RETENTION, DETENTION, AND OVERLAND FLOW FOR POLLUTANT REMOVAL FROM HIGHWAY STORMWATER RUNOFF. VOLUME II: DESIGN GUIDELINES

This volume is the second in a two-volume report which developed design guidelines and specifications for measures to reduce or eliminate the impacts of highway runoff on surface waters. This report provides design guidelines and specifications for three types of management measures for the removal of pollutants from highway stormwater runoff. The three general types of management measures, determined through previous FHWA studies to be effective in treating highway runoff, are: retention systems (basins, trenches, and wells), detention basins (wet detention basins, dry extended detention basins, and wetlands), and overland flow (grassed channels and filter strips). These guidelines have been developed based on the experience of the project team, review of available literature, and bench-scale and field testing.

• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/68211
• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also FHWA-RD-87-056 (TRIS 00469227) - Interim Design Guidelines for Management Measures; and FHWA-RD-96-095 - Volume I: Research Report.
• Corporate Authors:

  Versar Incorporated

  6850 Varsar Center
  Springfield, VA  United States  22151

  Camp Dresser and McKee Incorporated

  7630 Little River Turnpike, Suite 500
  Annandale, VA  United States  22003

  Federal Highway Administration

  Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, 6300 Georgetown Pike
  McLean, VA  United States  22101
• Authors:
  • Dorman, M E
  • George, T S
  • Hartigan, J P
  • Quasebarth, T F
• Publication Date: 1996-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 231 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Catch basins; Design; Detention basins; Ditches; Field studies; Guidelines; Guides to the literature; Laboratory tests; Literature reviews; Management; Pollutants; Runoff; Specifications; Traffic mitigation; Vegetation; Water pollution; Wetlands
• Uncontrolled Terms: Mitigation; Overland flow; Removal
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Design; Environment; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; I26: Water Run-off - Freeze-thaw;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00735914
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-RD-96-096, Final Report - Vol II, 3K7A
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-85-C-00117
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 1 1997 12:00AM