Urban and Highway Stormwater Pollution

<p>As the world population grows already burgeoning cities are becoming taxed in every conceivable way. One topic that receives few headlines but significantly impacts an area’s quality of health and economic development is the challenge to maintain sustainable urban drainage (SUD). Poor drainage can hamper transportation add to problems of pollution and compromise essential clean water resources. While a number of references concentrate on the hydrology hydraulics and transport phenomena relevant for urban drainage we must recognize that any solution requires a more comprehensive consideration of the problem.</p><p><strong>Urban and Highway Stormwater Pollution: Concepts and Engineering</strong> offers a comprehensive text on wet weather pollution originating from urban drainage and road runoff. Bringing together the empirical and theoretical approaches needed to mitigate the problem this volume:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Provides a basic understanding of sources pathways and impacts of pollutants associated with wet weather hydrologic cycles occurring in areas with impervious or semi-impervious surfaces</li> <p> </p> <li>Examines wet weather pollutant discharges into streams lakes and coastal waters as well as soil systems</li> <p> </p> <li>Details tools to quantify physical chemical and biological characteristics associated with wet weather pollution and methodologies for pollution abatement control and monitoring runoff</li> </ul><ul> <p> </p> <li>Offers general methodologies and site-specific approaches to deal with stormwater runoff road runoff and sewer overflows </li> <p> </p> <li>Supplies reliable predictive tools and modeling methods</li> </ul><p>SUD is rapidly becoming a problem of crisis proportions; but while we must act quickly any solution must be based on sound principles accurate data and proven methods. Written by top researchers with years of experience this book offers those working at the front line with an accessible resource that helps ameliorate problem situations and prevent others from developing.</p>