Costs of Best Management Practices and Associated Land for Urban Stormwater Control

Sample, David J.; Heaney, James P.; Wright, Leonard; Fan, Chi-Yuan; Lai, Fu-hsiung; Field, Richard

doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9496(2003)129:1(59)

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“…The authors found that despite conventional wisdom, LID practices such as bioretention, which typically require proactive rather than reactive maintenance, experience lower marginal costs than conventional practices. In addition to maintenance, an often overlooked but substantial component of costs is the opportunity costs of the space or land occupied by the bioretention practice [143,144]. Roy et al [145] pointed out that performance enhancements from bioretention are very difficult to measure unless implementation is targeted on a small watershed scale.…”

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Review and Research Needs of Bioretention Used for the Treatment of Urban Stormwater

Liu

Sample

Bell

et al. 2014

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Abstract:The continued development of urban areas in recent decades has caused multiple issues affecting the sustainability of urban drainage systems. The increase of impervious surface areas in urban regions alters watershed hydrology and water quality. Typical impacts to downstream hydrologic regimes include higher peak flows and runoff volumes, shorter lag times, and reduced infiltration and base flow. Urban runoff increases the transport of pollutants and nutrients and thus degrades water bodies downstream from urban areas. One of the most frequently used practices to mitigate these impacts is bioretention. Despite its widespread use, research on bioretention systems remains active, particularly in terms of mix design and nitrogen treatment. Recent research focusing on bioretention is reviewed herein. The use of mesocosms provides the ability to isolate particular treatment processes and replicate variability. Computational models have been adapted and applied to simulate bioretention, offering potential improvements to their operation, maintenance, and design. Maintenance practices are important for sustained operation and have also been reviewed. Predicting maintenance is essential to assessing lifecycle costs. Within these research areas, gaps are explored, and recommendations made for future work.

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Section: Costsmentioning

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Review and Research Needs of Bioretention Used for the Treatment of Urban Stormwater

Liu

Sample

Bell

et al. 2014

Water

219

105

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“…Scientists and policy makers have emphasized the importance of targeting improvement efforts to the sources of greatest loading [12][13][14]. Numerous studies have also demonstrated the cost-effectiveness of targeting by practice and land use type [15][16][17][18]. However, farmers make the final decisions to adopt conservation practices or best management practices (BMPs) (henceforth, BMPs will include conservation practices which only usually refer to land retirement or no-tillage [19]).…”

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Factors Influencing Farmers’ Adoption of Best Management Practices: A Review and Synthesis

2018

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Best management practices (BMPs) for reducing agricultural non-point source pollution are widely available. However, agriculture remains a major global contributor to degradation of waters because farmers often do not adopt BMPs. To improve water quality, it is necessary to understand the factors that influence BMP adoption by farmers. We review the findings of BMP adoption studies from both developed and developing countries, published after (or otherwise not included in) two major literature reviews from 2007 and 2008. We summarize the study locations, scales, and BMPs studied; the analytical methods used; the factors evaluated; and the directionality of each factor's influence on BMP adoption. We then present a conceptual framework for BMP adoption decisions that emphasizes the importance of scale, the tailoring or targeting of information and incentives, and the importance of expected farm profits. We suggest that future research directions should focus on study scale, on measuring and modeling of adoption as a continuous process, and on incorporation of social norms and uncertainty into decision-making. More research is needed on uses of social media and market recognition approaches (such as certificate schemes and consumer labeling) to influence BMP adoption.

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“…Recent enhancements to WinSLAMM also now enable the costs and the expected habitat conditions of the receiving waters to be compared, in addition to flow-duration information. Cost data were summarized from several studies, including those by APWA 1992, Brown and Schueler 1997, Frank 1989, Heaney, et al 2002, Muthukrishnan, et al 2006, Sample, et al 2003, SEWRPC 1991, Wiegand, et al 1986, and Wossink and Hunt 2003.…”

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Using Decision Analyses to Select an Urban Runoff Control Program

Pitt

Voorhees²

2007

JWMM

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Costs of Best Management Practices and Associated Land for Urban Stormwater Control

Cited by 76 publications

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Review and Research Needs of Bioretention Used for the Treatment of Urban Stormwater

Review and Research Needs of Bioretention Used for the Treatment of Urban Stormwater

Factors Influencing Farmers’ Adoption of Best Management Practices: A Review and Synthesis

Using Decision Analyses to Select an Urban Runoff Control Program

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