Author: Clark BinkleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Interceptor Sewers and Urban Sprawl
Author: Clark BinkleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: Innovative Urban Wet-Weather Flow Management Systems
Author: Richard FieldPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781566769143
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
The 20th century's automobile-inspired land use changes brought about tremendous transformations in how stormwater moves across the modern urban land-scape. Streets and parking areas in the average urban family's neighborhood now exceed the amount of land devoted to living space. Add parking, office and commercial space, and it's easy to understand how modern cities have experienced a three-fold increase in impervious areas. Traditional wet weather collection systems removed stormwater from urban areas as quickly as possible, often transferring problems downstream. Innovative Urban WetWeather Flow Management Systems does two things: It considers the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of urban runoff; then describes innovative methods for improving wet weather flow (WWF) management systems. The result of extensive research, Innovative Urban Wet-Weather Flow Manage-ment Systems looks most at how to handle runoff in developments of the 21st century: the confl icting objectives of providing drainage while decreasing stormwater pollutant discharges; the impact of urban WWF on surface and groundwater, such as smaller urban stream channels scoured by high peak flows; sediment transport and the toxic effects of WWF on aquatic organisms; the effectiveness of WWF controls-including design guidelines and source and downstream controls-are an important issue. Innovative Urban Wet-Weather Flow Management Systems looks at how source controls like biofi ltration, created through simple grading, may work in newly developing areas, while critical source areas like an auto service facilities, may need more extensive treatment strategies. Focusing WWF treatment on intensively used areas, such as the 20 percent of streets that handle the bulk of the traffic, and under utilized parking areas is also considered. Developing a more integrated water supply system-collecting, treating, and disposing of wastewater, and handling urban WWF-requires innovative methods, such as a neighborhood-scale system that would recycle treated wastewater and storm water for lawn watering and toilet flushing, or use treated roof runoff for potable purposes.
Managing Community Growth
Author: Eric KellyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313072922
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Despite roughly thirty years of experience with growth management programs, which are basically land-use planning tools, most U.S. communities do not plan for how best to limit or manage rapid growth; in fact, most communities do not plan at all. In the absence of planning, land-use boards, regulators, and other governing bodies simply react to initiatives from the private sector. The result is predictably haphazard and does not allow communities to achieve such goals as protecting quality of life, attracting certain types of businesses while discouraging others, conserving wildlife or preserving open spaces, and so forth. In contrast, planning by managing growth can help a town or city achieve any number of goals. But it is a complex task. This book brings the benefit of state and local experiences with growth management to researchers, students, and particularly practitioners who seek guidance in these matters. Kelly provides a much-needed context from which any community can answer the following questions: Does growth management work? Is it appropriate for the community and the particular problems that it is trying to address? Is one type of growth management program more appropriate than another for our community? Will the program in question have undesirable (or desirable) side effects?What are the likely effects of adopting no growth management program at all? This work is invaluable for the citizen volunteers who sit on land-use boards, including planning and zoning commissions, conservation commissions, and inland wetlands agencies. In addition, it can aid mayors, city managers, and city councils in interviewing and selecting candidates for town planner.
Environmental Quality
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Selected Urban Storm Water Runoff Abstracts
Author: Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.). Science Information ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Runoff
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: Floodplain Development Pressures and Federal Programs
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Federal ActivitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to community development
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Certain Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1976, Hearings Before ... 94-1
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Certain Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1976
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1824
Book Description