Quantifying the performance of dual-use rainwater harvesting systems.

ABSTRACT: Rainwater harvesting systems in urban settings are increasingly relied upon to mitigate pluvial flooding on top of providing an additional water supply. Alternative designs have been proposed to support their dual use. Stormwater management performance is typically evaluated through long-term averages. However, long-term assessment is not aligned with the goal of attenuating the impacts of short duration high-intensity rainfall events. This paper contributes a framework for evaluating the dual-use performance of design alternatives. The framework incorporates a set of stormwater management metrics that provides a robust characterisation of performance during significant rainfall events. To the usual long-term volumetric retention metric, we add: 1) metrics that represent the total volume a

SUBMITTER: Quinn R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7806874 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature