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STORMWATER BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES TEST FACILITY - SWALES
Citation:
BORST, M. STORMWATER BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES TEST FACILITY - SWALES. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/F-07/009, 2007.
Impact/Purpose:
to publish information
Description:
The NRMRL swale evaluation is part of a larger collection of long-term research projects that evaluates many Best Management Practices. EPA has ongoing research examining the performance of constructed wet lands, and detention and retention ponds. Other projects will evaluate rain gardens and porous pavement. The three swales with the collection tanks occupy nearly 1-acre of land. NRMRL operates the 20-acre Urban Watershed Research Facility that includes stormwater mesocosms, laboratories, greenhouses, fabrication space, pipeline testing facility and storage for equipment and supplies. This unique facility is part of a larger 210-acre EPA facility operated by Region 2 in Edison, NJ. This land area allows NRMRL to undertake research on a scale that cannot be executed at any other EPA facility.