Grassed swales for stormwater pollution control during rain and snowmelt

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 123-132

  Bäckström, Magnus ^a  

^a Technical Department   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cold climate; Pollution control; Urban storm drainage; Vegetative controls

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; HEAVY METALS; HYDRAULICS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POLLUTION CONTROL; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTATION; SNOW; STORMS;

SNOWMELT; STORMWATER TREATMENT;

WATER POLLUTION;

HEAVY METAL; RAIN; SNOW; STORM WATER;

PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION CONTROL; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; STORMWATER; URBAN DRAINAGE; VEGETATION COVER;

CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; SWEDEN; URBAN POPULATION; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER SUPPLY; WINTER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LULEA; NORRBOTTEN; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 0347985486     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2003.0508     Document Type: Conference Paper

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