Impact of maintenance and (im)properly sizing bioretention on hydrologic and water quality performance

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010: Challenges of Change - Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3048-3059

  Brown, Robert A ^a   Hunt, William F ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological processes; Hydrology; Maintenance; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; BIORETENTION; BIORETENTION CELL; CONSTRUCTION ERRORS; MONITORING PERIODS; NITROGEN SPECIES; PARKING LOTS; POLLUTANT LOADS; ROUTINE MAINTENANCE; STORAGE VOLUMES; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE STORAGE; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; WATER QUALITY PERFORMANCE;

CELLS; HYDROLOGY; MAINTAINABILITY; PARKING; RUNOFF; WATER LEVELS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 77954968532     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41114(371)312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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