Chapter 1
Fundamentals of Small-Scale Hydrology for Modeling Low Impact Development Stormwater Controls
Publication: Computational Methods in Low Impact Development Stormwater Control Measures
Abstract
The goal of low impact development (LID) is to restore the so-called natural hydrology or an equivalent condition and reduce pollutant loads from new and existing developed areas as much as possible. Low impact development practices are broadly categorized as Conservation Design, GSI controls, and Structural Practice stormwater controls. Low impact development approaches integrate stormwater control measures (SCMs) to manage runoff in a manner that approximates the temporal and spatial distribution of a particular site's reference conditions. This chapter discusses the fundamentals of small-scale hydrologic and hydraulic processes at work in LID SCMs. It examines how complex processes are recognized in terms of interactions between the basic mechanisms in various SCMs. Computational approaches are needed to characterize the processes of infiltration, interception/evapotranspiration (ET), surface conveyance and detention to evaluate the performance of LID SCMs. This chapter briefly describes each of these processes in detail, as well as the computational approaches used to parameterize them in LID studies.
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