The Hydrologic and Water Quality Performance of the Sligo-Dennis Bioretention Cell
| dc.contributor.advisor | Davis, Allen P | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Olszewski, Jennifer Marie | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Civil Engineering | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-10-07T06:00:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-10-07T06:00:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Bioretention cells have been found to improve the hydrologic and water quality performance of impervious areas such as parking lots. The current study recorded hydrologic data from a bioretention cell in Silver Spring, MD, over a period of 2 years, collecting water quality data from 14 storm events. Data showed the cell completely captured storm events that produced less than or equal to 1.27 cm of rainfall, after which a linear relationship between cell outflow and cell inflow was observed. The cell was found to reduce the site CN from 96 down to 79 and to have a CN of 96 when assessed as a separate land use. The hydrologic performance was also compared to that of a forested stream near Baltimore, MD. While the cell performed similarly volumetrically for storms producing less than or equal to 2 cm of rainfall, the Sligo-Dennis flow-durations were typically half the length and double the flowrate of those of the forested stream. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/10894 | |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Engineering, Environmental | en_US |
| dc.title | The Hydrologic and Water Quality Performance of the Sligo-Dennis Bioretention Cell | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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