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Technology Assessment On Stressor Impacts to Green Infrastructure BMP Performance, Monitoring, and Integration (Cincinnati, OH)
Citation:
GROSSE, D. W., W. D. SHUSTER, J. H. MCCREADY, J. MCKERNAN, D. J. MURRAY, J. P. SCHUBAUER-BERIGAN, B. BUTLER, V. E. HANSEN, AND B. DYSON. Technology Assessment On Stressor Impacts to Green Infrastructure BMP Performance, Monitoring, and Integration (Cincinnati, OH). Presented at 8th Annual Workshop on Small Drinking Water Systems: Compliance Strategies, Cincinnati, OH, August 30 - September 01, 2011.
Impact/Purpose:
To document, benchmark and evaluate state-of-the-science research and implementation on BMP performance, monitoring and integration for green infrastructure applications, to manage wet weather flow, storm-water runoff stressor relief and remedial sustainable water quality improvements to the environment.
Description:
This poster presentation will document, benchmark and evaluate state-of-the-science research and implementation on BMP performance, monitoring and integration for green infrastructure applications, to manage wet weather flow, storm-water runoff stressor relief and remedial sustainable water quality improvements to the environment. This information will be drawn from work being done within NRMRL, ORD, USEPA. Information will be presented illustrating current research efforts addressing adverse stressor impacts and remediation of contaminated substrates. BMP performance and monitoring has been in existence for quite some time as it relates to stormwater management, which historically includes what may be considered to be grey infrastructure such as: detention basins, retention ponds, hydrodynamic devices, media filters, percolation trenches and dry wells, to name a few. More recently, a variety of newer innovative green infrastructure (GI) BMPs have come into prominence, such as: rain gardens and barrels, green roofs, swales, wetlands and walls which require further evaluation and performance assessment. This initiative was spurred by increasing attention given to reducing the carbon footprint, and/or eliminating stressors at various temporal/spatial scales, reducing the carbon footprint, conserving energy, promoting sustainability and protecting the habitat (aesthetics). This poster presentation will offer current practices and state-of-the-science implementation of remedial approaches.