Hot, Salty Water: A Confluence Of Issues In Managing Stormwater Runoff For Urban Streams
- ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Kristan Cockerill Ph.D., Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- Appalachian State University (ASU )
- Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/
Abstract: Research increasingly highlights cause and effect relationships between urbanization and stream conditions are complex and highly variable across physical and biological regions. Research also demonstrates stormwater runoff is a key causal agent in altering stream conditions in urban settings. More specifically, thermal pollution and high salt levels are two consequences of urbanization and subsequent runoff. This study describes a demonstration model populated with data from a high gradient headwaters stream. The model was designed to explain surface water-groundwater dynamics related to salinity and thermal pollution. Modeled scenarios show long-term additive impacts from salt application and suggest reducing flow rates, as stormwater management practices are typically designed to do, have the potential to greatly reduce salt concentrations and simultaneously reduce thermal pollution. This demonstration model offers planners and managers reason to be confident that stormwater management efforts can have positive impacts.
Hot, Salty Water: A Confluence Of Issues In Managing Stormwater Runoff For Urban Streams
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- Publication
- Cockerill, Kristan, William P. Anderson, Jr., F. Claire Harris, and Kelli Straka, 2017. Hot, Salty Water: A Confluence of Issues in Managing Stormwater Runoff for Urban Streams. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 53(3):707-724. DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12528. Publisher version of record available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1752-1688.12528
- Language: English
- Date: 2017
- Keywords
- runoff, temperature, salinity, urbanization, urban stream syndrome, groundwater modeling,
stormwater management