Urban Particle Capture in Bioretention Media. I: Laboratory and Field Studies
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Abstract
Bioretention is a novel stormwater best-management practice that uses a mixture of soil/sand/mulch as adsorptive filtration media that can capture both urban particulates and dissolved pollutants while promoting infiltration. This study conducted a series of laboratory column experiments and field observations, which showed that: (1) bioretention media stratification occurs with runoff percolation due to particulate deposition; (2) bioretention filter media are clogging limited, instead of breakthrough limited; and (3) both depth filtration and cake filtration significantly contribute to urban particle capture. Because of the fine size of bioretention media, incoming suspended solids cannot significantly penetrate below of the media in the column tests and approximately in the monitored field facility. Bioretention filters under intermittent flow conditions exhibited higher solids loading capacity (in ) before clogging than under continuous flow conditions. The clay components in incoming total suspended solids assume critical responsibility for bioretention media clogging. The media resistance due to solids deposition was estimated through Darcy’s law. The hydraulic conductivity of two media types decreased from and to less than due to particle capture. Experimental results suggest that a media depth is sufficient for bioretention design and maintenance procedures (media replacement) for runoff particle capture.
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Acknowledgments
The writers would like to express their gratitude to the District of Columbia Department of Health (DOH), Environmental Health Administration, for financial support and to the Prince George’s County’s Public Works for providing bioretention media (Soil I). We also would like to thank Ameya Pradhan, Chen Chiu, Jim Stagge, and Walter Caldwell for their help with the field sample collections, as well as Maria Chang for her help in the laboratory experiments.
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Volume 134 • Issue 6 • June 2008
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