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Green Infrastructure Implementation in Urban Parks for Stormwater Management
Journal of sustainable water in the built environment, v 5(3), p5019003
01 Aug 2019
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Abstract
AbstractA newly constructed rain garden in Shoelace Park in Bronx, New York, USA, was monitored between October 2014 and July 2015 as a pilot study aimed at testing the effectiveness of using urban park space to manage adjacent street runoff. Street inlet capture efficiency and rain garden retention were assessed through inflow and outflow monitoring and quantification. During the monitoring campaign consisting of 26 storms, the rain garden retained an average of 78% of all inflows, with full retention for storms under 10 mm (65% of monitored storms). New York City (NYC) is 72% impervious and 19.5% parkland in surface area. If only 4% of NYC parkland space were retrofitted with green infrastructure performing similarly to the Shoelace Park rain garden, the municipal goal of managing runoff from 10% of combined sewer-served impervious surfaces could be achieved, at least at the municipal scale. Additional spatial analyses are needed to determine whether potential parks are positioned ideally for stormwater capture given the variable conveyance capacities of the city’s many combined sewersheds, and the desired pollutant load reductions for each of its receiving water bodies. As suitable right-of-way GI sites become rarer, parklands represent a new exciting opportunity for expanding the extent of distributed stormwater management in cities.
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- Title
- Green Infrastructure Implementation in Urban Parks for Stormwater Management
- Creators
- Andrew Feldman - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, , 15 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA 02139. ORCID: . EmailRomano Foti - Drexel Univ. Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, , 3141 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104. EmailFranco Montalto - Drexel Univ. Professor, Dept. of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, , 3141 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 (corresponding author). Email
- Publication Details
- Journal of sustainable water in the built environment, v 5(3), p5019003
- Publisher
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering; Center for Public Policy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000471701700005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85065714505
- Other Identifier
- 991014878074904721
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