Low-Impact Development Scenarios in Terms of Construction Costs and Runoff Reduction
Publication: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 29, Issue 1
Abstract
Low-impact development practices (LIDs) have been used to reduce the impacts of flash floods in Brazil. However, there is a lack of investigations on their construction costs concerning the effects on the mitigation of flash floods. This paper addresses the construction costs and the runoff reduction by using seven scenarios of LIDs for a basin in the Midwest Brazil region. The LIDs considered were permeable pavement (PP), rainwater harvesting (RWH), and infiltration trenches (IT). The first three LID scenarios considered PP, RWH, and IT techniques, respectively, and the other four used different combinations of the three LIDs. Scenario 3 showed a decrease of 15% in the runoff, achieved at a lower cost using only IT. This result corresponds to a 2.6% runoff reduction per $1 million spent. These analyses may help in the identification of the balance between benefit and cost by local stakeholders for the use of LIDs.
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Data Availability Statement
Some or all data, models, or codes that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgments
This study was supported by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development—CNPq/Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation—MCTI (numbers 406647/2022-4, 309752/2020-5, and 422947/2018-0), Fundação de Apoio ao Ensino, Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul–Fundect (Grant Number 71/032.795/2022), and partially financed by the Brazilian Federal Foundation for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) (under Grant Number 88887.339511/2019-00, Finance Code 001, and CAPES PrInt).
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Received: Apr 11, 2023
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