Urban Runoff Research Articles

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An Analysis of the Use of Buoyant Flow Control Devices to Mitigate the Effects of Urban Runoff

An Analysis of the Use of Buoyant Flow Control Devices to Mitigate the Effects of Urban Runoff

Karvonen, Andrew (2011). Politics of Urban Runoff. Nature, Technology and the Sustainable City

Karvonen, Andrew (2011)Politics of Urban Runoff. Nature, Technology and the Sustainable CityCambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 288 p.ISBN 978-0-262-51634-1

Experimental Study on Treatment of Urban Runoff by Embankment Flow System

Test by establishing different embankment flowing systems studied the combination of different substrates and different plants purification efficiency and the effect on the stability of the efficiency of the flowing system. Results show that, the mixed matrix(loess, sand and brown loam) is more efficiency than the single matrix, especially for suspended solid (SS), ammonia (NH3-N), total phosphorus (TP) removal, the removal rate is over 60%. Tall fescue (Festuca elata Keng ex E. Alexeev) is more suitable for the flowing system than perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). And, long running of the system is possible.

Temporal Variability of Heavy Metals in Suburban Road Runoff in a Rainy Cold Climate

Road runoff contains toxic heavy metals that can threaten the water quality of urban water systems. This paper characterizes the time variability of heavy metal pollution in road runoff in a 9 ha, steep (12% slope), suburban, rainy (235 rainy days; 1,120 mm per annum), cold climate catchment. Twenty-three water samples, collected during six discrete runoff events spanning 1 year, were analyzed for total and dissolved heavy metal concentrations. The most abundant pollutants were Zn (46 μg/L), Cu (14 μg/L), and Cr and Ni (2.3–2.5 μg/L). Zn, As and Cd were predominantly dissolved (>70%), Ni was primarily bound to particulates (68%), and Cu and Cr were equally divided between phases. Elevated dissolved and total concentrations were measured during snowmelt in correlation with high electrical conductance reflecting the use of road salt as a deicing agent. Event mean concentrations were positively correlated to wind speed and negatively correlated to rainfall depth in the two antecedent weeks. A mild first flush of dissolved metals was observed in most events, with 40–50% of pollution mass being discharged in the first 30% of runoff volume. Particulate-bound heavy metals, however, only exhibited first flush during intensive snowmelt. A strong linear correlation was observed between particulate-bound heavy metals and total suspended solids (TSS) (R²=0.8–0.9), corresponding to 0.45, 0.22, 0.05, and 0.06 μg/mg TSS slope for Zn, Cu, Cr, and Ni, respectively. Overall, the pollution levels were moderate compared with residential catchments in northern Europe and North America, which may constrain runoff treatment efficiency.

Evaluation of Various Design Configurations of a Tree Box Filter Treating Urban Runoff using SWMM

Urban stormwater runoff was considered to be more contaminated than the runoff from other land uses due to vehicle and human activities. Specifically, road runoff was commonly regarded as the primary pollutant (e.g. particulates and heavy metals) in the urban environment. Effectiveness of stormwater management strategies and treatment facilities in treating road runoff were highly based on the accuracy of the stormwater quantity and quality estimation. Although direct sampling of runoff during a storm event effectively quantifies the contaminant contributions in a specific area, it is expensive and time consuming. In order to efficiently design these treatment facilities based from the typical pollutant and hydrologic processes, the operation of modelling techniques were recommended. In this research, the physical characteristics of an existing tree box filter treating road runoff were adjusted using stormwater management model (SWMM) to determine the most suitable design configuration for better volume and pollutant reduction. The catchment area (CA), storage volume (SV) and surface area (SA) of the facility was increased or decreased by an increment of 25%. These changes were simulated by SWMM and would predict the influence of larger or smaller CA, SV or SA with respect to the facility performance. The hydrologic, hydraulic and water quality data used in the modelling were gathered from the 10 storm events monitored from July 2012 to July 2013. The total suspended solids were considered as the main target pollutants for this research however, the results will be correlated with the common heavy metal constituents present in the sampled runoff. Various design installations (e.g. series and parallel installation of tree box filter) were also modelled to accurately justify the obtained design configurations. Among the different configurations simulated, increasing the original values of the CA, SV and SA between 0.75% and twice the original value would result to better performance for the system. As for the installations being modelled, a centralized system would provide better volume and pollutant reduction than a divided system.

Comparison of Indicator Bacteria Concentrations Obtained by Automated and Manual Sampling of Urban Storm-Water Runoff

A comparative study of indicator bacteria concentrations obtained by laboratory analysis of grab samples of storm water, which were collected manually or by automatic samplers, was carried out in two urban catchments. Samples were analyzed for four types of indicator bacteria, total coliforms, Escherichia coli (E. coli), enterococci, and Clostridium perfringens and further documented by measurements of total suspended solids (TSS) and turbidity. Analysis of complete data sets (N = 198) indicated no statistically significant differences in the geometric means of all the constituent samples collected automatically or manually, but there were some small differences between the results produced by the two sampling methods applied. Total coliform concentrations were positively biased in samples collected by automatic samplers, but for the three remaining indicator bacteria (E. coli, enterococci, and C. perfringens), the opposite was true. Risk of sample cross-contamination in automatic samplers was assessed in the laboratory by sampling consecutively synthetic storm water with high and low concentrations of E. coli and enterococci. The first low-concentration samples preceded by high-concentration samples were cross-contaminated and the measured concentrations were positively biased. This cross-contamination was explained by storm-water residue in the sampling line. Such a residue remained in place even after line purging by compressed air, and its mass depended on the sampling line length (tested up to 5 m), as verified by measurements in the laboratory. The study findings should be helpful for improving field protocols for indicator bacteria sampling.

Design and Construction of an Urban Runoff Research Facility

Design and Construction of an Urban Runoff Research Facility

Analysis to Select Filter Media and The Treatment Effect of Non-point Pollution Source in Road Runoff

This study selected and analyzed filter media that can be applied in non-point pollution reduction devices aimed at processing the source of pollution on site for road runoff that increases rapidly in rainfall-runoff in order to improve the water quality of urban areas. First, the factors that affect the quality of runoff caused by sources of non-point pollution include physical and social factors such as the usage of land around the area of water collection, type of pavement and movement of cars and people, as well as rainfall characteristics such as frequency, intensity, amount and duration of rainfall. Second, the purification tests of the filter media were processed for pH, BOD, COD and T-P, and the filter media showed to have initial purification effect at that items. However, the filter media showed to be very effective for the processing of SS, T-N, Zn and Cd from the beginning to the end. Third, for filter media, zeolite and vermiculite showed to be effective for processing SS, T-N, Zn and CD constantly, and composite filter media including zeolite showed to have strong processing effects. The authors conclude that this study can be applied to technical areas and policies aimed at reducing non-point pollution in urban areas and can also contribute to allowing eco-friendly management of rainfall as well as improvement of water quality.

Isotopic characterization of water and bottom and suspended sediment in the estuarine complex of Nova Viçosa - Caravelas (BA - Brazil). A study of contributions from organic sources.

In this work, we use environmental isotopes δ 13 C and δ 15 N and the atomic C/N ratio of surface sediment collected at 20 points, with suspended sediment also collected at five points. We analyzed the δ 13 C CID of dissolved inorganic carbon and the δ 18 O, δD and salinity of water samples collected at the same 20 points in the Nova Vicosa – Caravels Estuary. This region is characterized by the influence of the entrance of the main channel in the estuary of Caravels and of the river Peruipe in Estuary Nova Vicosa. The highest values ​​of δ 13 C CID in the sediment and of dissolved inorganic carbon in the water occur at Bar Caravels, and the highest values ​​of TOC and C/N ratio occur in two of the channels between Caravels and Nova Vicosa. The isotopic ratio of carbon and nitrogen indicates that the organic matter analyzed comes from terrestrial material, and the study of mangrove estuaries did not demonstrate a significant impact of pollution from urban runoff on the Nova Vicosa – Caravels Estuary.

Urban Stormwater Runoff Nitrogen Composition and Fate in Bioretention Systems

Multiple chemical forms of nitrogen in urban stormwater make its management challenging. Sixteen storm events were monitored and analyzed for total nitrogen (TN), particulate organic nitrogen (PON), nitrate (NO3-N), nitrite (NO2-N), ammonium (NH3-N), and dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) in stormwater runoff and in treated discharge through a conventional bioretention cell. Influent PON can be effectively removed via bioretention sedimentation/filtration, NH3-N by ion exchange/sorption, and NO2-N by oxidation. However, significant DON and NO3-N leached from the bioretention cell, resulting in only 9% net overall TN concentration reduction. Captured PON and vegetation detritus in the bioretention cell can be leached as DON or mineralized into NO3-N. The effluent N is dominated by NO3-N (46%) and DON (42%). Therefore, in addition to creating denitrification conditions for NO3-N, preventing DON leaching is also critical for effective nitrogen removal though bioretention systems. The bioretention cell exhibited a moderate mass load reduction for TN (41%), which mainly results from runoff volume reduction.

Fate and Behavior of Pollutants in a Vegetated Pond System for Road Runoff

Road runoff contains a variety of contaminants that threaten aquatic systems. Pollutant mitigation is therefore an important function of sustainable drainage systems such as vegetated ponds. Vegetated ponds have a variety of treatment mechanisms that potentially can remove different pollutants. However, design is predominantly based on “black box” approaches. This study monitored a swale and vegetated pond receiving road runoff over two years to investigate the interaction of various pollutant removal processes. Storm runoff, pond water, and sediments were monitored for general water quality, metals, hexane extractable hydrocarbons and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). A non‐exponential “first flush” was apparent for biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, and solids with higher concentrations seen during the early stages of storms; however, for hydrocarbons and PAHs peak concentrations were often seen later in storm events. Due to interference from natural compounds, PAHs are probably more appropriate than hexane extracts for tracking runoff pollutant fate. Pyrene, despite having low concentrations in water, accumulated in soils and sediments (median = 850 µg/g). Naphthalene was more mobile, but was effectively removed in the pond. Metals had similar concentrations to other studies, with large removals of particularly Cu and Zn. However, metals exhibited different deposition patterns, with Zn and Cu accumulating in pond inlet sediments and Ni and Cr accumulating at the outlet. The different behaviors and fates of pollutants means that refining design guidance is difficult and requires consideration of how specific mechanisms may be enhanced for prioritizing removal of pollutants that pose the greatest risk.

Comparative Assessment of Urban Flood Risks due to Urbanization and Climate Change in the Turnhout Valley of Belgium

The combined effect of urbanization and climate change on catchment runoff has been drawing attention in the recent years to assess the impact of climate change on urbanizing catchments. There has been extensive development of paved areas within the city of Turnhout in Belgium in combination with several modifications of the neighbouring rivers. Moreover, the city authority has decided to encourage more densification of housing and industries within or next to the cores, which would lead to frequent overflows out of the existing combined sewer system. This combination leads to a faster flow of larger quantities of water which physically cannot be retained by the valleys over this region and thus causes increasingly frequent and harmful flood events affecting agricultural lands. The situation could be indisputably exacerbated under climate change scenarios. This study focuses on assessing the effects of urban development and climate change on flood risks in the downstream of Turnhout. For this study, a lumped conceptual hydrological model NAM was developed for generating runoff from the catchment. The CCI-HYDR perturbation tool, developed by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, was applied to generate time series of future rainfall and evapotranspiration. The urban runoffs were obtained from the simulation of existing InfoWorks CS model under both current and climate change (A1B, A2, B1 and B2) scenarios. Rainfall-runoff was then uniformly distributed along the river reaches and urban runoff was applied as point source boundary conditions in the calibrated and validated MIKE 11 river flood model. Composite hydrographs with different return periods for all the boundary conditions were generated through extreme value analysis. The results show intensified and more frequent peak runoff resulting from combined effect of urbanization and climate change, in comparison to the individual effect of urbanization or climate change each. The increased peak runoff in the river due to heavy rainfall coinciding with development of paved surfaces within the city would lead to severe urban flooding when urbanization and climate change scenarios are accounted for.

Phosphorus Stabilization in Constructed Wetlands under Changing Hydroclimatic Conditions

Although there is a reduction in P reaching aquatic systems from point sources, non-point sources such as urban and agricultural runoffs are bringing substantial amounts of phosphorus (P) into aquatic systems as the storm events are quite common due to climatic changes in various parts of the world, and making eutrophication of surface water a global concern. Constructed wetlands could play important roles in stabilizing P; hence reduce eutrophication of natural aquatic and semi-aquatic ecosystems. However, the selection of the construction site may well determine the effectiveness of a constructed wetland. This study shows that P transformation in soils is crucial for P sequestration in a wetland rather than the amounts of native P. Using 31Phosphorus Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (31P NMR), previously unreported an active organic P form, phosphorarginine, was identified. This study indicates that constructing wetlands on organic P-enriched sites may not solve the P loading to water bodies as the organic P compounds would not be as stable as they were thought, thus can play a crucial role in eutrophication, after all.

Oil Pollution in the Marine Environment I: Inputs, Big Spills, Small Spills, and Dribbles

The BP Deepwater Horizon Macondo Oil Well spill in the Gulf of Mexico three years ago renewed and reinforced concerns about oil pollution in the marine environment. This article is intended to prov...

Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Heavy Metals Concentration in Urban Stormwater Runoff

In order to know the characteristic of spatial and temporal distribution of heavy metal concentrations in urban stormwater runoff, rainfall runoff from impervious underlying surfaces in urban region was observed during rain events. Results showed that during the precipitation process, heavy metal concentrations decreased gradually temporally (except Cd); concentrations of Fe, Cu and Zn meet Class III standard of Environmental Quality Standards for Surface Water in terminal runoff, but concentrations of Cd and Pb go beyond this standard far. Heavy metal concentrations in runoff from different types of landuses were significantly different. The arithmetic average concentrations of Fe, Cd, Cu and Zn in stormwater runoff from roof (e.g.,34.4mg/L, 0.15mg/L, 1.25mg/L and 1.23mg/L, respectively) were obviously higher than that in stormwater runoff from road (e.g., 11.8mg/L, 0.05mg/L, 0.13mg/L and 0.69mg/L, respectively).

Potential Contributions of Mature Prairie and Turfgrass to Phosphorus in Urban Runoff

Urban vegetative plantings are considered desirable to mitigate and filter stormwater runoff and nonpoint-source pollution. Phosphorus fertilization of turfgrass may enhance P in urban runoff; however, the amount of P from nonfertilized, native vegetation that could potentially replace some turf is not known. This study was conducted to measure the relative contributions of nonfertilized, native prairie vegetation and fertilized turfgrass to runoff water and P loads. Six replicates of side-by-side mature urban prairie and turfgrass were monitored for mean annual runoff volumes and P loads, biomass production, vegetative nutrient composition, and changes in soil moisture. Vegetation type did not significantly affect seasonal or annual runoff volumes or P loads. The mean annual total P loads of 0.46 kg ha for prairie and 0.28 kg ha for turfgrass were significant and comparable to those reported by other researchers when studied separately. Total P concentrations in runoff water from prairie and turf vegetation were above USEPA limits, averaging 1.86 and 1.63 mg L, respectively, over 2 yr. Averaged across 2 yr, 78% of runoff P was collected when the soil was frozen. Biomass P reductions over the period of November to April were strongly related to quantities of runoff total P from frozen soil ( = 0.874). Phosphorus losses from urban areas appeared to be primarily correlated with runoff depth, not vegetation type, because correlation coefficients revealed 86 and 45% of the Year 1 and Year 2 total P loads were directly accounted for by runoff volumes.

Leaf-litter processing in headwater streams of northern Iberian Peninsula: moderate levels of eutrophication do not explain breakdown rates

Agricultural and urban runoffs result in increased nitrogen and phosphorus inputs in rivers and are the cause of eutrophication. Headwater streams are less frequently affected by these impairments because of the low-to-moderate human activities there. Eutrophication can affect the structure and function of benthic communities in headwater streams, stimulating the activity of heterotrophic microorganisms and macroinvertebrates on a pivotal process such as leaf-litter decomposition. In this study, we monitored the breakdown of alder leaves in six headwater streams that constitute a moderate nutrient enrichment gradient. Breakdown experiments were conducted in autumn–winter and leaf carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, and associated aquatic hyphomycetes and macroinvertebrates were determined. The increase in nutrient availability in the stream water enhanced leaf-litter quality and led to an increase in the hyphomycete assemblage evenness and a reduction of shredder densities. However, contrary to our expectations, dissolved nutrient availability did not explain the breakdown rates. Thus, the absence of a clear effect of nutrient enrichment of stream water on the leaf breakdown rate highlights the difficulties of predicting the response of this ecosystem process to slight levels of eutrophication in headwater streams.

An Optimization Method for Estimating Constituent Mean Concentrations in Base Flow‐Dominated Flow

AbstractPollutant coefficients have been widely used to assess runoff nonpoint source pollution from individual land uses (e.g., agricultural, residential) of a watershed. Pollutant coefficients, known as event mean concentrations (EMCs), were developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Nationwide Urban Runoff Program (NURP) to serve as a national measure for characterizing pollutant loading in a receiving water body. The term “baseflow pollutant coefficient (BPC)” is used in this study as a surrogate for EMC to describe mean concentration of pollutants in base flow‐dominated flow. A method for characterizing base flow quantity and quality for different land uses was explored using inverse modeling with two optimization techniques (a least square method and a genetic algorithm [GA] optimization), land use information, and streamflow quantity and quality data. The inverse model was formulated as a constrained minimization problem and demonstrated with data for 15 watersheds in Indiana. Results showed that estimated pollutant coefficients are comparable to the published literature. This indicates that the proposed method has the potential to effectively estimate constituent mean concentrations for pollutant load determination in gauged and ungauged watersheds, albeit more analysis with larger and more robust datasets is desirable to further refine and validate the accuracy of the approach.

Relationship between Urban Runoff Pollutant and Catchment Characteristics

Much research has been done to determine levels of contamination in runoff from urban and rural catchment areas. Some authors compare their results with other authors or look for relationships between the variations of pollutant concentration and the catchment characteristics, but they seldom focus on determining the statistical significance of their results. This paper presents a review of 37 papers selected from a total of 169 papers consulted about runoff-water quality throughout the world (America, Asia, and Europe). The results presented in these 37 papers have been reviewed and statistically analyzed to evaluate the influence of catchment-area characteristics (location, size, average daily traffic, and type of land use) on the storm water runoff pollution. For the cases studied, most of the results about the polluting agents studied are comparable and no important element of the catchment characteristics had significant influence on the pollutants’ concentration.