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An empirical modeling approach to predicting pollutant loads and developing cost-effective stormwater treatment strategies for a large urban watershed

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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 760, Issue -, Pages -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143388

Keywords

Stormwater treatment practices (STPs); Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL); Geographic information system (GIS); Stormwater; Regularization; Optimization

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  1. California Department of Transportation (Caltrnas), Division of Environmental Analysis
  2. University of California
  3. [43A0073]

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An empirical model was used to evaluate stormwater treatment strategies in the upper Ballona Creek Watershed in Los Angeles, showing that focusing on transportation landuse for stormwater treatment can achieve the water quality goal of total zinc at approximately 75% less cost.
Stormwater treatment strategieswere evaluated for the upper Ballona CreekWatershed in Los Angeles, CA using an empirical model of stormwater runoff quantity and quality with zeroth-order regularization and a limited memory Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno Bound constrained optimization routine. The model used landuse based estimation on the runoff volume, event mean concentration (EMC) and pollutant load employing ten different landuses, including highways and local roads. The model was validated by showing that its predictions were in reasonable agreement (r(2) similar to 0.6 to 0.8) with total zinc (Zn), Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN), and Total Suspended Solids (TSS) loadings measured at the monitoring site at the bottom of the watershed. The developed model was used to demonstrate and quantify the benefits of the stormwater treatment practices (STPs) prioritized at specific landuses with high pollutant mass emission rates. For this demonstration, total Zn was selected as it is one of the most concerning pollutants in an extremely urbanized area such as the Ballona Creek Watershed. Transportation landuse including local roads and highways was found to be the best candidate for the STP applications due to their high percent load contribution per percent area. By focusing STPs for transportation landuse, thewater quality goal of total Zn in the study watershed was expected be achieved at approximately 75% less cost. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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