Stormwater - The Water Research Foundation
Jul 23, 2024 · Without the benefit of natural filtration, stormwater flows directly to waterbodies, storm drains, and sewer systems, taking with it any debris, chemicals, bacteria, eroded soil, and other pollutants it picks up along the way.While new technologies and green infrastructure help reduce pollutant levels, many solutions are best equipped to handle ...
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The Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Benefit Cost Framework and Tool (Tool) provides stormwater practitioners with a systematic approach for quantifying and monetizing the financial, social, and environmental benefits of GSI at the community, watershed, or neighborhood scale.
Community-Enabled Lifecycle Analysis of Stormwater …
The goal of the CLASIC decision support system is to develop a robust, peer-reviewed, and end-user informed Life Cycle Cost (LCC) framework model for stormwater infrastructure alternatives that can accommodate regional and scale variations to support integrated planning at a …
stormwater management, reduce nuisance floodi ng, reduce irrigation needs, increase property values, and create long-lasting jobs for the local economy. GSI is an equitable approach for wet weather impacts because it is a tool that can mitigate situations that tend to disproportionately
the first stormwater research WRF undertook, and it is an area that WRF remains committed to today. Studying the effects of bacteria, nutrients, cyanotoxins, and invasive species, this research creates a better understanding of contaminants and provides innovative solutions to help stormwater managers monitor and treat them in order to
stormwater capture and use can add flexibility and diversity to water supply portfolios. Once seen as a nuisance, stormwater is part of a modern -day paradigm shift that recognizes it as an asset. There is an estimated 59.5 million acre -feet per year of stormwater runoff potentially
Sustainable Stormwater Management: Infiltration vs. Surface …
Stormwater managers are increasingly faced with the need to address many potentially conflicting issues as part of their activities, ranging from flood prevention to protection of downstream habitat. This research report is intended to aid in planning for sustainable stormwater management, with a focus on infiltration devices. The report follows the process of stormwater management, from …
With more than 130 stormwater projects, WRF’s research . helps utilities and municipalities manage stormwater and . green infrastructure to meet regulations, improve water . quality, reduce flooding, enhance climate resilience, and diversify their water supply. WRF research focuses on the big picture—stormwater as part of an integrated approach
Developing a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Library for Unit Processes …
Oct 15, 2024 · The objective of this research is to develop and establish the first Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data Utility (GHG EDU) to collate, share, and enable syntheses of GHG emissions data from Water Sector sources for higher accuracy and higher process-specificity emissions factors (EFs) and methodologies. Once well-populated, the GHG EDU would allow data-based …