A paper by Bill Selbig and his colleagues in Wisconsin summarizes a six-year paired monitoring study of a traditional subdivision versus a subdivision that was designed with LID practices. The results indicate a significantly different hydrological response from the LID subdivision. Click here for a copy.
This long-awaited paper summarizes one of the nation’s longest running LID research sites, the Jordan Cove Study. This updated review of the results of this landmark monitoring study can be accessed here.
This 2008 report released by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation looks at the feasibility of Low-Impact Development practices using three real world urban redevelopment project sites in Maryland. Modeling showed that these practices enabled dense urban mixed-use redevelopment projects in Maryland to capture and filter/ infiltrate substantial volumes of stormwater at reasonable costs when compared with conventional (non-green) solutions such as underground storage tanks. This is an important finding as Bay states struggle to define more stringent stormwater requirements for redevelopment projects. To get a copy of their study and modeling assumptions click here.
Dr. Shirley Clark is one of the hidden gems of the Chesapeake Bay stormwater research community, tirelessly working out in her fine labs at Penn State- Harrisburg. She recently sent me a paper
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