Near-natural stormwater management and its effects on the water budget and groundwater surface in urban areas taking account of the hydrogeological conditions

Göbel, Patricia; Stubbe, Holger; WEINERT, M; Zimmermann, Julia; Fach, S.; Dierkes, C.; Kories, Holger; Messer, Johannes; Mertsch, Viktor; Geiger, Wolfgang; Coldewey, Wilhelm G.

doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.08.013

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“…These studies have revealed that (1) the effect of stormwater infiltration on recharge depends strongly on pre-development recharge (Ku et al, 1992;Keßler et al, 2012;Stephens et al, 2012;Thomas and Vogel, 2012) and (2) groundwater mounding beneath stormwater facilities is more prevalent with low hydraulic conductivity, centralized spatial arrangement, or positioning at topographic lows (Endreny and Collins, 2009;Carleton, 2010;Machusick et al, 2011). Groundwater mounding may cause unintended damage to infrastructure, such as flooding of underground structures, groundwater leakage into wastewater pipes, vegetation damage, and pollutant mobilization (Göbel et al, 2004).…”

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“…Infiltration through stormwater facilities. Infiltrationfocused stormwater facilities may lead to more recharge from point sources instead of diffuse sources (Appleyard, 1995), which has been suggested to increase annual recharge (Ku et al, 1992;Göbel et al, 2004;Stephens et al, 2012;Barron et al, 2013;Hamel and Fletcher, 2014), although not in all cases (Keßler et al, 2012). Ideally with LID, the goal is for the urbanized water cycle to be equivalent to the pre-development cycle in overall fluxes (i.e.…”

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Urban base flow with low impact development

Bhaskar

Hogan

Archfield

2016

Hydrological Processes

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Abstract:A novel form of urbanization, low impact development (LID), aims to engineer systems that replicate natural hydrologic functioning, in part by infiltrating stormwater close to the impervious surfaces that generate it. We sought to statistically evaluate changes in a base flow regime because of urbanization with LID, specifically changes in base flow magnitude, seasonality, and rate of change. We used a case study watershed in Clarksburg, Maryland, in which streamflow was monitored during whole-watershed urbanization from forest and agricultural to suburban residential development using LID. The 1.11-km 2 watershed contains 73 infiltration-focused stormwater facilities, including bioretention facilities, dry wells, and dry swales. We examined annual and monthly flow during and after urbanization (2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014) and compared alterations to nearby forested and urban control watersheds. We show that total streamflow and base flow increased in the LID watershed during urbanization as compared with control watersheds. The LID watershed had more gradual storm recessions after urbanization and attenuated seasonality in base flow. These flow regime changes may be because of a reduction in evapotranspiration because of the overall decrease in vegetative cover with urbanization and the increase in point sources of recharge. Precipitation that may once have infiltrated soil, been stored in soil moisture to be eventually transpired in a forested landscape, may now be recharged and become base flow. The transfer of evapotranspiration to base flow is an unintended consequence to the water balance of LID.

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Urban base flow with low impact development

Bhaskar

Hogan

Archfield

2016

Hydrological Processes

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“…This result is consistent with the findings of Oke (1991, 2002), confirmed by Berthier et al (2006) and Dupond et al (2006), who considered evapotranspiration to be a major component of the water budget within urban areas. Facilitating the infiltration of rainwater results in a higher groundwater level (Göbel et al, 2004). Draining the saturated zone through the sewer system may be considered as a base flow that produces significant runoff volumes (Belhadj et al, 1995).…”

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A distributed hydrological model for urbanized areas – Model development and application to case studies

Rodríguez

Andrieu

Morena

2008

Journal of Hydrology

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“…Placement and configuration of imperviousness within a catchment can have a significant influence on downstream response (Mejía and Moglen, 2010). Locations and configuration of conventional conveyance (Meierdiercks et al, 2010a;Ogden et al, 2011;Tague and Pohl-Costello, 2008), infiltration-based (Easton et al, 2007;Gobel et al, 2004;Miles and Band, 2015) and detention-based stormwater management infrastructures also 4800 T. C. LIM influence incremental connectivity in hydrologic response of a catchment under varying event depths.…”

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Predictors of urban variable source area: a cross‐sectional analysis of urbanized catchments in the United States

Lim

2016

Hydrological Processes

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Many studies have empirically confirmed the relationship between urbanization and changes to the hydrologic cycle and degraded aquatic habitats. While much of the literature focuses on extent and configuration of impervious area as a causal determinant of degradation, in this article, I do not attribute causes of decreased watershed storage on impervious area a priori. Rather, adapting the concept of variable source area (VSA) and its relationship to incremental storage to the particular conditions of urbanized catchments, I develop a statistically robust linear regression‐based methodology to detect evidence of VSA‐dominant response. Using the physical and meteorological characteristics of the catchments as explanatory variables, I then use logistic regression to statistically analyze significant predictors of the VSA classification. I find that the strongest predictor of VSA‐type response is the percent of undeveloped area in the catchment. Characteristics of developed areas, including total impervious area, percent‐developed open space and the type of drainage infrastructure, do not add to the explanatory power of undeveloped land in predicting VSA‐type response. Within only developed areas, I find that total impervious area and percent‐developed open space both decrease the odds of a catchment exhibiting evidence of VSA‐type response and the effect of developed open space is more similar to that of total impervious area than undeveloped land in predicting VSA response. Different types of stormwater management infrastructure, including combined sewer systems and infiltration, retention and detention infrastructure are not found to have strong statistically significant effects on probability of VSA‐type response. VSA‐type response is also found to be stronger during the growing season than the dormant season. These findings are consistent across a national cross‐section of urbanized watersheds, a higher resolution dataset of Baltimore Metropolitan Area watersheds and a subsample of watersheds confirmed not to be served by (combined sewer systems). Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Near-natural stormwater management and its effects on the water budget and groundwater surface in urban areas taking account of the hydrogeological conditions

Cited by 96 publications

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Urban base flow with low impact development

Urban base flow with low impact development

A distributed hydrological model for urbanized areas – Model development and application to case studies

Predictors of urban variable source area: a cross‐sectional analysis of urbanized catchments in the United States

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