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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466447603321

Titolo

Low impact development technology : design methods and case studies / / sponsored by Low Impact Development Committee of the Urban Water Resources Research Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; edited by Michael L. Clar [and six others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Virginia : , : American Society of Civil Engineers, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-68015-745-0

0-7844-7897-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Disciplina

363.72/84

Soggetti

Urban runoff - Management

Sanitary engineering

Sustainable development

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Rain Gardens/Bioretention""; ""Impacts of Soil Texture, Structure, and Compaction on Bioinfiltration Device Performance: Results of Lab and Field Investigations""; ""Topsoil Development in Bioretention Cells: What are the Implications?""; ""The BMP That Keeps on Giving: Quantifying the Impact of Native Plants on Soil Water Properties""; ""Effect of Vegetation on the Fate of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Laboratory-Scale Rain Gardens""; ""Nutrient Retention Performance of Advanced Bioretention Systems Results from Three Years of Mesocosm Studies""

""Bioretention Performance Findings from the International Stormwater BMP Database""""Green Streets and Hardscapes""; ""Ballard Roadside Rain Gardens, Phase 1-Lessons Learned""; ""A Green Street Retrofit in a Chesapeake Bay Community Using Bioswales""; ""The City of Richmond's Green Alleys Program: A Tale of Two Alleys""; ""Green Roofs""; ""Nitrate in Green Roof Runoff""; ""Vegetated Roof Systems: A



Review of the Benefits and Design Features of Tray Systems and Built Up Systems""; ""Design Methods""; ""Estimating Annual Runoff Based on the NRCS Runoff Curve Number""

""Development of Low Impact Development Design Guide""""Modeling to Quantify the Benefits of LID for CSO Reduction""; ""A Saturated Seepage Flow Model for Low Impact Development Devices""; ""Open Canopy in Urban Streams Induces Seasonal Variation in Transient Storage""; ""Hydrogeologic Testing, Engineering, and Start-Up of a Gravity Drain System""; ""Case Studies and Watershed Restoration""; ""From Gray to Green, Onondaga County's Green Strategy Addressing CSOs""; ""The Urban Forest Is Broken: How We Can Enhance 1,000,000 Tree Initiatives to Meet Stormwater Goals""

""Green Stormwater Retrofits: Objectives and Costing""""Coupling Stormflow Attenuation with Gully and Trail Stabilization, Wissahickon Valley Park, Philadelphia""; ""Stormwater Retrofit of Highwood Estates Detention Basins to Enhance Water Quality Benefits""