Stream restoration milestones: monitoring scales determine successes and failures

SS Kaushal, ML Fork, RJ Hawley, KG Hopkins… - Urban …, 2023 - Springer
Urban stream restoration is growing globally, but there is much to learn from successes,
failures, and evaluating tradeoffs in restoration practices. Significant time and resources …

Prolonged drought in a northern California coastal region suppresses wildfire impacts on hydrology

ME Newcomer, J Underwood… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires naturally occur in many landscapes, however they are undergoing rapid regime
shifts. Despite the emphasis in the literature on the most severe hydrological responses to …

Lessons learned from 20 y of monitoring suburban development with distributed stormwater management in Clarksburg, Maryland, USA

KG Hopkins, SA Woznicki, BM Williams… - Freshwater …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Urban development is a well-known stressor for stream ecosystems, presenting a challenge
to managers tasked with mitigating its effects. For the past 20 y, streamflow, water quality …

Hydrologic impacts of sewershed-scale green infrastructure retrofits: Outcomes of a four-year paired watershed monitoring study

KM Boening-Ulman, RJ Winston, DM Wituszynski… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cities across the world are implementing green infrastructure (GI) retrofits to manage
stormwater, but limited research has been performed to quantify the hydrologic impact of …

Recognizing flood exposure inequities across flood frequencies

H Selsor, BP Bledsoe, R Lammers - Anthropocene, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban flooding is a growing threat due to land use and climate change. Vulnerable
populations tend to have greater exposure to flooding as a result of historical societal and …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling and interpreting hydrological responses of sustainable urban drainage systems with explainable machine learning methods

Y Yang, TFM Chui - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) are decentralized stormwater management
practices that mimic natural drainage processes. The hydrological processes of SuDS are …

Stormwater control impacts on runoff volume and peak flow: A meta‐analysis of watershed modelling studies

CD Bell, JM Wolfand, CL Panos… - Hydrological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Decades of research has concluded that the percent of impervious surface cover in a
watershed is strongly linked to negative impacts on urban stream health. Recently, there has …

Phase II MS4 challenges: moving toward effective stormwater management for small municipalities

L Rieck, C Carson, RJ Hawley, M Heller, M Paul… - Urban …, 2021 - Springer
Federal regulations for municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s) in the United States
have been in place since 1990 as part of the Nation Pollutant Discharge Elimination System …

Changes in hydrological behaviours triggered by earthquake disturbance in a mountainous watershed

G Zhang, P Cui, W Jin, Z Zhang, H Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Landslides induced by strong earthquakes often destroy large amounts of landscape
vegetation which can trigger significant changes in runoff potential and flood flow. Little is …

Effects of design and climate on bioretention effectiveness for watershed-scale hydrologic benefits

RW Lammers, L Miller, BP Bledsoe - Journal of Sustainable Water in …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
Bioretention areas are a common form of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI). There is
significant research on the performance of individual bioretention cells, but the watershed …