Urban Stormwater Control, Utilization, and Treatment

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable urban stormwater management has been a hot research topic in the context of the rapid urbanization and changing climate. Specifically, effective approaches to urban stormwater control, utilization and treatment are of great importance for the mitigation of challenges regarding waterlogging and water pollution that are faced in urban areas. Holistic and nature-based technologies in urban stormwater control, utilization and treatment have been widely accepted and implemented around the globe, including strategies such as the green stormwater infrastructure (GSI), low-impact development (LID) practices, best management practices (BMPs), sponge city (SC) practice, sustainable urban drainage system (SUDS), water-sensitive urban design (WSUD), the Active Beautiful and Clean (ABC) Waters Programme, etc.

Stormwater control, utilization and treatment measures can generally be classified into various retention-based, infiltration-based and filter-based types for both water quantity and water quality management purposes. Examples of these practices include detention ponds, CSO tanks, wetlands, rainwater harvesting systems, green roofs, rain gardens, bioretention cells, permeable pavements, infiltration trenches, perforated pipes, etc. Proper approaches to the planning, design, analysis, operation and maintenance of stormwater control, utilization and treatment facilities can enhance the resilience and adaption capacity of stormwater systems to urban flooding and contamination hazards in the current changing environment induced by climate change and human activities.

The current Special Issue welcomes manuscripts focusing on up-to-date knowledge related to “Urban Stormwater Control, Utilization and Treatment”, welcoming all related manuscripts. Contributions to this Special Issue may involve laboratory and field tests of stormwater control, utilization and treatment practices, or numerical simulations and analytical derivation approaches either on an event basis or based on a continuous simulation/analysis. Original research, literature review or critical review papers are welcome. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Stormwater management, policy and guidelines;
• Low-impact development/green infrastructure/sponge city;
• Urban hydrologic and hydraulic processes;
• Assessing the hydrologic performance of stormwater control measures;
• Assessing the cost-effectiveness of stormwater control measures;
• Assessing the reliability of rainwater harvesting systems;
• Optimal sizing of stormwater control facilities;
• Operation and maintenance for stormwater control facilities;
• Laboratory/field studies on urban stormwater control, utilization and treatment;
• Numerical simulation (SWMM, HEC-HMS, InfoWorks, MIKE, etc.) studies on urban stormwater control, utilization and treatment;
• Analytical derivations for the design and analysis of stormwater control facilities;
• Impacts of climate change on urban stormwater control, utilization and treatment;
• Pollutant removal efficiency of urban stormwater control measures;
• Spatial-temporal scale effects on the modelling of stormwater control systems;
• Statistical analysis of the risk, reliability, resilience, vulnerability or sustainability for the stormwater system in an uncertain environment;
• Stormwater treatment technologies;
• Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS)/urban water-sensitive design (UWSD);
• Nature-based solutions (NBS);
• Flood resilience of urban drainage system;
• Innovative ways to recycle rainwater.

Dr. Jun Wang
Dr. Shouhong Zhang
Dr. Anita Raimondi
Guest Editors

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