­rainwater Reservoirs in the Urban Landscape – Case Study

Abstract

Anthropopressure is considered as one of the most important causes of disorder of natural water relations in the environment and impoverishment of the landscape. This is particularly evident in urban areas, where the degree of built-up areas and participation of impervious surfaces are still increasing. The result of such processes are extreme phenomena-more frequent droughts and floods. One way to keep a good state of water resources in urban catchments is creating retention and infiltration of rainwater. The paper presents examples of sustainable rainwater management that determine change of the face of the city and increase its friendliness towards the environment.

Technical and natural conditions and operating efficiency of a municipal stormwater treatment plant

“…On the other hand, stormwater reservoirs and wetlands can be a factor increasing biodiversity in a poor, urbanised landscape (Le Viol et al 2009 ; Kazemi et al 2011 ; Herrmann 2012 ; Zubala and Patro 2015 ). Spatial development schemes used for decades in the large urbanised areas of Central and Eastern Europe were mostly not conducive to the development or maintenance of biological life at an adequate level.…”

“…More and more often the unevenness of flow and hydraulic overload within sewage systems increases. A reduction in permeable surfaces in addition decreases the amount of water soaking into soil, and thus reduces the possibility of natural self-purification and renewal of underground water resources (Geiger and Dreiseitl 2001 ; Congying 2012 ; Zubala and Patro 2015 ). The stream of stormwater and melt-water can contain considerable amounts of pollutants, and so they pose a significant risk to natural receiving bodies (rivers, reservoirs) (Eriksson et al 2007 ; Jamwal et al 2008 ; Barałkiewicz et al 2014 ).…”

“…roads, car parks, fuel stations, small housing estates. Such systems include separators, wells, settling tanks and infiltration basins (Geiger and Dreiseitl 2001 ; Langeveld et al 2012 ; Fuchs et al 2013 ; Tran and Kang 2013 ; Zubala and Patro 2015 ). The operating principle of such devices is very simple.…”

Time and Spatial Variability in Concentrations of Selected Pollutants in the New Bypass Rainwater Harvesting System

“…Collection, pretreatment and infiltration of rainwater at the place of its formation are increasingly used. In simple solutions, like permeable surfaces, infiltration basins, settlers and retention ponds, natural selfpurification processes are used (Hossain et al, 2005;Ivanovsky et al, 2018;Zubala & Patro, 2015). Due to the slowdown of flow, ideal conditions for sedimentation, flotation, dilution and sorption are created.…”

Variability of zinc, copper and lead contents in sludge of the municipal stormwater treatment plant

“…roads, car parks and petrol stations. These include separators, settlers, infiltration basins and retention-infiltration reservoirs (Langeveld et al 2012 ; Moore and Hunt 2012 ; Tran and Kang 2013 ; Zubala and Patro 2015 ). The multiple-element systems of several hectares, receiving rainwater sewage from large areas and performing several functions at the same time, are—unfortunately—rarely used.…”