Stormwater infiltration in the highway environment : guidance manual / Aaron Poresky [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poresky, Aaron, author.

Strecker, Eric, author.

Gray, Myles, author.

Havens, Kelly, author.

Li, Yang, author.

Contributor:

Transportation Research Board, issuing body.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, issuing body.

Series:

National cooperative highway research program research report, 2572-3774 ; 922

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stormwater infiltration.

Water quality management.

Highway engineering--Environmental aspects.

Highway engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Washington : Transportation Research Board, 2019.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction and orientation

Key features and uses of this guidance manual

Introduction to infiltration approaches for stormwater management in the highway environment

Rationales for considering stormwater infiltration

Key limitations to infiltration as a stormwater management approach

Classes of infiltration approaches

Menu of infiltration BMPs

Overall infiltration assessment and decision-making framework

Chapter 2. Planning framework for early decision-making and tentative BMP selection

Establishment of infiltration objectives

Preliminary feasibility analyses to support BMP selection

Selection of preliminary infiltration approach

Tentative BMP selection

Chapter 3. Confirmation of BMP selection through prioritized analyses and investigations

BMP confirmation process by planning track

Design infiltration rate

Sizing and performance feasibility

Geotechnical findings and recommendations

Groundwater quality findings and recommendations

Alternative project delivery

Step 3 results—feasibility findings

Chapter 4. Key considerations for design, construction, and maintenance of infiltration BMPs

Overview

Soil and media clogging and associated design decisions

Selection of pretreatment BMPs

Adaptable design approaches for infiltration BMPs

Other design approaches to extend design life or improve resiliency

Construction site management and phasing to reduce impacts to infiltration and filtration BMPs

Design to facilitate BMP O&M

O&M manual

Post-construction monitoring

Chapter 5. BMP selection and sizing case studies

WSDOT filter strip design methodology

Adaptive design approach for a new project

Ballard rain gardens lessons learned

Summary

Acronyms

Glossary of key terms

References

Appendix A. Infiltration BMP fact sheets

Appendices B-J.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9780309672696