Green infrastructure consists of ecosystems that provide valuable services to urban areas. Constructed ecosystems, including green roofs, bioretention systems, constructed wetlands and bioreactors are artificial, custom-built components of green infrastructure that are becoming more common in cities. Small size, strong spatial boundaries, ecological novelty and the role of human design characte...

The objectives of this study were to characterize asphalt parking lot (APL) runoff quality, to determine influent factors to predict nutrient concentrations and loads from eight sites in North Carolina and to assess two grassed bioretention cell efficiencies to remove APL runoff pollutants. From the eight APL sites, event mean concentrations (EMCs) and loads were measured and statistically anal...

Abstract The performance of blue-green infrastructures (BGIs) has been well documented in temperate and subtropical climates, but evidence supporting their application cold especially during snowmelt, is still scarce. To address this gap, the present study proposes a modeling method for simulating bioretention cells snowmelt according to different spatial implementation scenarios. We used Storm...

Bioretention systems are globally the most accepted Low Impact Development (LID) practices. In this study, we simulated bioretention performances for four locations in city of Novi Sad, with RECARGA modelling software. The primary objective research was to evaluate potential runoff reduction. second suggest model as a support future decision-making processes. Analysis sensitivity design paramet...

Bioretention basins are frequently subjected to anaerobic conditions, which can create an optimum environment for microbial activities remove nitrogen (N) and sequester carbon (C) in the below-ground filter media. However, these biological processes associated with potential production of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that need be measured. In this study, we quantified nitrous oxide (N 2 O), m...

Sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) help in stormwater management by reducing runoff volume, increasing concentration time and thereby improving the system capacity. This study investigated potential cost-effectiveness of SuDS combined sewer overflows (CSOs). We simulated performance four techniques (bioretention cell, permeable pavement, rain barrel green roof) at incremental levels spat...

In the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s National Water Quality Inventory in 2000, 13% of the river and stream miles that were surveyed were impaired by pathogen indicator bacteria (USEPA 2002). Stormwater runoff is a transport mechanism for indicator bacteria to receiving waters, resulting in an increased risk to public health through consumption of contaminated shellfish or inge...