Download or read book Stormwater Infiltration and Focused Groundwater Recharge in a Rain Garden written by Alejandro R. Dussaillant and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Rain Gardens for Controlling Stormwater Runoff and Increasing Groundwater Recharge written by Jacob Schneider and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stormwater Infiltration written by Bruce Ferguson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stormwater infiltration is the most complete approach to stormwater management. Only infiltration can simultaneously solve problems of water quality, flood control, streambank erosion, aquifer recharge, and maintenance of downstream base flows and wetland hydroperiods. Stormwater Infiltration is the first book to explain the principles of natural science on which infiltration is based, how to apply infiltration to any region of the country, and what kinds of results can be expected. It brings into one publication the complete range of necessary information on soils, vegetation, infiltration, hydrology, design criteria, site layout, construction process for surface and subsurface basins, porous paving materials, feasibility, maintenance, and performance. It draws more than half a century's actual experiences from all over the United States to place stormwater management in a context of environmental balance and quality for human life.
Download or read book Sustainable Water Management Solutions for Large Cities written by International Association of Hydrological Sciences. Scientific Assembly and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creating Rain Gardens written by Apryl Uncapher and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homeowners spend hundreds of dollars watering their yard, but there is an easy way to save money and resources—rain gardening. But what is it? As simple as collecting rain to reuse in front and backyards. Creating Rain Gardens is a comprehensive book for the DIY-er, covering everything from rain barrels to simple living roofs, permeable patios, and other low-tech affordable ways to save water in the garden. Water conservation experts Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and Apryl Uncapher walk homeowners through the process, with step-by-step instructions for designing and building swales, French drains, rain gardens, and ephemeral ponds—the building blocks of rain-catching gardens. From soil preparation, planting, troubleshooting, and maintenance, to selecting palettes of water-loving plants that provide four-season interest and a habitat for wildlife, Creating Rain Gardens covers everything a gardener needs to create a beautiful rain garden at home.
Download or read book Sustainable Planning and Development written by Ēlias Beriatos and published by WIT Press (UK). This book was released on 2003 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing spatial planning and regional development in an integrated way as well as in accordance with the principles of sustainability, this book contains the proceedings of the first international conference on this subject.
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 Modeling Stormwater Rain Garden Performance written by Nicholas A. Manna and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green City, Clean Waters is a program run by Philadelphia Water (PWD) with the goal of reducing the impact of combined sewer overflows (CSOs). CSOs are caused by stormwater runoff due to impervious surfaces. Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) captures this stormwater before it reaches the combined sewers. The Monitoring, Analysis, and Research Support (MARS) group at PWD evaluates the performance of existing stormwater management practices. An accurate model of individual stormwater management practices can help to predict future performance and evaluate conclusions reached about existing performance. This thesis, completed by collaborators at Drexel University and PWD, develops and calibrates a rain garden model in R. The model processes influent volume, based on precipitation and drainage area. Volume of water infiltrated and ponded water level are calculated with time, and compared to observed water level. The Green-Ampt equation was selected as the governing method to model infiltration, which considers depth of water, soil porosity, suction head, and saturated hydraulic conductivity. The focus of the model is a rain garden at the Philadelphia Zoo. A simulated runoff test was performed in November 2016 that provided inflow and ponding data, as well as water level in an adjacent trench, that was used to calibrate the model. Following that, a significant storm was also modeled.
Download or read book Effect of Urban Stormwater Runoff on Ground Water Beneath Recharge Basins on Long Island New York written by Henry F. H. Ku and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Variability and Change written by Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (Project) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 117 reviewed papers from over 30 countries, published in English, French and Spanish, which reflect both international dimension of FRIEND and the key challenges facing hydrologists in the 21st century.
Download or read book Sustainable Residential Landscapes written by Carl Smith and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of 10 recently published academic articles addressing sustainable residential landscape design and planning across geographies, scales, and perspectives: from American rain garden design to South Korean urban forestry; from Mexican community open space design to Australian neighborhood park planning; and from Chinese urban design to Bolivian land-use change. This volume brings together authors from a growing community of landscape sustainability scholars of landscape architecture and architecture; planning and construction; ecology and horticulture; agricultural and environmental sciences; and health, exercise, and nutrition. In summary, these papers address facets of a fundamental challenge for the 21st century: the design and planning of sustainable and resilient human settlements.
Download or read book Modeling Hydrological Performance of Rain Garden Design Scenarios Across Pennsylvania written by Sophia Garito and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional stormwater management has focused on reducing urban flooding through the collection and channeling of stormwater; however, this has led to a series of undesirable environmental impacts downstream. More modern stormwater managements are now beginning to be utilized, known as green infrastructure. Rain gardens are green infrastructure features used to remove stormwater in urban areas by detaining and retaining runoff. GIFMod was used to model the hydrological performance of residential rain gardens based on the predominant soil characteristics in regions of Pennsylvania. The objectives of these simulations were to analyze the sensitivity of basic rain garden design factors and explore the variability in rain garden performance throughout Pennsylvania, based on the maximum ponding depth and ponding time of the rain garden. While rain garden hydrological performance varies depending on native soil, it was found that Pennsylvania soils can often accommodate stormwater loading ratios much larger than those currently recommended. Additionally, it was concluded that evapotranspiration provides negligible contributions to runoff reduction in residential rain gardens. It is recommended that the rain garden design sizing guidelines outlined in the Pennsylvania Stormwater Best Management Practices manual be revised, and rain garden sizing be determined based on the infiltration rates of the native soil compositions.
Download or read book Exploring Biotic and Social Aspects of Rain Gardens in Dane County Wisconsin written by Nicole M. Craig and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recent Developments in Energy and Environmental Engineering written by Rafid Al Khaddar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2022). It discusses the latest topics related to energy and environmental engineering. The topics covered include green and clean technologies, zero-energy buildings, solar energy, energy conservation and heat recovery, solar architecture, artificial intelligence for sustainable buildings, climate change, and plastic and air pollution. This book is useful for researchers and professionals working in the area of civil engineering and energy and environmental engineering.
Download or read book Handbook of Environmental Engineering written by Myer Kutz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide for both fundamentals and real-world applications of environmental engineering Written by noted experts, Handbook of Environmental Engineering offers a comprehensive guide to environmental engineers who desire to contribute to mitigating problems, such as flooding, caused by extreme weather events, protecting populations in coastal areas threatened by rising sea levels, reducing illnesses caused by polluted air, soil, and water from improperly regulated industrial and transportation activities, promoting the safety of the food supply. Contributors not only cover such timely environmental topics related to soils, water, and air, minimizing pollution created by industrial plants and processes, and managing wastewater, hazardous, solid, and other industrial wastes, but also treat such vital topics as porous pavement design, aerosol measurements, noise pollution control, and industrial waste auditing. This important handbook: Enables environmental engineers to treat problems in systematic ways Discusses climate issues in ways useful for environmental engineers Covers up-to-date measurement techniques important in environmental engineering Reviews current developments in environmental law for environmental engineers Includes information on water quality and wastewater engineering Informs environmental engineers about methods of dealing with industrial and municipal waste, including hazardous waste Designed for use by practitioners, students, and researchers, Handbook of Environmental Engineering contains the most recent information to enable a clear understanding of major environmental issues.
Download or read book On the Grid written by Scott Huler and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the systems of infrastructure that sustain the world and the cultures of historical periods, following various elements, from electricity and pavement to water and waste disposal, back to their origins and people who operate them.
Download or read book Sustainable Engineering written by Catherine Mulligan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Engineering: Principles and Implementation provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability as it applies to engineering and methods for implementation of sustainable practices. Due to increasing constraints on resources and on the environment and effects of climate change, engineers are being faced with new challenges. While it is generally believed that the concepts of sustainable design must be adhered to so that future generations may be protected, the execution and practice of these concepts are very difficult. It is therefore the focus of this book to give both a conceptual understanding as well as practical skills to apply sustainable engineering principles to engineering design. This book introduces relevant theory, principles, and ethical expectations for engineers, presents concepts related to industrial ecology, green engineering, and eco-design, and details frameworks that indicate the challenges and constraints of applying sustainable development principles. It describes the tools, protocols, and guidelines that are currently available through case studies and examples from around the world. The book is designed to be used by undergraduate and graduate students in any engineering program (with particular emphasis on civil, environmental and chemical engineering) and other programs in which sustainability is taught, in addition to practicing scientists and engineers and all others concerned with the sustainability of products, projects and processes. Specific Features: Discusses sources of contaminants and their impact on the environment Addresses sustainable assessment techniques, policies, protocols and guidelines Describes new tools and technologies for achieving sustainable engineering Includes social and economic sustainability dimensions Offers case studies demonstrating implementation of sustainable engineering practices
