Control de escorrentías urbanas mediante Sistemas Urbanos de Drenaje Sostenible (SUDS): Pozos/Zanjas de infi ltración

Abstract

In the framework of the efficient management of water resources and the environment, the control of the surface runoff is an area of study of great importance in the development of cities, because their exponential growth and the increase of non-permeable hard zones produces greater runoff transport times. Thus, environmental and economic implications are generated that leads to the implementation of mayor structures for the respective transport. When the control by these elements is not possible, fl ood phenomena aff ect the quality of life of the population and emergency plans for these risks must be generated. The implementation of alternative sustainable drainage systems such as Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) allows to reduce and to delay the storm surges that occur in. Next, an analysis of results related to hydraulic and hydrological modeling and the EPA-SWMM, a program developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the analysis of rainfall and hydraulic behavior of networks of Sewerage.