Adapting urban best management practices for resilience to long-term environmental changes.

ABSTRACT: Stormwater best management practices (BMPs) help mitigate the adverse effects of urban development on stream hydrology and water quality, and are widely specified in development requirements and watershed management plans. However, design of stormwater BMPs largely relies on experience with historic climate, which may not be a reliable guide to the future. To inform BMP design that is robust to future conditions, it is important to examine how potential changes in precipitation, temperature, and potential evapotranspiration will affect the performance of BMPs. We use continuous simulation modeling to examine BMP performance under current and potential future climatic conditions and determine the changes needed in site configuration to address future impacts. We perform modeling for five de

SUBMITTER: Job SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8018564 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature