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Stormwater Pollution Treatment Bmp Discharge Structures, Miles F. Simmons
Stormwater Pollution Treatment Bmp Discharge Structures, Miles F. Simmons
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Structural best management practices (BMPs) are used to capture and treat stormwater runoff. Most structural BMPs provide treatment by filtering runoff through a filter media or collecting it in a detention basin and slowly discharging it over an extended period of time to allow suspended solids and associated contaminants to settle out. The purpose of this study is to design an effective outlet structure that provides adequate filtration or slows discharge to 40 hours.
A model detention basin was constructed in the Civil Engineering Hydraulics Laboratory at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and two full scale outlet structures were tested …