Increased urbanization has resulted in water quality and flooding problems for many receiving waters in the United States. Bioretention, or rain gardens, is one of the most widely popular and effective best management practices in low impact development (LID), which strives to return a watershed to a predevelopment hydrologic regime. Many studies have evaluated large bioretention cells in resea...

Climate stationarity is a traditional assumption in the design of urban drainage network, including green infrastructure practices such as bioretention cells. Predicted deviations from historic climate trends associated with global change introduce uncertainty ability these systems to maintain service levels future. projections are made using output coarse-scale general circulation models (GCMs...

Bioretention systems are a popular type of Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS). However, their largest single component, the fill media, is often non-sustainably sourced material. This study evaluates bioretention media comprising 100% recycled waste components. The components come from multiple streams, quarry construction sector, crushed glass and green compost domestic waste, sugar-beet washi...

One of the principal components of the contaminant load in urban stormwater runoff is oil and grease (O&G) pollution, resulting from vehicle emissions. A mulch layer was used as a contaminant trap to remove O&G (dissolved and particulate-associated naphthalene, dissolved toluene, and dissolved motor oil hydrocarbons) from a synthetic runoff during a bench-scale infiltration study. Approximately...