Selecting a green roof medium for water quality benefits

Restoring Our Natural Habitat - Proceedings of the 2007 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Long, Brett ^a   Clark, Shirley E ^a   Baker, Katherine H ^a   Berghage, Robert ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; EFFECTIVE MEDIA; FIELD TESTING; GRANULATED ACTIVATED CARBONS; GREEN ROOF; IN-PHASE; OPTIMIZED MEDIA; PHASE I; POLLUTANT LOADINGS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RESEARCH OBJECTIVES; ROOF RUNOFF; ROOFING MATERIALS; RUNOFF QUALITY; STORMWATER FILTER; STORMWATERS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN RUNOFF; WATER RETENTION;

ACID RAIN; ACTIVATED CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; FILTRATION; ORGANIC MINERALS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PHOSPHORUS; ROOFS; RUNOFF; SEWAGE; SHALE; SILICATE MINERALS; STORM SEWERS; SYNTHETIC METALS; WATER QUALITY;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 80051657856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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