Linking Stormwater BMP Systems Water Quality and Quantity Performance to Whole Life Cycle Cost to Improve BMP Selection and Design
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2012: Crossing Boundaries
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As BMP systems become increasingly known as effective mechanisms for controlling stormwater runoff produced within urban environments, the need also increases for an efficient means to compare performance results from various types of BMP controls that also includes whole life cycle cost data. Facilitating the development of these numbers for comparison is essential to selecting the most appropriate BMP system for a particular site. The BMP Systems Effectiveness and Life Cycle Cost Evaluation (SELECT) Model, a Microsoft Excel based tool, provides a platform that allows multiple stormwater BMP system performances to be quantified and subsequently generates whole life cycle costs specific to each system. A case study for the Saylor Grove Wetland BMP site in the Wissahickon watershed of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has been completed. How the SELECT model is used to represent the wetland area and the resulting water quality, quantity, and cost calculations are discussed herein.
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© 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Jul 11, 2012
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Best Management Practices (BMPs)
- Business management
- Case studies
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Engineering fundamentals
- Environmental engineering
- Life cycles
- Management methods
- Methodology (by type)
- Practice and Profession
- Procurement
- Project management
- Quality control
- Research methods (by type)
- Stormwater management
- Water and water resources
- Water conservation
- Water management
- Water policy
- Water quality
- Water treatment
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