Sentence examples for stormwater of from inspiring English sources

Although the city had an excellent natural drainage system consisting of 24 natural canals and a large retention wetland pond before 1940 (Haq 2006), with the rapid and unplanned urbanization, most of the canals have been illegally occupied by real estate companies and this has resulted reduced carrying capacity of stormwater of the city.

So, the difference of stormwater volumes of a catchment 'after' and 'before' of urban development is treated as the critical runoff to be removed from urban landscape to minimise flooding risk.

A reduction of stormwater inflow of 35.7%, however, was not statistically significant.

These five cities had explicit green infrastructure goals targeting the volume of stormwater or percentage of impervious cover managed by green infrastructure.

In this study we evaluate the stormwater performance of green roofs in the predominately winter rainfall climate of the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

Together with Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil, Institut für Umwelt und Verfahrenstechnik, the Ecotox Centre investigated the ecotoxicity of steel construction coatings used to prevent corrosion [37] and stormwater runoff of biocide-containing facade renders (Vermeirssen et al. submitted).

Mayor Emanuel announced a dedicated fund of $50 million to be spent over the next five years on green infrastructure the use of natural or permeable surfaces to capture, collect, hold and filter stormwater, instead of dumping it into the overstressed sewer system.

Although nitrogen (N) is prevalent in urban stormwater, regulation of this pollutant has occurred only more recently.

In order to optimize stormwater benefits of green roofs, designers should create explicitly regional designs that include plant selections better matched to the specific environmental and management constraints.

Stormwater runoff of traffic areas is usually polluted by organic and inorganic substances and must be treated prior to discharge into groundwater.

However, regional climatic conditions such as seasonality in rainfall and potential evapotranspiration could strongly alter the stormwater performance of green roofs.