Effectiveness and downstream impacts of stormwater detention ponds required for land development

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3071-3081

  Su, Dehui ^a   Fang, Xing ^b   Fang, Zheng ^c  

^a Othon Inc   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Detention basins; Land use; Runoff; Stormwater management

Indexed keywords

DESIGN POLICY; DETENTION BASIN; DETENTION BASINS; DETENTION POND; DOWNSTREAM IMPACTS; EXISTING CONDITIONS; LAND DEVELOPMENT; LOCAL MANAGEMENT; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; PEAK DISCHARGE; PEAK FLOWS; RUNOFF CHARACTERISTICS; STORM WATER DETENTION; STORMWATER MANAGEMENTS; URBAN AREAS; WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS; WATERSHED SCALE;

DESIGN; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; LAKES; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL; STORM SEWERS; WATERSHEDS;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 77954975040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41114(371)314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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