Monitoring the performance of urban green infrastructure using a tensiometer approach.

ABSTRACT: Little is known about how stormwater exfiltrates from green infrastructure and few efforts have been undertaken to address this question. This study used tensiometers to monitor water exfiltration from an aggregate-filled storage gallery installed under permeable pavement. An 80-space parking lot was built at Seitz elementary school in Fort Riley, KS under an agreement between EPA and US Army during the summer of 2015. A network of twelve tensiometers and twelve monitoring wells was installed under and south of the storage gallery. Tensiometers were installed a various depths and distances to monitor soil moisture tension. The installation was used to monitor subsurface water flow patterns from the storage gallery under the permeable pavement site. The results of the study showed that soil

SUBMITTER: Razzaghmanesh M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7370833 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature