The stormwater retention performance of rainwater tanks at the landparcel scale'

WSUD 2012 - 7th International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design: Building the Water Sensitive Community, Final Program and Abstract Book

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Burns, M J ^a   Fletcher, T D ^b   Duncan, H P ^c   Hatt, B E ^a   Ladson, A R ^a   Walsh, C J ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MELBOURNE WATER CORPORATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Passive irrigation; Rainwater tanks; Streams; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; COMPUTER MODELS; DESIGN MODIFICATIONS; EMPIRICAL DATA; FLOW REGIMES; MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES; RAIN WATER HARVESTING; RAINFALL EVENT; RAINWATER TANKS; RECEIVING WATERS; RETENTION CAPACITY; RETENTION SYSTEMS; STORMWATER RETENTION; STREAMS; TEMPERATE CLIMATE; UPSCALING; URBAN WATER SYSTEMS; URBANIZATION; WATER USE;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; IRRIGATION; RAIN; RESTORATION; WATER SUPPLY;

TANKS (CONTAINERS);

EID: 84862022015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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