Pollutant removal and Hydraulic reduction performance of field grassed swales during runoff simulation experiments

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1887-1904

  Lucke, Terry ^a   Mohamed, Mohamed Ansaf Kachchu ^a   Tindale, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Particle size distribution (PSD); Stormwater pollution; Stormwater treatment train; Swales; Total suspended solids (TSS)

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; STORMS;

HYDRAULIC REDUCTION; POLLUTION REDUCTION; STORM WATER RUNOFF; STORMWATER POLLUTION; STORMWATER TREATMENT; SWALES; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; URBAN STORMWATER RUNOFF;

STORM SEWERS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLOW CONTROL; GRASSLAND; POLLUTION CONTROL; RUNOFF; SIMULATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84904045310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6071887     Document Type: Article

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