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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,158 Views
17 Pages

Study on the Influence of Sponge Road Bioretention Facility on the Stability of Subgrade Slope

  • Wensheng Tang,
  • Haiyuan Ma,
  • Xinyue Wang,
  • Zhiyu Shao,
  • Qiang He and
  • Hongxiang Chai

6 December 2021

With the large-scale application of sponge city facilities, the bioretention facility in urban roads will be one of the key factors affecting the safety of construction facilities in areas with abundant rainfall. In this study, by establishing a thre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,582 Views
22 Pages

The Carbon Emission Intensity of Rainwater Bioretention Facilities

  • Deqi Wang,
  • Xuefeng Liu,
  • Huan Li,
  • Hai Chen,
  • Xiaojuan Wang,
  • Wei Li,
  • Lianbao Cao,
  • Jianlin Liu,
  • Tingting Zhang and
  • Bigui Wei

4 January 2024

To investigate the quantitative relationship between the volume capture of rainfall and carbon emissions from bioretention facilities, this study introduces the concept of the carbon intensity of volume capture of rainfall. The influence of four key...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,033 Views
14 Pages

2 December 2022

Bioretention facilities reduce stormwater runoff and pollutants, but there is a concern that plants in bioretention facilities may absorb heavy metal pollutants from stormwater runoff, which might impair the growth of the plant species. To investigat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,049 Views
19 Pages

Field Study of the Road Stormwater Runoff Bioretention System with Combined Soil Filter Media and Soil Moisture Conservation Ropes in North China

  • Qian Li,
  • Haifeng Jia,
  • Hongkai Guo,
  • Yunyun Zhao,
  • Guohua Zhou,
  • Fang Yee Lim,
  • Huiling Guo,
  • Teck Heng Neo,
  • Say Leong Ong and
  • Jiangyong Hu

29 January 2022

Growing concerns about urban runoff pollution and water scarcity caused by urbanization have prompted the application of bioretention facilities to manage urban stormwater. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of proposed biorete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,675 Views
12 Pages

10 November 2017

Over the last decades, a number of bio-retention facilities have been installed in urban areas for flood control and green amenity purposes. As urban amenity facilities for citizens, bio-retentions have a lot potential; however, the literature on bio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,776 Views
20 Pages

Biological retention facilities are widely used in the construction of new urban infrastructure because of the increasingly serious problems of urban waterlogging and rainwater pollution. At present, a common method to resolve these problems is to im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,901 Views
14 Pages

Sustainable Urban Street Comprising Permeable Pavement and Bioretention Facilities: A Practice

  • Yiqing Dai,
  • Jiwang Jiang,
  • Xingyu Gu,
  • Yanjing Zhao and
  • Fujian Ni

8 October 2020

Roadside bioretention and permeable pavements have proven effectiveness in rainwater filtration and waterlogging mitigation, but conventional street design approach could not accommodate their work in conjunction. In this research, possible roadside...

  • Article
  • Open Access
908 Views
19 Pages

Hydrological Effects of Bioretention Facilities in an Environment with a High Groundwater Table and Their Impacts on Groundwater

  • Yuhui Wang,
  • Yilan Yang,
  • Haolang Liu,
  • Zizhen Qi,
  • Siyu Tian,
  • Xiangjing Mo,
  • Hanbo Chen and
  • Yongwei Gong

6 April 2025

With urbanization accelerating, low-impact development (LID) facilities, particularly bioretention facilities, play a crucial role in urban water management. However, rising groundwater tables present challenges for their application in high-water-ta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,466 Views
17 Pages

14 February 2022

Low-impact development (LID) is a common management practice used to infiltrate and filter stormwater through vegetated soil systems. The pollutant reduction potential of these systems is often characterized by a single pollutant removal rate; howeve...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,241 Views
12 Pages

18 February 2022

Bioretention facilities with different inflow concentrations, growing media and plants were examined to determine whether the soil in these facilities was polluted with heavy metals and whether runoff had obvious toxic effects on plants. Using Beijin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,851 Views
22 Pages

27 April 2020

Roadside bio-retention (RBR) facilities are low impact development practices, which control urban runoff primarily from road pavements. Using hydrologic models, such as the US EPA Storm Water Management Model (SWMM), RBR are typically designed with s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,972 Views
18 Pages

Evaluating Curb Inlet Efficiency for Urban Drainage and Road Bioretention Facilities

  • Xiaoning Li,
  • Xing Fang,
  • Gang Chen,
  • Yongwei Gong,
  • Jianlong Wang and
  • Junqi Li

23 April 2019

An updated two-dimensional flow simulation program, FullSWOF-ZG, which fully (Full) solves shallow water (SW) equations for overland flow (OF) and includes submodules modeling infiltration by zones (Z) and flow interception by grate-inlet (G), was te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,822 Views
17 Pages

17 January 2021

Bioretention systems are frequently employed in stormwater treatment to reduce phosphorus pollution and prevent eutrophication. To enhance their efficiency, filter additives are required but the currently used traditional materials cannot meet the pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,067 Views
15 Pages

4 November 2022

The thermal pollution of stormwater runoff is an important factor in the degradation of the urban water environment. Bioretention is an effective way to control the thermal pollution of stormwater runoff. To understand the influence of different rain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,327 Views
15 Pages

7 June 2024

Bioretention can be an efficient measure of stormwater treatment. The bioretention system has been globally adapted for controlling rainfall-runoff volume and removing pollutants. However, there is a lack of systematic analysis of some hydrological p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,643 Views
16 Pages

28 July 2021

It is practical to carry out sponge cities to manage rain and floods in collapsible loess areas where water resources and water disasters are prominent. The infiltration laws of the partial anti-seepage bioretention in collapsible loess fields are he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,602 Views
20 Pages

Runoff Control Performance of Three Typical Low-Impact Development Facilities: A Case Study of a Community in Beijing

  • Jiayi Xiao,
  • Zhiwei Zhou,
  • Zhiyu Yang,
  • Zhili Li,
  • Xiaolong Li,
  • Jinjun Zhou and
  • Hao Wang

23 August 2024

The development of sponge cities advocates for sustainable urban rainwater management, effectively alleviating urban flood disasters, reducing non-point-source pollution, and promoting the recycling of rainwater resources. Low-Impact Development (LID...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,796 Views
26 Pages

26 June 2024

Low-Impact Developments (LIDs), like green roofs and bioretention cells, are vital for managing stormwater and reducing pollution. Amidst climate change, assessing both current and future LID systems is crucial. This study utilizes variably saturated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,606 Views
18 Pages

Estimation of Pollution Export Coefficients of Tea Farms and Its Application in Watershed Management

  • Chia-Chun Ho,
  • Yu-Qian Su,
  • Chi-Feng Chen,
  • Yi-Xuan Lin and
  • Hsiu-Feng Liu

4 June 2024

Tea is an important economic crop worldwide, especially in Asian countries. However, tea cultivation requires substantial fertilizer use and may become a nutrient pollution source and affect water quality. This study presented two objectives: one was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,691 Views
16 Pages

4 March 2022

When implementing nonpoint source pollution control plans, the size or number of required controlling facilities is a very practical issue. However, quantifying nonpoint source pollution is difficult because it is generated by variable and random rai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
12,515 Views
17 Pages

4 November 2016

Personal Computer Stormwater Management Model (PCSWMM) was applied to investigate: (1) hydrological responses in the Myponga catchment as a result of land use changes; and (2) the possibility of adopting Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) technologi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,354 Views
15 Pages

13 May 2021

The additive fillers in bioretention facilities play a leading role in stormwater treatment to purify polluted runoff. At present, many traditional materials could not meet the requirements at the same time, including low ammonium leaching quantities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,361 Views
13 Pages

Effect of a Submerged Zone and Carbon Source on Nutrient and Metal Removal for Stormwater by Bioretention Cells

  • Mo Wang,
  • Dongqing Zhang,
  • Yong Li,
  • Qinghe Hou,
  • Yuying Yu,
  • Jinda Qi,
  • Weicong Fu,
  • Jianwen Dong and
  • Yuning Cheng

12 November 2018

A bioretention system is a low-impact and sustainable treatment facility for treating urban stormwater runoff. To meet or maintain a consistently satisfactory performance, especially in terms of increasing nitrogen removal efficiency, the introductio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,464 Views
25 Pages

To counter the impacts of climate change and urbanization, engineers have developed ingenious solutions to reduce flooding and capture stormwater contaminants through the use of Low Impact Developments (LIDs). The soil is generally considered to be c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,599 Views
19 Pages

20 December 2023

With the rapid advancement of ecological civilization construction, prioritizing green stormwater infrastructure to address urban stormwater management issues has become an important strategy for ecological priority and green development in sustainab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,931 Views
16 Pages

1 June 2022

Source facilities can manage stormwater runoff pollutants while also limiting runoff volume in China’s sponge city construction. However, there is no apparent link between source volume control and runoff pollution reduction. This research uses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
17,590 Views
20 Pages

Assessment on the Effectiveness of Urban Stormwater Management

  • Yixin Zhang,
  • Weihan Zhao,
  • Xue Chen,
  • Changhyun Jun,
  • Jianli Hao,
  • Xiaonan Tang and
  • Jun Zhai

22 December 2020

Stormwater management is a key issue in line with global problems of urbanization and climate change. Assessing the effectiveness in managing stormwater is crucial to maintain urban resilience to flooding risk. A method based on a stormwater manageme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,506 Views
16 Pages

The Effects of Rainfall Runoff Pollutants on Plant Physiology in a Bioretention System Based on Pilot Experiments

  • Yongwei Gong,
  • Yan Hao,
  • Junqi Li,
  • Haiyan Li,
  • Zhenyao Shen,
  • Wenhai Wang and
  • Sisi Wang

14 November 2019

Bioretention facilities have been widely used in the construction of Sponge City in China, but there have also been doubts about whether road runoff pollutants have adverse effects on plant growth. In response to this problem, this paper explored the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
6,126 Views
13 Pages

Effect of Saturated Zone on Nitrogen Removal Processes in Stormwater Bioretention Systems

  • Chuansheng Wang,
  • Fan Wang,
  • Huapeng Qin,
  • Xiangfei Zeng,
  • Xueran Li and
  • Shaw-Lei Yu

7 February 2018

The introduction of a saturated zone (SZ) has been recommended to address the issue of nitrogen removal fluctuation in the bioretention system, which is one of the most versatile low-impact development facilities for urban stormwater management. Nine...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,114 Views
13 Pages

19 April 2018

The selection of sponge city facilities (e.g., pump, storage tank, wetland, or bioretention pond) to mitigate urban floods has been a crucial issue in China. This study aims to develop a conceptual flood-simulation model, which can take into account...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,233 Views
14 Pages

Assessing Hydrological Performances of Bioretention Cells to Meet the LID Goals

  • Yanwei Sun,
  • Qingyun Li,
  • Furong Yu,
  • Mingwei Ma and
  • Cundong Xu

26 February 2023

BRCs (bioretention cells), one of many low-impact development (LID) practices, are increasingly utilized to lessen the amount of runoff while simultaneously improving the runoff quality. Because the goal of BRCs and LID designs, in general, is to mim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,958 Views
15 Pages

Application of the SUSTAIN Model to a Watershed-Scale Case for Water Quality Management

  • Chi-Feng Chen,
  • Ming-Yang Sheng,
  • Chia-Ling Chang,
  • Shyh-Fang Kang and
  • Jen-Yang Lin

25 November 2014

Low impact development (LID) is a relatively new concept in land use management that aims to maintain hydrological conditions at a predevelopment level without deteriorating water quality during land development. The United States Environmental Prote...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,259 Views
16 Pages

30 November 2021

In recent decades, low impact development (LID) has become an increasingly important concern as a state-of-the-art stormwater management mode to treat urban flood, preferable to conventional urban drainage systems. However, the effects of the combine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,108 Views
14 Pages

13 May 2024

Over the past few decades, there has been a notable surge in interest in green stormwater infrastructure (GSI). This trend is a result of the need to effectively address issues related to runoff, pollution, and the adverse effects of urbanization and...