monica Pier, the Deauville basin will be used to harvest up to 1.6 million gallons of stormwater runoff from the pier’s downtown drainage basin. The harvested runoff will then be diverted ...
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Should I Sweep My Parking Lot When It Rains?
Rain can put a damper on many of your activities. But during the rainy season, a lot of people make the mistake of canceling their regular sweeping services, and this does more harm than good, not only for your parking lot but also the environment. Parking lots are covered with waste, whether you see it or not. There is a lot of chemical waste on your parking lot too. Oil, fuel, grease, metals ...
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Investigation into the long-term stormwater pollution removal efficiency of bioretention systems
In recent years, there has been a steady increase in the number of bioretention systems installed worldwide. However, there has only been limited research on the long-term effectiveness of these sustainable urban drainage system devices. This paper presents the results of a series of controlled field experiments investigating the pollutant removal efficiency of three, 10-year-old, ...
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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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An exploratory study of the effects of stormwater pipeline materials on transported stormwater quality
Implications of three sewer pipe materials (concrete, galvanized corrugated steel, and polyvinyl chloride (PVC)) for stormwater quality were explored in laboratory experiments, in which three types of stormwater, SW1–SW3, were circulated in 0.5 m long sewer pipe sections. SW1 and SW2 represented synthetic rainwater, without and with fine street sediment added (CTSS = 150 mg/L), respectively, ...
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Micro-zooplankton grazing as a means of fecal bacteria removal in stormwater BMPs
A priority for environmental managers is control of stormwater runoff pollution, especially fecal microbial pollution. This research was designed to determine if fecal bacterial grazing by micro-zooplankton is a significant control on fecal bacteria in aquatic best management practices (BMPs); if grazing differs between a wet detention pond and a constructed wetland; and if environmental ...
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Modelling and optimization of land use/land cover change in a developing urban catchment
The impacts of land use/cover change (LUCC) on hydrological processes and water resources are mainly reflected in changes in runoff and pollutant variations. Low impact development (LID) technology is utilized as an effective strategy to control urban stormwater runoff and pollution in the urban catchment. In this study, the impact of LUCC on runoff and pollutants in an urbanizing catchment ...
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What is a storm water filtration?
Water is the main source of living for human beings on this earth. Water is not only essential for human life but also it is a fundamental natural resource for sustaining of wildlife and environment. It is the main substance for surviving a healthy life. There are many vital resources which contaminate the water and many death implications occur. Due to many natural calamities, the water source ...
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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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Structural improvements on hydrodynamic separators: a computational fluid dynamics approach
Hydrodynamic separators (HDSs) have been used extensively to reduce stormwater pollutants from urbanized areas before entering the receiving water bodies. They primarily remove particulates and associated pollutants using gravity settling. Two types of HDSs with different structural configurations of the inner vortex-inducing components were presented in this study. One configuration ...
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Experimental study of hydraulics and sediment capture efficiency in catchbasins
Catchbasins (also known as gully pot in the UK and Australia) are used to receive surface runoff and drain the stormwater into storm sewers. The recent interest in catchbasins is to improve their effectiveness in removing sediments in stormwater. An experimental study was conducted to examine the hydraulic features and sediment capture efficiency in catchbasins, with and without a bottom ...
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Storm Water Plan Case Study
Global was contracted by a local Road Commission site. The Road Commission site serves as the county level road agency, which maintains more than 1,813 miles of roads and streets and over 250 signalized intersections. The Road Commission contains six sites across the county. Each site is responsible for its particular area. The sites all include maintenance garages, diesel and gasoline ...
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Case study - Investigations of PAH pollution in stormwater stream TVARAN
Project reference Project: Pilot project in Umeå city (Sweden) Customer: Umeå county, Sweden Project period 2001-2002 Nature of task: Determination of bioacumulative PAH pollution profile in Tvärån stormwater stream Evaluation of possible non-point sources Summary In this study the 16 EPA PAH compounds were studied. All three sampling sites show different ...
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