The continued development of urban areas in recent decades has caused multiple issues
affecting the sustainability of urban drainage systems. The increase of impervious surface …

Urban streams have been the focus of much research in recent years, but many questions
about the mechanisms driving the urban stream syndrome remain unanswered …

The impervious cover model (ICM) has attracted considerable attention in recent years, with
nearly 250 research studies testing its basic hypothesis that the behavior of urban stream …

Based on the analysis of impervious surface cover and water balance studies, it is argued
that conventional, separately-sewered first-generation and alternative second-generation …

Studies of the effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems have usually focused on single
metropolitan areas. Synthesis of the results of such studies have been useful in developing …

Floating treatment wetlands (FTWs) are a relatively new water treatment practice that
consists of emergent wetland plants planted on floating mats constructed of buoyant …

This study evaluates the effects of urban land use on stream channels and riparian ground‐
water levels along low‐order Inner Coastal Plain streams in North Carolina. Six sites with …

The material of this book will derive its scientific under-pinning from basics of mathematics,
physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology, engineering, soil science, and related disciplines …

Heavy metals from urban stormwater runoff are important sources of surface water
pollutants. Sand, zeolite, sandy loam, and quartz-sand were separately mixed with lignin to …

Urban land development causes significant changes to river channel form and function.
Outcomes are strongly conditioned by local circumstances although responses such as …