Download or read book Preliminary Data Summary of Urban Stormwater Best Management Practices written by U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic documents to reports released in the new millennium, and features works like: Bicycle for a Better Environment, Health Effects of Increasing Sulfur Oxides Emissions Draft, and Women and Environmental Health.
Download or read book Preliminary Data Summary of Urban Storm Water Best Management Practices written by U. S. Environmental Agency and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The significance of storm water runoff in affecting water quality in the United States has become an increasing concern in recent years, as further improvements are made in controlling other point sources such as municipal sewage and industrial waste. EPA conducted a broad analysis of storm water runoff characteristics in its Nationwide Urban Runoff Program between 1979 and 1983. During the 1980's the Agency made several attempts to promulgate regulatory controls for storm water runoff under the statutory framework of the 1972 Clean Water Act. Following enactment of the Water Quality Act of 1987, EPA began development of a more comprehensive regulatory program. During the course of these actions, the use of best management practices (BMPs) in addressing runoff problems was frequently identified, however it was known that additional research on the performance of BMPs was also needed. EPA's Engineering and Analysis Division conducted a study on storm water best management practices during 1997 and 1998 as part of its series of preliminary studies in the effluent guidelines program. This report summarizes existing information and data regarding the effectiveness of BMPs to control and reduce pollutants in urban storm water. The report provides a synopsis of what is currently known about the expected costs and environmental benefits of BMPs, and identifies information gaps as well.
Download or read book Preliminary Data Summary of Urban Storm Water Best Management Practices written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Stormwater Management in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries. These changes have degraded water quality and habitat in virtually every urban stream system. The Clean Water Act regulatory framework for addressing sewage and industrial wastes is not well suited to the more difficult problem of stormwater discharges. This book calls for an entirely new permitting structure that would put authority and accountability for stormwater discharges at the municipal level. A number of additional actions, such as conserving natural areas, reducing hard surface cover (e.g., roads and parking lots), and retrofitting urban areas with features that hold and treat stormwater, are recommended.
Download or read book Urban stormwater BMP performance monitoring a guidance manual for meeting the national stormwater BMP database requirements written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Use of Best Management Practices BMPs in Urban Watersheds written by Richard Field and published by DEStech Publications, Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents and compares all major stormwater/runoff control strategies ; New data on pollutant removal efficiencies, design, costs, environmental impacts and more ; Where and why to use the best techniques for limiting/monitoring diffuse pollution ; Provides the tools to meet regulations and improve water quality in urban/suburban watersheds"--From publisher's description.
Download or read book Storm Water Management for Industrial Activities written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluation of Best Management Practices for Highway Runoff Control written by National Cooperative Highway Research Program and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2006 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At head of title: National Cooperative Highway Research Program.
Download or read book Storm Water Management for Construction Activities written by US EPA and published by CRC-Press. This book was released on 1993-06-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide shows you how to develop and implement a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan specifically designed for your construction site. It should answer any questions you have regarding the NPDES General Permit for Storm Water Discharges from Construction Activities that are classified as "Associated with Industrial Activity" (referred to as EPA's Baseline Construction General Permit). Step-by-step guidelines and checklists walk you through the process of setting up your plan, which makes the book invaluable for consultants, regulators, and construction managers and engineers.
Download or read book Urban Stormwater written by Victorian Stormwater Committee, and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 1999-10-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intense concentration of human activity in urban areas leads to changes in both the quantity and quality of runoff that eventually reaches our streams, lakes, wetlands, estuaries and coasts. The increasing use of impervious surfaces designed to provide smooth and direct pathways for stormwater run-off, has led to greater runoff volumes and flow velocities in urban waterways. Unmanaged, these changes in the quantity and quality of stormwater can result in considerable damage to the environment. Improved environmental performance is needed to ensure that the environmental values and beneficial uses of receiving waters are sustained or enhanced. Urban Stormwater - Best-Practice Environmental Management Guidelines resulted from a collaboration between State government agencies, local government and leading research institutions. The guidelines have been designed to meet the needs of people involved in the planning, design or management of urban land uses or stormwater drainage systems. They provide guidance in ten key areas: *Environmental performance objectives *Stormwater management planning *Land use planning *Water sensitive urban design *Construction site management *Business surveys *Education and awareness *Enforcement *Structural treatment measures *Flow management Engineers and planners within local government, along with consultants to the development industry, should find the guidelines especially useful. Government agencies should also find them helpful in assessing the performance of stormwater managers. While developed specifically for application in Victoria, Australia, the information will be of value to stormwater managers everywhere.
Download or read book Evaluation of Urban Stormwater Pollutant Loadings Using Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN HSPF and Optimization of Urban Stormwater Best Management Practices BMPs written by Peter Paul Rausch and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2008 Spring Creek Fecal Coliform Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) attributed 13.7 percent of fecal coliform load to urban runoff and recommended a stormwater management plan (SWMP) be developed to guide best management practice (BMP) implementation for stormwater runoff control. To improve understanding of pollutant sources, behaviors, and loadings within the Spring Creek Watershed, and in turn guide development of the SWMP, an evaluation of fecal coliform, total suspended solids (TSS), and total phosphorus (TP) loadings from urban stormwater to Spring Creek was conducted. For fecal coliform and TSS, results from an existing, calibrated Hydrologic Simulation Program - FORTRAN (HSPF) model of the Spring Creek Watershed (Schmitz, 2011) were used to understand accumulation and washoff behaviors, as well as the significance of the urban stormwater load in relation to loads from the entire watershed. The urban area of focus is the city of Hill City, SD. Modeled results were compared for the years 2002 and 2010 as periods of dry and moist flow conditions, respectively. Results indicated that further study is required to understand the fecal coliform processes in the Schmitz model. However, the model indicated that the TSS load from Hill City stormwater in 2002 and 2010 accounted for 27 percent and 6.8 percent of the total TSS load in Spring Creek at the inlet to Mitchell Lake from March through October, respectively. This indicates a greater impact to Spring Creek during lower flows. During both periods, 70 percent of modeled daily average TSS concentrations in Spring Creek exceeding the single sample maximum of 53 mg/L occurred on days when precipitation was recorded in Hill City. This indicates that Hill City stormwater has a major impact on the daily water quality of Spring Creek. In addition, correlation of observed TSS and TP concentrations from 2002 and 2010 produces a correlation coefficient [(R2)] greater than 0.9. This indicates that removal of TSS from stormwater will inherently result in removal of TP. In addition to the pollutant analysis, a method for optimizing and recommending urban stormwater best management practices (BMPs) was developed for the SWMP. Because Spring Creek is currently impaired due to fecal coliform, emphasis was placed on this pollutant. Research has concluded that wet ponds and infiltration BMPs are the most effective for fecal coliform reduction (Clary, et al., 2008). To reduce high maintenance costs associated with sediment removal from these BMPs, it was recommended that they be implemented in series with dry ponds and vegetated swales. This will also reduce TSS load to Spring Creek, thus reducing the TP load. Wetland BMPs were not recommended for the Spring Creek Watershed due to potential TP production. Over 60 BMP alternatives were developed for the SWMP, each including estimates for initial cost, life cycle cost, and seasonal fecal coliform reduction. Sixteen optimum BMP alternatives were identified to treat all catchments with an estimated total initial cost of 5574,000 and total estimated fecal coliform reduction of [111 * 10'9] colony-forming units (cfu) per recreation season (May-September).
Download or read book Urban Runoff Pollution Prevention and Control Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Testing of Ultra urban Stormwater Best Management Practices written by Shaw L. Yu and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultra urban areas where conventional best management practices (BMPs) are neither feasible nor cost-effective present a challenge to stormwater management. Although new BMPs have been developed for such space limited environments, the field performance of these technologies is still largely undocumented. This study monitored the field performance of four ultra urban BMPs: three oil and grit separators (Isoilater, Stormceptor, and Vortechs Stormwater Treatment System) and a bioretention area. Storm sampling data for each site were analyzed to calculate the removal efficiency for each constituent monitored. Because the Vortechs system was installed improperly, its removal efficiency results in this study are not reliable. Therefore, the system could not be fully evaluated. The results of the study are site specific. The performance of the BMPs was affected by varying factors. The study, thus, concludes that the data and study site conditions must be evaluated carefully before results can be extrapolated to compare the relative and potential performance of a particular BMP under different site conditions.
Download or read book Urban Stormwater Management in the United States written by Committee on Reducing Stormwater Discharge Contributions to Water Pollution and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries. These changes have degraded water quality and habitat in virtually every urban stream system. The Clean Water Act regulatory framework for addressing sewage and industrial wastes is not well suited to the more difficult problem of stormwater discharges. This book calls for an entirely new permitting structure that would put authority and accountability for stormwater discharges at the municipal level. A number of additional actions, such as conserving natural areas, reducing hard surface cover (e.g., roads and parking lots), and retrofitting urban areas with features that hold and treat stormwater, are recommended.
Download or read book DayWater written by Daniel R. Thevenot and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European DayWater project has developed a prototype of an Adaptive Decision Support System (ADSS) related to urban stormwater pollution source control. The DayWater ADSS greatly facilitates decision-making for stormwater source control, which is currently impeded by the large number of stakeholders involved and by the necessary multidisciplinary knowledge. This book presents the results of this project, providing new insights into both technical and management issues. The main objectives of its technical chapters are pollution source control modelling, risk and impact assessment, and evaluation and comparison of best management practices. It also covers management aspects, such as the analysis of the decision-making processes in stormwater source control, at a European scale, and stormwater management strategies in general. The combination of scientific-technical and socio-managerial knowledge, with the strong cooperation of numerous end-users, reflects the innovative character of this book which includes actual applications of the ADSS prototype in significant case studies. DayWater: an Adaptive Decision Support System for Urban Stormwater Management contains 26 chapters collectively prepared by DayWater scientific partners and end-users associated with this European Research and Development project. It includes: A general presentation of the DayWater Adaptive Decision Support System (ADSS) structure and operation modes A detailed description of the major components of this ADSS prototype The assessment of its components in significant case studies in France, Germany and Sweden The proceedings of the International Conference on Decision Support Systems for Integrated Urban Water Management, held in Paris on 3-4 November 2005. The book presents the ADSS prototype including a combination of freely accessible on-line databases, guidance documents, “road maps” and modelling or multi-criteria analysis tools. As demonstrated in several significant case studies the challenge for stormwater managers is to make the benefits of urban stormwater management visible to society, resulting in active co-operation of a diversity of stakeholders. Only then, will sustainable management succeed. DayWater: an Adaptive Decision Support System for Urban Stormwater Management advances this cause of sustainable urban management through Urban stormwater management, and makes achievable (by means of risk and vulnerability tools which are included) the goal of integrated urban water management (IUWM).
Download or read book Stormwater written by Ben Urbonas and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1993 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised and updated, this second edition shows how to use new methods for controlling stormwater runoff. Contains up-to-date information on the latest developments in watershed and wetland detention, past management practices, new sizing calculations, as well as numerous complete designs based on actual, working detention facilities. On-the-job advice is aimed at civil, environmental and construction engineers, surveyors, stormwater managers, or anyone involved with runoff control.
Download or read book Urban Storm Water Management written by Hormoz Pazwash and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design Drainage and Storm Water Management Systems Efficiently Urban Storm Water Management, Second Edition covers the design, installation, and maintenance of storm water management systems, addresses the impact of urban development on runoff and infiltration, and focuses on storm water management relative to flooding and water pollution. Recogniz
