Features
Includes Wet-Weather-Flow Characteristics and a national urban stormwater pollution database Provides a full description of the Source Loading And Management Model (SLAMM)Covers urban stormwater-pollution-abatement technologies and sediment managementDiscusses low-impact development and stream protection and restoration
Summary
According to the National Resources Defense
Council, stormwater runoff rivals or exceeds discharges from factories
and sewage plants as a source of pollution throughout the United States.
The Environmental Protection Agency identifies urban stormwaters as the
second largest source of water quality damage in estuaries and a
significant contributor to the damage to lakes, rivers, and bays.
The
full impacts of marginal pollution, particularly that caused by
uncontrolled overflows, must be recognized now and planning needs to be
initiated to improve sewerage sytem efficiencies in order to bring
wastewater flows under control. Time is of the essence for municipal
programs because corrective action is a time consuming process. Current
research and development is elucidating the most efficient and least
costly methods needed to restore and maintain water resources.
Based
on seminars presented by international experts for the U.S. EPA,
Wet-Weather Flow in the Urban Watershed: Technology and Management
covers a broad spectrum of urban wet-weather flow management and
pollution abatement topics. The topics covered will assist municipal
engineers, consultants, and academic researchers with design, cost, and
water quality issues.
About the Editors:
Richard Field
has over 39 years of experience working in the environmental engineering
field and is a registered professional engineer in the states of New
York and New Jersey. Mr. Field has been in charge of the EPA's National
Storm and Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Technology Research and
Development program located at the National Risk Management Research
Laboratory's Edison, New Jersey location since 1970. He has over 300
peer-reviewed publications to his credit. Mr. Field has received
numerous outstanding achievement awards and citations for on-the-job
performance and technological contribution including two EPA Bronze
Medals, the ASCE State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award, two New
York Water Pollution Control Association Awards for excellence in
technicological advancement, and three U.S. EPA Scientific and Technical
Achievement Awards.
Daniel Sullivan has over 32 years experience
working in the field of environmental engineering and is a registered
professional engineer in the sates of New York and New Jersey. He has
served as Chief of the Urban Watershed Management Branch which conducts
the U.S. EPA national wet-weather flow (WWF) and watershed management
research program. Mr. Sullivan began his EPA career in 1972 and has
authored, co-authored, presented and/or published a combination of more
than 100 peer-reviewed publications on the topics of hazardous waste
control and WWF. He has received two EPA Bronze Medals for his work in
the EPA's WWF research program and environmental technology verification
program.
Table of Contents
Management of Wet-Weather Flow in the Urban Watershed, Richard Field and Daniel Sullivan
The Physical and Chemical Nature of Urban Stormwater Runoff Pollutants, John Sanasalone
National Stormwater Runoff Pollution Database, James Smullen and Kelly Cave
SLAMM, the Source Loading and Management Model, Robert Pitt and John Voorhees
Emerging Stormwater Controls for Critical Source Areas, Robert Pitt and Shirley Clark
Treatment of Stormwater Runoff from Urban Areas, John Sansalone and Jonathan Hird
Management of Sewer Sediments, Richard Ashley and T. Hvitved-Jacobsen
Management of Wet-Weather Flow Solids, Chi-Yuan Fan and Richard Field
Beneficial Use of Urban Stormwater, Chi-Yuan Fan
Low Impact Development: An Ecologically Sensitive Alternative for Stormwater Management, Larry Coffman and Michael Clar
Low Impact Development:Hydrologic Analyisis, Mow-Soung Cheng, Larry Coffman, and Michael Clar
Geomorphic Consideration in Stream Protection, Michael Clar
Geomorphic Consideration in Stream Restoration, James Gracie
Reviews
"…it provides a worthwhile insight into the
state-of-the-art in control of rain-water runoff in the USA EPA."
Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung Vol. 50, No. 1, Feb. 2006