Performance of stormwater detention tanks for urban drainage systems in northern Italy

Todeschini, Sara; Papiri, Sergio; Ciaponi, Carlo

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.02.003

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“…To attain this objective, three main alternatives might be considered. The most evident solution consists in enlarging the infrastructure of the sewer system (either by adding more channels, pipelines and storage tanks [6] or by expanding the capacity of the existing ones), in order to transport water and sewage away from cities in a faster way and avoiding flooding. However, this solution generally involves high costs and the implementation times may be also high, making this solution unfeasible in many cases.…”

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Modeling and real-time control of urban drainage systems: A review

Garcia¹,

Barreiro-Gómez

Escobar³

et al. 2015

Advances in Water Resources

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Urban drainage systems (UDS) may be considered large-scale systems given their large number of associated states and decision actions, making challenging their real-time control (RTC) design. Moreover, the complexity of the dynamics of the UDS makes necessary the development of strategies for the control design. This paper reviews and discusses several techniques and strategies commonly used for the control of UDS. Moreover, the models to describe, simulate, and control the transport of wastewater in UDS are also reviewed.

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confidence: 99%

Modeling and real-time control of urban drainage systems: A review

Garcia¹,

Barreiro-Gómez

Escobar³

et al. 2015

Advances in Water Resources

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“…The detention tanks reduce the peak discharge flow and reduce the mass loading of pollutants because some pollutants are removed by sedimentation. (26) In contrast, LID harvests rainwater to control the 1.5 in. of rainwater, and households use most of the rainfall for nonpotable water (irrigation and toilet flushing) uses.…”

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Use of Impact Fees To Incentivize Low-Impact Development and Promote Compact Growth

Noonan

Crittenden

et al. 2013

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Low-impact development (LID) is an innovative stormwater management strategy that restores the predevelopment hydrology to prevent increased stormwater runoff from land development. Integrating LID into residential subdivisions and increasing population density by building more compact living spaces (e.g., apartment homes) can result in a more sustainable city by reducing stormwater runoff, saving infrastructural cost, increasing the number of affordable homes, and supporting public transportation. We develop an agent-based model (ABM) that describes the interactions between several decision-makers (i.e., local government, a developer, and homebuyers) and fiscal drivers (e.g., property taxes, impact fees). The model simulates the development of nine square miles of greenfield land. A more sustainable development (MSD) scenario introduces an impact fee that developers must pay if they choose not to use LID to build houses or apartment homes. Model simulations show homeowners selecting apartment homes 60% or 35% of the time after 30 years of development in MSD or business as usual (BAU) scenarios, respectively. The increased adoption of apartment homes results from the lower cost of using LID and improved quality of life for apartment homes relative to singlefamily homes. The MSD scenario generates more tax revenue and water savings than does BAU. A timedependent global sensitivity analysis quantifies the importance of socioeconomic variables on the adoption rate of apartment homes. The top influential factors are the annual pay rates (or capital recovery factor) for single-family houses and apartment homes. The ABM can be used by city managers and policymakers for scenario exploration in accordance with local conditions to evaluate the effectiveness of impact fees and other policies in promoting LID and compact growth. (Model 1) 1

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“…However, simple and isolated improvements to drainage capacity are now proven to be unsustainable, costly, and even impractical because of great uncertainties in the broader context of land- scape and climate change, particularly in densely urbanized areas. SCMs are facilities capable of effectively storing and infiltrating storm water runoff, usually involving green infrastructure such as green roofs, permeable pavements, vegetative swales, rain gardens, and bio-retention systems (Todeschini et al, 2012). The implementation of SCMs is usually low-cost and environmentally friendly and the benefits for runoff reduction have been confirmed by many studies at different scales.…”

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Modelling the ability of source control measures to reduce inundation risk in a community-scale urban drainage system

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Abstract. Urban inundation is a serious challenge that increasingly confronts the residents of many cities, as well as policymakers, in the context of rapid urbanization and climate change worldwide. In recent years, source control measures (SCMs) such as green roofs, permeable pavements, rain gardens, and vegetative swales have been implemented to address flood inundation in urban settings, and proven to be cost-effective and sustainable. In order to investigate the ability of SCMs on reducing inundation in a community-scale urban drainage system, a dynamic rainfall-runoff model of a community-scale urban drainage system was developed based on SWMM. SCMs implementing scenarios were modelled under six design rainstorm events with return period ranging from 2 to 100 years, and inundation risks of the drainage system were evaluated before and after the proposed implementation of SCMs, with a risk-evaluation method based on SWMM and analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Results show that, SCMs implementation resulting in significantly reduction of hydrological indexes that related to inundation risks, range of reduction rates of average flow, peak flow, and total flooded volume of the drainage system were 28.1-72.1, 19.0-69.2, and 33.9-56.0 %, respectively, under six rainfall events with return periods ranging from 2 to 100 years. Corresponding, the inundation risks of the drainage system were significantly reduced after SCMs implementation, the risk values falling below 0.2 when the rainfall return period was less than 10 years. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of SCMs on mitigating inundation, and quantified the potential of SCMs on reducing inundation risks in the urban drainage system, which provided scientific references for implementing SCMs for inundation control of the study area.

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Performance of stormwater detention tanks for urban drainage systems in northern Italy

Cited by 73 publications

References 50 publications

Modeling and real-time control of urban drainage systems: A review

Modeling and real-time control of urban drainage systems: A review

Use of Impact Fees To Incentivize Low-Impact Development and Promote Compact Growth

Modelling the ability of source control measures to reduce inundation risk in a community-scale urban drainage system

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