Watershed Retrofit and Management Evaluation for Urban Stormwater Management Systems in North Carolina

Operationalizing Scale in Watershed-based Stormwater Management

Watershed-based stormwater management (WSM) has been proposed as more effective for stormwater management than traditional methods of controlling stormwater, which are carried out based on jurisdictional lines at the parcel-scale. Because WSM considers the watershed as a total unit, this method is considered to be more effective in reducing problems associated with stormwater management includi...

Role of Resilience in Sustainable Urban Stormwater Management

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 thecriterion based on flood volume no longer suffices for selecting urban drainage solutions. Therefore there is a need to consider a set of holis...

Urban Stormwater Management: Challenges and Potential Solutions

Management of stormwater brings considerable economic, social and environmental benefits to the community in various ways. Controlling stormwater quantity is primarily important to prevent urban flooding and water stagnation. Also improving stormwater quality is timely important issue for sustainable management of urban stormwater. Urban development accompanied by increasing in impervious surfa...

Analysis of Urban Stormwater Best Management Practice Options for the St. Joseph River Watershed

Toward better practices in infiltration regulations for urban stormwater management

Infiltration of runoff at the plot-scale is increasingly considered as an effective tool to improve urban water management. As a consequence, authorities in different countries adopt regulations prescribing the infiltration of stormwater in new developments. Here we apply a simple sizing procedure for plotscale infiltration facilities to examine the consequences, in terms of implementation, of ...