World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2020
The Influence of Slope Profile on Rain Gardens’ Hydrological Performance
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2020: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater and Water Desalination and Reuse
ABSTRACT
From the last few decades, the world is witnessing the harmful effects of urbanization. The anthropogenic activities lead to dramatic changes in hydroclimatic conditions, as apparent from several previous studies. Urbanization leads to a rapid increase in impervious land cover and deterioration in the quality of the ecosystem. The impervious surface of concrete and asphalt seal the soil layers and causes excessive surface runoff which leads to the problem of urban waterlogging. The waterlogging problems not only interfere with the day to day life of people but also carry several health hazards. Green infrastructure has emerged as a possible solution and uses the nature-based solutions to target, treat, and store stormwater at its source. Rain gardens or bio-retention systems use natural processes of infiltration and evapotranspiration to sustainably control the surface runoff. To elucidate the capacity of such systems, laboratory experiments on three rain gardens with different slope profiles are conducted, to clarify the characteristics of their storage/infiltration function. The infiltration rates of three rain gardens are compared and the results indicate that, in shallow excavated flat rain garden, the given volume of water infiltrates out most expeditiously. Therefore, it is recommended that shallow excavated flat profile is most suitable for rain garden’s optimal hydrologic performance.
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World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2020: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater and Water Desalination and Reuse
Pages: 145 - 153
Editors: Sajjad Ahmad, Ph.D., and Regan Murray, Ph.D.
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8298-8
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