Impervious surfaces
Suspended particle characteristics in storm runoff from urban impervious surfaces in Toowoomba, Australia
... The measured EMC and the estimated runoff volume were multiplied to determine the particle load per unit area (in mg/m 2 ) washed off the impervious surfaces during each storm. NCP load statistics (mean of ...
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How do modern transportation projects impact on development of impervious surfaces via new urban area and urban intensification?:Evidence from Hangzhou Bay Bridge, China
... for impervious surface change analysis, particularly in the context of land use policy and ground transportation ...between impervious surface change, transportation projects and land use policy is an ...
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The impact of impervious surfaces on ecohydrology and health in urban ecosystems of Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
... pervious surfaces (IS) can be perceived as a part of a basin or as enclosed gravitational units (urban catch- ments – UC), where the cities are protected from rural area waters by a network of retaining ditches ...
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Commonality of rainfall variables influencing suspended solids concentrations in storm runoff from three different urban impervious surfaces
... Table 3: Statistical criteria used to identify significant explanatory variable models for NCP EMC Method Source Criterion function Comment AIC nlogRSS/n 2p1 Akaike’s An Akaike 1974 [r] ...
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Commonality of rainfall variables influencing suspended solids concentrations in storm runoff from three different urban impervious surfaces
... 3 4 Further statistical analysis found that a power relationship including rainfall depth and peak 5 6-minute rainfall intensity provided a fit to the measured NCP EMC data R2 =0.53-0.5[r] ...
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Project Report: Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Coastal Communities
... Low impact development (LID) and green infrastructure (GI) are approaches to stormwater management that can improve water and air quality, enhance recreational opportunities, improve quality-of-life, protect ecosystem ...
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Field-Scale Evaluation of the Water Quantity and Quality Benefits of Blue Roofs Compared to Green and Conventional Roofs.
... Impervious surfaces associated with urbanization alter hydrologic conditions. In ultra- urban areas where space is limited, rooftop stormwater control measures (SCMs) exploit under or non-utilized rooftop ...
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QUANTIFICATION OF THE HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS OF IMPERVIOUSNESS IN URBAN CATCHMENTS USING WIN TR-55
... with impervious surfaces and drainage channel modifications invariably result in significant changes to the flow regime of urban catchments resulting in flooding of the low lying areas during rains [2, 3, ...
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Beyond Impervious: Urban Land-Cover Pattern Variation and Implications for Water Quality.
... The link between surface water quality and urban land-cover has been well established through studies that have shown impervious surfaces are highly correlated with stream health and water quality (e.g., ...
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Land, Water, Infrastructure And People: Considerations Of Planning For Distributed Stormwater Management Systems
... When urbanization occurs, the removal of vegetation, compaction of soil and construction of impervious surfaces—roofs, asphalt, and concrete—and drainage infrastructure result in drastic changes to the ...
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Impervious Area Effects on Groundwater Inputs to Coastal Plain Streams
... In the southeastern U.S., population density has increased and urban land-use has rapidly expanded over the last quarter century. Future projections indicate that over the next 40 years there will be a 3-4 fold growth in ...
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Analysis of Impervious Surface Area, and the Impacts on Soil Based Agriculture and the Hydrologic Cycle: A Case Study in the Agricultural Land Reserve in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
... with impervious surfaces and to achieve the goal of the long-term sustainability and viability of British Columbia’s agricultural land ...of impervious structures to areas that are less productive ...
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ANALYZING POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF GREEN ROOFS IN FUTURE GROWTH SCENARIOS IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY
... so that the water begins to pool and move horizontally across the ground surface. The ground vegetation plays an important role at this time. The plants and their roots hold the soil in place preventing or slowing down ...
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GENERALIZED METHOD FOR ESTIMATING VARIABILITY IN DIRECTLY CONNECTED IMPERVIOUS AREAS Ahmed Said
... is impervious the runoff coefficient is close to unity and most precipitation runs ...the impervious areas are effective in generating ...of impervious surfaces may not directly connect to a ...
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Form-based solutions for watershed protection: a case study of the Jordan Lake nutrient strategy in North Carolina
... with impervious surfaces characteristic of urbanized areas is a key indicator of ambient water quality within the watershed (Arnold & Gibbons, ...1996). Impervious surfaces – roads, ...
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Stormwater particle characteristics of five different urban surfaces
... urban surfaces located in Toowoomba, Australia were made during storms from December 2004 to June ...2005. Impervious surfaces (a roof, carpark and a road) were monitored in addition to pervious ...
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A conceptual model of daily water balance following partial clearing from forest to pasture
... Total “impervious” area of a catchment mm2 Changes in ‘impervious’ area of a catchment mm2 Pervious area of the catchment mm2 Part of the catchment area reaching saturation mm2 Total[r] ...
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Platinum and the Refractory Oxides13-18
... In one instance rapid thermocouple failure was encountered when the same type of nominally impervious alumina thermo- couple sheath was inserted vertically upwards into the [r] ...
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Green-roof as a solution to solve stormwater management issues? Assessment on a long time period at the parcel scale
... Their performance is particularly relevant in volume regulation as substrate retention capacity is able to store a significant part of the rainfall. Achieving similar results with volume regulation infrastructures would ...
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Direct organocatalytic enantioselective functionalization of SiOx surfaces
... racemic surfaces prepared with the achiral catalyst DHPB lie between those observed for the films prepared with the chiral catalysts, supporting further that the adhesion is due to interactions between chiral ...
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