Depuration of highway runoff water into grass-covered embankments

Environmental Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 709-720

  Boivin, P ^a   Saade M ^b   Pfeiffer, H R ^c   Hammecker, C ^d   Degoumois, Y ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e Section Routes Nationales   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Depuration; Heavy metal; Infiltration; Road runoff water; Soil

Indexed keywords

EMBANKMENTS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEAVY METALS; HIGHWAY PLANNING; ROADS AND STREETS; RUNOFF; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

CRACKED CONCRETES; DEPURATION; IN- SITU MONITORING; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; ROAD RUNOFF; SIMULATION AND MONITORING; SMALL PARTICLES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS;

INFILTRATION;

HEAVY METAL; RUNOFF;

EMBANKMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEAVY METALS; RUNOFF; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

DEPURATION; EMBANKMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASS; HEAVY METAL; INFILTRATION; MASS BALANCE; POLLUTION CONTROL; RUNOFF; SOIL PROPERTY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER POLLUTION;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; MONITORING; POLLUTANT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SIMULATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; TRAFFIC; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; VALAIS;

EID: 45849126815     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330801986972     Document Type: Article

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