TY - JOUR
T1 - Hydrologic processes that govern stormwater infrastructure behaviour
AU - Eger, Caitlin G.
AU - Chandler, David G.
AU - Driscoll, Charles T.
N1 - Funding Information:
National Science Foundation, Grant/Award Numbers: DGE‐1449617 and SES‐1444755; Surdna Foundation, Grant/Award Number: 20140225; Syracuse University
Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants DGE‐1449617 and SES‐1444755, the Surdna Foundation under Grant 20140225, and a Syracuse University Fellowship awarded to CE. Gratitude to Cliff Davidson, Babak Kasaee Roodsari, Kathy Fallon Lambert, Peter Groffman, Neil Bettez, and Christa Kelleher for their feedback, as well as Thomas Evans, Aditi Padhye and Megan Daley for editing and literature review. Special thanks to Nicholas Hamilton for development of the ggtern package for producing ternary plots in R (Hamilton, 2016). Lastly, this publication relies heavily on the hard work of many other academics, professionals, and students over the past 50 years, we are grateful for their contributions of water budget data to the literature.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PY - 2017/12/15
Y1 - 2017/12/15
N2 - Using water budget data from published literature, we demonstrate how hydrologic processes govern the function of various stormwater infrastructure technologies. Hydrologic observations are displayed on a Water Budget Triangle, a ternary plot tool developed to visualize simplified water budgets, enabling side-by-side comparison of green and grey approaches to stormwater management. The tool indicates ranges of hydrologic function for green roofs, constructed wetlands, cisterns, bioretention, and other stormwater control management structures. Water budgets are plotted for several example systems to provide insight on structural and environmental design factors, and seasonal variation in hydrologic processes of stormwater management systems. Previously published water budgets and models are used to suggest appropriate operational standards for several green and grey stormwater control structures and compare between conventional and low-impact development approaches. We compare models, characterize and quantify water budgets and expected ranges for green and grey infrastructure systems, and demonstrate how the Water Budget Triangle tool may help users to develop a data-driven approach for understanding design and retrofit of green stormwater infrastructure.
AB - Using water budget data from published literature, we demonstrate how hydrologic processes govern the function of various stormwater infrastructure technologies. Hydrologic observations are displayed on a Water Budget Triangle, a ternary plot tool developed to visualize simplified water budgets, enabling side-by-side comparison of green and grey approaches to stormwater management. The tool indicates ranges of hydrologic function for green roofs, constructed wetlands, cisterns, bioretention, and other stormwater control management structures. Water budgets are plotted for several example systems to provide insight on structural and environmental design factors, and seasonal variation in hydrologic processes of stormwater management systems. Previously published water budgets and models are used to suggest appropriate operational standards for several green and grey stormwater control structures and compare between conventional and low-impact development approaches. We compare models, characterize and quantify water budgets and expected ranges for green and grey infrastructure systems, and demonstrate how the Water Budget Triangle tool may help users to develop a data-driven approach for understanding design and retrofit of green stormwater infrastructure.
KW - best management practices (BMPs)
KW - green infrastructure (GI)
KW - low impact development (LID)
KW - sustainable drainage systems (SuDS)
KW - urban stormwater management
KW - water budget
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U2 - 10.1002/hyp.11353
DO - 10.1002/hyp.11353
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85034248019
SN - 0885-6087
VL - 31
SP - 4492
EP - 4506
JO - Hydrological Processes
JF - Hydrological Processes
IS - 25
ER -