Assessment of stormwater discharge contamination and toxicity for a cold-climate urban landscape.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stormwater is water resulting from precipitation events and snowmelt running off the urban landscape, collecting in storm sewers, and typically being released into receiving water bodies through outfalls with minimal to no treatment. Despite a growing body of evidence observing its deleterious pollution impacts, stormwater management and treatment in cold climates remains limited, partly due to a lack of quality and loading data and modeling parameters. This study examines the quality of stormwater discharging during the summer season in a cold-climate, semi-arid Canadian city (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan).

Results

Seven stormwater outfalls with mixed-land-use urban catchments > 100 km² were sampled for four summer (June-August 2019) storm events and analyz

SUBMITTER: Popick H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9106602 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature