Measuring Pollutant Removal Efficiencies of Stormwater Treatment Units

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• Creators:
  Zhang, Xiaoqi (Jackie)
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering ; New England Transportation Consortium
• Corporate Contributors:
  University of Connecticut
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Bacteria
  • Best practices
  • Highways
  • Maintenance
  • Measuring instruments
  • Pollutants
  • Runoff
  • Sediments
  • Water pollution
  • Streets
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  NETCR54 ; NETC 03-4 A
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Massachusetts ; Rhode Island
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  01010915
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  New England Transportation Consortium
• Abstract:
  This study evaluated the bacteria removal efficiency, and bacteria distribution and survivability within a structural BMP called Vortechs System (manufactured by Stormwater 360, formerly Vortechnics, Inc.) installed at two different sites in Providence, Rhode Island. Twelve rain events with precipitations greater than 0.1 inch were sampled over a two year period. Five pathogenic indicator bacteria, E. coli, Enterococci, Fecal Streptococci, Total Coliform, Fecal Coliform, were analyzed. Based on our research results, maintenance strategies such as more frequent sediment removal may be necessary to prevent pathogen-rich washouts to receiving waters. Structural BMPs near busy streets and highway should be cleaned out more frequently.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/39806/dot_39806_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 353.92 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:97de63cc06a1af5f36d19ce9e06f91d53608bcdc1c337087f26d41186d0d4e17