v * Corresponding author: [email protected] Rapid urban expansion, increased traffi c, ageing infrastructure, greater climatic variability, and the need for enhanced sustainability of urban water resources pose signifi cant challenges to conventional stormwater management. Innovative approaches are needed in order to mitigate the risk of fl ooding, pollution, and aquatic ecosystem degradat...

Emerging technologies of remote sensing and GIS were integrated to estimate runoff for watershed basins in China Taipei and Florida. Two basins were selected in each region, with each pair representing a static and a developing case. Remotely sensed images from the Landsat 4, 5, and 7 satellites were used to develop land cover maps of the study areas for the years 1990, 1995, and 2000. GIS anal...

Today, urban runoff is considered as an important source of environmental pollution. Roofing materials, in particular, the metallic ones, are considered as a major source of urban runoff metal contaminations. In the context of the European Water Directive (2000/60 CE), an accurate evaluation of contaminant flows from roofs is thus required on the city scale, and therefore the development of ass...

In urban and suburban areas, stormwater runoff is a primary stressor on surface waters. Conventional urban stormwater drainage systems often route runoff directly to streams and rivers, thus exacerbating pollutant inputs and hydrologic disturbance, and resulting in the degradation of ecosystem structure and function. Decentralized stormwater management tools, such as low impact development (LID...

Recently, rainwater management is considered as an essential means for recovering natural hydrological cycles in urban area. However, a lack of technical knowledge on the design of rainwater management system has been identified as a major hurdle preventing widespread application of rainwater management. This study focused on the application of design methods for rainwater management system. A ...

This research presents an integration of remote sensing and GIS for determining the runoff coefficient (C) recommended by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Water Pollution Control Federation in 1969. The C is a runoff index used as an input parameter in the most commonly used procedure: the rational method for storm-water runoff calculation in small urban watersheds for storm drai...

it is increasingly recognized that the land-use change, especially urbanization has influenced hydrological attributes intensely. but in most urban designs, flood prediction is considered through type of land use (residential, industrial, and so on) and density. however, experiences show that this method has not been very successful. as a result, the present study aims to investigate and explor...

Fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) have long been used as a marker of fecal pollution in surface waters subject to point source and non-point source discharges of treated or untreated human waste. In this paper, we set out to determine the source(s) of elevated FIB concentrations in Cucamonga Creek, a concrete-lined urban stream in southern California. Flow in the creek consists primarily of treate...