Compliance Rates for Storm Water Detention Facility Installation
Publication: Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Volume 11, Issue 1
Abstract
Best management practices (BMPs) are designs and practices used to mitigate the environmental impacts of nonpoint source pollution, a leading cause of receiving water quality degradation in the United States. Proper selection and design of a BMP should consider its performance throughout its anticipated life. The magnitude of one particular life cycle variable, representing the likelihood of installation of a required storm water detention facility, was analyzed based on data from 716 privately developed sites in a county in South Carolina. This yielded an overall 86% probability for storm water detention facility construction. This variable was found to be approximately 79 and 88% for areas of disturbances of less than and greater than , respectively. Such compliance rates are useful information in conducting BMP life cycle analyses as well as for improving nonpoint source pollution estimates for postconstruction watershed conditions.
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Acknowledgments
The writers would like to thank the Greenville County Soil and Water Conservation District and Woolpert LLP for allowing them to review the data on detention facilities in Greenville County, S.C.
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Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Volume 11 • Issue 1 • March 2005
Pages: 61 - 63
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© 2005 ASCE.
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Received: Dec 2, 2003
Accepted: Jun 9, 2004
Published online: Mar 1, 2005
Published in print: Mar 2005
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