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Improving the Treatment Performance of Low Impact Development Practices—Comparison of Sand and Bioretention Soil Mixtures Using Column Experiments by Shahrokh Hamedani, Abtin (author);Bazilio, Arianne (author);Soleimanifar, Hanieh (author);Shipley, Heather (author);Giacomoni, Marcio (author) is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Improving the Treatment Performance of Low Impact Development Practices—Comparison of Sand and Bioretention Soil Mixtures Using Column Experiments about?
Low impact development (LID) practices, such as bioretention and sand filter basins, are stormwater control measures designed to mitigate the adverse impacts of urbanization on stormwater. LID treatment performance is highly dependent on the media characteristics. The literature suggests that bioretention media often leach nutrients in the stormwater effluent. The objective of this study was to analyze the treatment performance of different sand and bioretention soil mixtures. Specifically, this investigation aimed to answer whether the use of limestone and recycled glass could improve the treatment performance of bioretention systems. Column experiments were designed to assess (1) the removal efficiencies of different sand and bioretention soil mixtures and (2) the impact of plant uptake on removal rates. Enhanced pollutant removal was observed for the custom blends with addition of limestone sand, indicating mean dissolved and total phosphorus removal of 44.5% and 32.6% respectively, while the conventional bioretention soil mixtures leached phosphorus. Moreover, improved treatment of dissolved and total copper was achieved with mean removal rates of 70.7% and 93.4%, respectively.
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- Author
- Shahrokh Hamedani, Abtin (author);Bazilio, Arianne (author);Soleimanifar, Hanieh (author);Shipley, Heather (author);Giacomoni, Marcio (author)
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)