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ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
卷 186, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106835
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Water quality; Bioretention; Permeable pavement; Eutrophication; Low impact development; Water sensitive urban design
Urban stormwater is a significant source of nutrients and sediment to aquatic ecosystems. Green infrastructure (GI) is an effective method to treat stormwater pollutants, using soil and plants as natural filters. Blueprint Columbus, a project in Ohio, USA, successfully utilized GI to eliminate sanitary sewer overflows and remove suspended solids from developed areas. The study found that GI was effective at reducing nutrient and sediment concentrations and loads at the watershed scale.
Urban stormwater represents a substantial source of nutrients and sediment to aquatic ecosystems. Green infrastructure (GI), including bioretention and permeable pavement, is an increasingly utilized method to treat stormwater pollutants. Using soil and plants as natural filters, these systems are effective at the site scale, but little evidence exists regarding their performance at the watershed-scale. Blueprint Columbus is an effort by the City of Columbus, Ohio, USA to retrofit GI to eliminate sanitary sewer overflows and remove 20% of total suspended solids (TSS) from existing developed areas. Changes in water quality resulting from the combined effects of many GI practices installed in 11.5 and 47.8 ha treatment watersheds were quantified using a paired -watershed approach. Based on water quality data collected by automated samplers over a 3.5-year period, sig-nificant reductions in particulate and dissolved nutrients as well as sediment were observed following the installation of GI in both treatment watersheds compared to the control. Total nitrogen (TN), phosphorus (TP), and TSS concentrations decreased by 13.7-24.1%, 20.9-47.4%, and 61.6-67.7%, respectively. Runoff attenua-tion by GI contributed to pollutant load reductions of 24.0-25.4% (TN), 27.8-32.6% (TP), and 59.5-78.3% (TSS). Orthophosphate concentrations and loads increased in the watershed with bioretention only but significantly decreased in the treatment watershed with bioretention and permeable pavement. Reductions in TSS concen-tration were similar (within a margin of 5%) to the percent of the watershed imperviousness treated by GI. Results demonstrate that GI was effective in reducing runoff event mean concentrations and loads at the watershed-scale.
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