Bioretention cell efficacy in cold climates: Part 1 — hydrologic performance

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
pp. 1210-1221 ◽  
Author(s):  
U.T. Khan ◽  
C. Valeo ◽  
A. Chu ◽  
B. van Duin
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiments ◽  
Peak Flow ◽  
Low Impact Development ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Simulation Experiments ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Development Technology ◽  
Cold Condition ◽  
Urban Stormwater Runoff

Bioretention cells are an emerging low impact development technology that address urban stormwater runoff concerns. Field and column experiments were conducted to assess the efficacy of bioretention cells in cold conditions. Field experiments in a prairie environment demonstrated a significant decrease (91.5%) in effluent volumes compared to influent volumes. The majority (∼60%) of the runoff percolated to the surrounding soils or evapotranspirated. Cold condition performance significantly impacted high volume events and was characterized by significantly higher effluent volumes, significantly lower runoff storage, higher effluent peak flow rates, and longer peak delays. A partially frozen surface layer caused the changes in performance. Long-term simulation experiments on the columns indicated a significant decrease in saturated hydraulic conductivity over the first 4 equivalent years of operation, before levelling to a constant value.

scholarly journals LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT MODELING TO MANAGE URBAN STORMWATER RUNOFF: CASE STUDY OF GORZÓW WIELKOPOLSK

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-115
Author(s):  
Ireneusz Nowogoński
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Peak Flow ◽  
Low Impact Development ◽  
Storage Tanks ◽  
Protection Agency ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Storm Water Management Model ◽  
Urban Stormwater Runoff

Uncontrolled urbanization causes local flooding and deterioration of the water quality of receivers as a result of an increase in peak flow rate and increased washing out of contaminants from the catchment area. Currently, classic storage tanks are most often used. An alternative solution may be the use of Low Impact Development (LID), i.e. the preservation and restoration of natural landscape elements, minimizing the imperviousness of the catchment in the form of rain barrels, permeable walkways or bio-retention reservoirs. The comparison of both techniques was carried out using the Environmental Protection Agency Storm Water Management Model (EPA SWMM). The influence of several solutions on a selected urbanized catchment located in Gorzów Wielkopolski was tested.

1002: Long Term Outcomes for Patients with High Volume Retroperitoneal Teratoma Undergoing Post Chemotherapy Surgery

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 331-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D.W. Beck ◽  
Richard S. Foster ◽  
Richard Bihrle ◽  
John P. Donohue
Keyword(s):  
High Volume ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
Retroperitoneal Teratoma

23: High Volume Hospitals do not have Better Long Term Outcomes Following Cystectomy for Bladder Cancer

2006 ◽  
Vol 175 (4S) ◽  
pp. 8-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent K. Hollenbeck ◽  
Yongliang Wei ◽  
John D. Birkmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Bladder Cancer ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Long Term Outcomes

Large-Scale Application of Biofiltration Swale Runoff Management Practices

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Peak Flow ◽  
Low Impact Development ◽  
Urban Runoff ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Check Dams ◽  
Runoff Reduction ◽  
Impervious Area ◽  
Hydrologic Responses

Retaining rainfall where it lands is a fundamental benefit of Low Impact Development (LID). The Delaware Urban Runoff Management Model (DURMM) was developed to address the benefits of LID design. DURMM explicitly addresses the benefits of impervious area disconnection as well as swale flow routing that responds to flow retardance changes. Biofiltration swales are an effective LID BMP for treating urban runoff. By adding check dams, the detention storage provided can also reduce peak rates. This presentation explores how the DURMM runoff reduction approach can be integrated with detention routing procedures to project runoff volume and peak flow reductions provided by BMP facilities. This approach has been applied to a 1,200 unit project on 360 hectares located in Delaware, USA. Over 5 km of biofiltration swales have been designed, many of which have stone check dams placed every 30 to 35 meters to provide detention storage. The engineering involved in the design of such facilities uses hydrologic modeling based upon TR-20 routines, as adapted by the DURMM model. The hydraulic approach includes routing of flows through the check dams. This presentation summarizes the hydrological network, presents the hydrologic responses, along with selected hydrographs to demonstrate the potential of design approach.

Monitoring Effects of Catchment Management Practices on Phosphorus Loads into the Eutrophic Peel-Harvey Estuary, Western Australia

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 53-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. B. Birch ◽  
G. G. Forbes ◽  
N. J. Schofield
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Major Change ◽  
High Flow ◽  
Catchment Management ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Early Results ◽  
Phosphorus Loads ◽  
Time Of Year ◽  
High Runoff

Early results from monitoring runoff suggest that the programme to reduce application of superphosphate to farmlands in surrounding catchments has been successful in reducing input of phosphorus to the eutrophic Peel-Harvey estuary. In the estuary this phosphorus fertilizes algae which grow in abundance and accumulate and pollute once clean beaches. The success of the programme has been judged from application of an empirical statistical model, which was derived from 6 years of data from the Harvey Estuary catchment prior to a major change in fertilizer practices in 1984. The model relates concentration of phosphorus with rate of flow and time of year. High phosphorus concentrations were associated with high flow rates and with flows early in the high runoff season (May-July). The model predicted that the distribution of flows in 1984 should have resulted in a flow-weighted concentration of phosphorus near the long-term average; the observed concentration was 25% below the long-term average. This means that the amount of phosphorus discharged into the Harvey Estuary could have been about 2 5% less than expected from the volume of runoff which occurred. However several more years of data are required to confirm this trend.

scholarly journals Effects of disk tillage on soil condition, crop yield and weed infestation

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
M. Birkás ◽  
T. Szalai ◽  
C. Gyuricza ◽  
M. Gecse ◽  
K. Bordás
Keyword(s):  
Winter Wheat ◽  
Crop Yield ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Soil Layer ◽  
Soil Condition ◽  
Perennial Weeds ◽  
Weed Infestation ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Different Levels

This research was instigated by the fact that during the last decade annually repeated shallow disk tillage on the same field became frequent practice in Hungary. In order to study the changes of soil condition associated with disk tillage and to assess it is consequences, long-term tillage field experiments with different levels of nutrients were set up in 1991 (A) and in 1994 (B) on Chromic Luvisol at Gödöllö. The effects of disk tillage (D) and disk tillage combined with loosening (LD) on soil condition, on yield of maize and winter wheat, and on weed infestation were examined. The evaluation of soil condition measured by cone index and bulk density indicated that use of disking annually resulted in a dense soil layer below the disking depth (diskpan-compaction). It was found, that soil condition deteriorated by diskpan-compaction decreased the yield of maize significantly by 20 and 42% (w/w), and that of wheat by 13 and 15% (w/w) when compared to soils with no diskpan-compaction. Averaged over seven years, and three fertilizer levels, the cover % of the total, grass and perennial weeds on loosened soils were 73, 69 and 65% of soils contained diskpan-compaction.

Critical plant phosphorus for winter wheat assessed from long-term field experiments

2021 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 126263
Author(s):  
Mario Fontana ◽  
Gilles Bélanger ◽  
Juliane Hirte ◽  
Noura Ziadi ◽  
Saïd Elfouki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Winter Wheat ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Term Field
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