Download or read book Environmental Economic and Social Evaluation of Alternative Stormwater and Watershed Management Approaches written by Lisa A. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land development increases impervious surfaces, which requires the implementation of stormwater management solutions. Stormwater management solutions can be a significant cost of a development, as well as a significant contributor to the environmental impact on communities, either negative or positive, depending on the solution chosen and the environmental metric considered. Optimized stormwater solutions require participation from landowners, developers, engineers, community members, and government. When a development is installed on property with a stream and the various stakeholders seek optimized watershed outcomes, an opportunity also exists to improve downstream water quality. This dissertation uses environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle cost (LCC) approaches, as well as a social ecological system (SES) framework to understand the environmental and economic implications and tradeoffs of achieving optimized stormwater and watershed management solutions in a community. The combination of these three approaches cover the three pillars of sustainability, namely environmental, economic and social. LCA and LCC methods are applied to compare four cradle-to-grave stormwater and watershed management solutions - stormwater pre-treatment wetland beds with floodplain restoration, underground stormwater infiltration basin (USIB) with stream bank restoration, permeable pavement with stream bank restoration, and surface basins with stream bank restoration, as well as several variants. The site used in the study is a nearly 40-hectare privately-owned new development in a rural area of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with a watershed feeding the Chesapeake Bay. All solutions are sized to manage 15,000 m3 of stormwater per the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) requirements for the industrial site development as planned for a 100-year lifetime of the stormwater management solution implemented as well as improvement to the downstream water quality. The LCA method is further applied to bound the cradle-to-gate environmental impact of plastic box and arch USIB stormwater management solutions per cubic meter of stormwater to be managed. Sensitivity analysis is performed on major factors identified in the LCA and LCC. With stormwater and watersheds in the United States being managed in a command and control style, citizens can feel like victims of regulations instead of being partners when embracing solutions [1]. With the involvement of stakeholders who value environmental health, solutions can be sought to not only manage stormwater but to also improve downstream water quality. People make decisions based on a variety of factors including technical data, cost estimates, and personal preference; to reach optimal solutions, input is required from all interested parties. The SES method is applied to three community environmental groups in one county in Pennsylvania to identify the crucial elements of the SES framework to achieve sustainable citizen involvement in stormwater and watershed management whereby those citizens provide grassroots support to implement optimized solutions. In the case study investigated in this dissertation, floodplain restoration and surface basins produce less than 10% of the global warming of the USIB and permeable paving solutions over a 100-year lifetime. For floodplain restoration and surface basins, the global warming potential resulting from the maintenance phase is slightly higher than the installation phase. For the global warming potential of permeable paving and USIB, the installation phase dominates. From a cost perspective, assuming a 5% discount rate over a 100-year lifetime, the floodplain restoration is 80% more costly than surface basins, but 60% of the cost of the permeable paving and less than 20% of the cost of the USIB. Installation phase costs are dominant for all scenarios. With limited LCA research on USIB structures, this first look at installation phase global warming impacts of USIB structures indicates that plastic arch structures, ranging from 55 to 210 kg CO2 eq. per m3 stormwater, generally result in lower potential global warming impact; but there is significant overlap with plastic box structures, ranging from 70 to 430 CO2 eq. per m3 stormwater. Therefore, site specific design layout will be important to analyze for each site to choose the best solution within the plastic USIB family of solutions. Analysis of citizen watershed alliance organizations in the Lancaster County geographic region via Ostrom's SES framework identifies the key factors of citizen members in addition to local governmental leadership and local chapters of national advocacy associations to achieve optimized solutions. Citizen involvement increases commitment and passion since citizens are often directly affected by the environmental impact of the projects and solutions selected. They may also be indirectly impacted by taxation for stormwater and watershed costs covered by governing bodies. Similarly, citizens may benefit from avoided taxpayer costs when partnering with business and industry for solutions that address stormwater and water quality improvements on a regional basis rather than only on a site by site basis. Keywords: Chesapeake Bay; Life cycle assessment; Life cycle costing; Social ecological systems; Stormwater; Sustainability

Download or read book Rainwater as a Resource written by Edith Ben-Horin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TreePeople has managed the implementation of a number of demonstration projects showcasing alternative stormwater management approaches and practices, among which are the three projects featured in this report. At the time these projects were initiated, government agencies around Los Angeles were not practicing integrated urban watershed management. At least within the governmental arena, multipurpose projects -- which combine flood reduction, water conservation and stormwater protection with a host of other social, environmental and economic benefits -- were considered neither necessary nor financially and technically feasible.

Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sustainable Watershed Management written by I. Ethem Gonenc and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume contains papers and extended abstracts presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Watershed Management (SuWaMa 2014). The Conference was the second in a series of Sustainable Watershed Management Conferences. The objective of the Conference Series was to present and discuss advanced environmental models and contemporary decision support tools for the sustainable use and development of watersheds. Contributions cover the following topics: sound watershed management practices (case studies and examples from various countries including lessons learned from implementation of both successful and deficient management scenarios), decision support tools (such as monitoring, GIS, ecological economics, cost/benefit analysis and decision making models), integrated environmental model applications for management (including watershed, air-shed, coastal, and living resource models), trans-boundary environmental issues (air pollution, climate change, coastal oceans at regional, continental, and global scales) and global watershed sustainability. This multidisciplinary volume will benefit natural and social scientists, engineers, managers and other professionals as well as stakeholders with an interest in water resources and their management.

Download or read book Rein in the Runoff written by Grand Valley State University. Robert B. Annis Water Resources Institute and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Approaches to Water Sensitive Urban Design written by Ashok Sharma and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaches to Water Sensitive Urban Design: Potential, Design, Ecological Health, Economics, Policies and Community Perceptions covers all aspects on the implementation of sustainable storm water systems for urban and suburban areas whether they are labeled as WSUD, Low Impact Development (LID), Green Infrastructure (GI), Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) or the Sponge City Concept. These systems and approaches are becoming an integral part of developing water sensitive cities as they are considered very capable solutions in addressing issues relating to urbanization, climate change and heat island impacts in dealing with storm water issues. The book is based on research conducted in Australia and around the world, bringing in perspectives in an ecosystems approach, a water quality approach, and a sewer based approach to stormwater, all of which are uniquely covered in this single resource. Presents a holistic examination of the current knowledge on WSUD and storm water, including water quality, hydrology, social impacts, economic impacts, ecosystem health, and implementation guidelines Includes additional global approaches to WSUD, including SUDS, LID, GI and the Sponge City Concept Covers the different perspectives from Australia (ecosystem based), the USA (water quality based) and Europe (sewer based) Addresses storm water management during the civil construction stage when much of the ecological damage can be done

Download or read book Rein in the Runoff written by Elaine Sterrett Isely and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Swimming Upstream written by Paul A. Sabatier and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, water resource management in the United States has begun a shift away from top-down, government agency-directed decision processes toward a collaborative approach of negotiation and problem solving. Rather than focusing on specific pollution sources or specific areas within a watershed, this new process considers the watershed as a whole, seeking solutions to an interrelated set of social, economic, and environmental problems. Decision making involves face-to-face negotiations among a variety of stakeholders, including federal, state, and local agencies, landowners, environmentalists, industries, and researchers. Swimming Upstream analyzes the collaborative approach by providing a historical overview of watershed management in the United States and a normative and empirical conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating the process. The bulk of the book looks at a variety of collaborative watershed planning projects across the country. It first examines the applications of relatively short-term collaborative strategies in Oklahoma and Texas, exploring issues of trust and legitimacy. It then analyzes factors affecting the success of relatively long-term collaborative partnerships in the National Estuary Program and in 76 watersheds in Washington and California. Bringing analytical rigor to a field that has been dominated by practitioners' descriptive accounts, Swimming Upstream makes a vital contribution to public policy, public administration, and environmental management.

Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Water Resources Planning written by Andrew A. Dzurik and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in an extensively updated fourth edition, this essential text offers a comprehensive survey of all aspects of water resources planning and management. Utilizing an integrated water resources management (IWRM) framework, the authors show how this approach can clarify and help resolve resource management problems in ways that take into account complicated and interconnected social, economic, and environmental needs. Spanning the full planning process, the book considers legal and administrative issues; economic and forecasting factors; water quality, quantity, supply, use and demand; and model applications. The authors’ goal throughout is to provide a practical foundation for improving ecological and human environmental systems for practitioners and students alike.

Download or read book Sustainable Surface Water Management written by Susanne M. Charlesworth and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Surface Water Management: a handbook for SUDS addresses issues as diverse as flooding, water quality, amenity and biodiversity but also mitigation of, and adaptation to, global climate change, human health benefits and reduction in energy use. Chapters are included to cover issues from around the world, but they also address particular designs associated with the implementation of SUDS in tropical areas, problems with retrofitting SUDS devices, SUDS modelling, water harvesting in drought-stricken countries using SUDS and the inclusion of SUDS in the climate change strategies of such cities as Tokyo, New York and Strasbourg.

Download or read book Evaluation of Alternative Stormwater Management Policies written by Richard H. McCuen and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report written by United States. Office of Water Resources Research and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advances in Water Supply Management written by Č Maksimović and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report written by United States. Office of Water Resources Research and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance written by United States. Office of Management and Budget and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and describes specific government assistance opportunities such as loans, grants, counseling, and procurement contracts available under many agencies and programs.

Download or read book Using Graywater and Stormwater to Enhance Local Water Supplies written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic and episodic water shortages are becoming common in many regions of the United States, and population growth in water-scarce regions further compounds the challenges. Increasingly, alternative water sources such as graywater-untreated wastewater that does not include water from the toilet but generally includes water from bathroom sinks, showers, bathtubs, clothes washers, and laundry sinks- and stormwater-water from rainfall or snow that can be measured downstream in a pipe, culvert, or stream shortly after the precipitation event-are being viewed as resources to supplement scarce water supplies rather than as waste to be discharged as rapidly as possible. Graywater and stormwater can serve a range of non-potable uses, including irrigation, toilet flushing, washing, and cooling, although treatment may be needed. Stormwater may also be used to recharge groundwater, which may ultimately be tapped for potable use. In addition to providing additional sources of local water supply, harvesting stormwater has many potential benefits, including energy savings, pollution prevention, and reducing the impacts of urban development on urban streams. Similarly, the reuse of graywater can enhance water supply reliability and extend the capacity of existing wastewater systems in growing cities. Despite the benefits of using local alternative water sources to address water demands, many questions remain that have limited the broader application of graywater and stormwater capture and use. In particular, limited information is available on the costs, benefits, and risks of these projects, and beyond the simplest applications many state and local public health agencies have not developed regulatory frameworks for full use of these local water resources. To address these issues, Using Graywater and Stormwater to Enhance Local Water Supplies analyzes the risks, costs, and benefits on various uses of graywater and stormwater. This report examines technical, economic, regulatory, and social issues associated with graywater and stormwater capture for a range of uses, including non-potable urban uses, irrigation, and groundwater recharge. Using Graywater and Stormwater to Enhance Local Water Supplies considers the quality and suitability of water for reuse, treatment and storage technologies, and human health and environmental risks of water reuse. The findings and recommendations of this report will be valuable for water managers, citizens of states under a current drought, and local and state health and environmental agencies.