Stormwater Runoff and Water Quality Modeling in Urban Maryland

dc.contributor.advisorForman, Barton Aen_US
dc.contributor.authorWang, Jingen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCivil Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-09T06:36:23Z
dc.date.available2016-02-09T06:36:23Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractUrbanization significantly affects storm water runoff through the creation of new impervious surfaces such as highways, parking lots, and rooftops. Such changes can adversely impact the downstream receiving water bodies in terms of physical, chemical, and biological conditions. In order to mitigate the effects of urbanization on downstream water bodies, stormwater control measures (SCMs) have been widely used (e.g., infiltration basins, bioswales). A suite of observations from an infiltration basin installed adjacent to a highway in urban Maryland was used to evaluate stormwater runoff attenuation and pollutant removal rates at the well-instrumented SCM study site. In this study, the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) was used to simulate the performance of the SCM. An automatic, split-sample calibration framework was developed to improve SWMM performance efficiency. The results indicate SWMM can accurately reproduce the hydraulic response of the SCM (in terms of reproducing measured inflow) during spring, fall, and winter, but is less accurate in reproducing measured outflow during summer time. Similar results were found for the modeled (and observed) inflow water quality constituent, total suspended solids (TSS).en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M23F02
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/17384
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCivil engineeringen_US
dc.titleStormwater Runoff and Water Quality Modeling in Urban Marylanden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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