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Enhanced Passive Stormwater Infiltration Improves Urban Melia Azedarach Functioning in Dry Season

open access: yesFrontiers in Climate, 2022
Urban water management projects involving stormwater harvesting, detention, and infiltration are being increasingly combined with urban greening to support adaptation and resilience to the changing climate.
Xanthia Gleeson   +5 more
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Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Road-Deposited Sediments and Correlation Distribution of DOM and Heavy Metals in Beijing, China

open access: yesToxics
Road-deposited sediments (RDS) from 28 sites in Beijing were studied and analyzed for eight heavy metals. In RDS, the levels of Cr, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Cd, Pb and V were 2.76, 1.11, 2.40, 1.65, 1.09, 6.52, 4.13 and 0.06 times the background values ...
Donghai Yuan   +7 more
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Integrating Better Stormwater Management Practices in Urban Stormwater Pollution Modeling [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Water Management Modeling, 1998
In Germany and elsewhere, discussion of alternative methods of urban stormwater management have led to the belief that an economically and ecologically sound c…
Ralph Mehler, Manfred Ostrowski
openaire   +1 more source

Urban rainwater resource utilization: A sustainable environmental impact assessment using life cycle assessment (LCA) and water balance model

open access: yesDesalination and Water Treatment
Urban water management is facing significant challenges due to rapid urbanisation and climate change, such as increased water demand and reduced water availability.
Xiande Hu, Fenfei Gu
doaj   +1 more source

Integrated Urban Stormwater Management and Planning for New Township Development in Malaysia

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
The on-going Kwasa Damansara Township development is aspire to be a township development with an initiative to unlock the land value and spur development in the region, and demands a high quality built environment.
Chang Chun Kiat   +2 more
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Decision Criteria for the Development of Stormwater Management Systems in Poland

open access: yesResources, 2020
Progressing urbanisation is one of the key causes of environmental degradation. This problem also applies to stormwater management. For this reason, drainage infrastructures should be designed in harmony with nature and the decision for selecting a ...
Sabina Kordana, Daniel Słyś
doaj   +1 more source

Towards sustainable urban stormwater management

open access: yesWater Supply, 2004
New directives for the management of urban stormwater prioritize infiltration and direct discharge into receiving waters. This requires innovative new stormwater facilities in urban areas. Besides hydraulic requirements for retention and infiltration capacity, the pollutants contained in the runoff water are of primary importance in future stormwater ...
openaire   +1 more source

Optimization of Physical Property of Constructed Wetland Using Simulation-Optimization Model (MUSIC-GA)

open access: yesعلوم آب و خاک, 2017
Nowadays, urbanization is a common process which replaces vegetation cover with impervious areas. This process increases urban stormwater. A new tendency in urban stormwater management endorses ‘source control’, whereby distributed water sensitive urban ...
M. Montaseri   +2 more
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Role of Resilience in Sustainable Urban Stormwater Management [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Hydraulic Structures, 2013
Typically, best management practices (BMPs) are implemented to help sustainable stormwater management in urban areas. Over recent decades the selection of urban stormwater management measures for a site has been a challenge among urban planners where ...
Yaser Tahmasebi Birgani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating Drone-Captured Sub-Catchment Topography with Multiphase CFD Modelling to Enhance Urban Stormwater Management

open access: yesEngineering Proceedings
In this study, a drone-captured spatial data point cloud is used as input for creating a high-resolution modelling domain that accurately represents urban stormwater sub-catchments’ topography.
Katrin Kaur   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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