IMPLEMENTING DUAL-PURPOSE STORMWATER DETENTION PROGRAMS

Stormwater management has been mainly directed to requiring developers to take steps to reduce flood damages due to incresed runoff caused by their developments. The principal means employed has been conventional detention basins. More recently it has been recognized that runoff pollution from development is detrimental to environmental quality downstream. A dual-purpose detention basin can settle out pollutants in particulate form with little increase in cost and an additional flood control benefit downstream. For best results, basin-wide planning aproach is needed which usually results in including master detention basins in the plan. Various institutional considerations are important, inluding coordination with the non-point source pollution control program expected to be authorized under the Clean Water Act.

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  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Whipple Jr, W
  • Kropp, R
  • Burke, S
• Publication Date: 1987-11

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 779-792
• Serial:
  • Journal of Water Resources Planning & Management
  • Volume: 113
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-9496

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Catch basins; Detention basins; Developers; Development; Drainage; Environmental protection; Real estate development; Runoff; Water quality
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; I26: Water Run-off - Freeze-thaw;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00474982
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 31 1987 12:00AM