{"title":"Corrigendum: <i>Blue-Green Systems</i> 4 (1), 45–57: Understanding the effects of site-scale water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) in the urban water cycle: a review, Xuli Meng, http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2022.026","authors":"","doi":"10.2166/bgs.2023.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2023.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9337,"journal":{"name":"Blue-Green Systems","volume":"2 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135568076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Richard Ampomah, Danielle Holt, Cole Smith, Virginia Smith, Kristin Sample-Lord, Jonathan Nyquist
{"title":"Modeling bioinfiltration surface dynamics through a hybrid geomorphic-infiltration model","authors":"Richard Ampomah, Danielle Holt, Cole Smith, Virginia Smith, Kristin Sample-Lord, Jonathan Nyquist","doi":"10.2166/bgs.2023.027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2023.027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Bioinfiltration systems are an increasingly prevalent mechanism for urban stormwater mitigation. One major challenge for the sustainability of bioinfiltration systems is erosion and channelization due to high bed shear stresses developed during large storm events. Sedimentation within these systems could also impact their performance as fine sediment may clog pathways necessary for infiltration. Understanding the geomorphology, shear stress, and sediment flux in the system can help predict maintenance needs associated with erosion and deposition. The current study introduces a framework for addressing this problem by combining a sediment transport model, FaSTMECH, with the Green-Ampt infiltration model. A comparison of observed and predicted ponding depths shows very good agreement (median Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency coefficient = 0.93) and demonstrates the ability of this novel framework in predicting the hydraulics and morphology within a bioswale bioinfiltration system. The framework introduced in this study opens the door to understanding sediment transport dynamics within a bioswale, which has the potential to advance planning and design to minimize impacts due to excessive erosion or deposition within bioswale bioinfiltration systems.","PeriodicalId":9337,"journal":{"name":"Blue-Green Systems","volume":"2013 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135815404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Raspati, S. Bruaset, Kamal Azrague, R. Ugarelli, T. Muthanna, Berit Time, E. Sivertsen
{"title":"Framework for the documentation of nature-based solutions for stormwater management","authors":"G. Raspati, S. Bruaset, Kamal Azrague, R. Ugarelli, T. Muthanna, Berit Time, E. Sivertsen","doi":"10.2166/bgs.2023.131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2023.131","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Nature-based solutions (NBSs) are widely implemented for stormwater management as such they have become important assets that require proper asset management at different stages of their service life. Hence, there is a need for systematic documentation of the applied NBS in accordance with the principles of infrastructure asset management and in combination with a set of requirements in the newly adopted National Standard NS3456:2022 in Norway. A framework for the documentation of NBSs was developed based on a systematic literature study, the experience gained from operating NBS pilots, and the interaction with stakeholders in a research centre, Klima 2050. The framework proposed a set of specific information in the form of a data structure covering a set of categories that presents information gathered during the planning, design, operation, and maintenance phases of the NBS. Both technical and sociotechnical aspects were included in the data structure. The data structure can be tailor-made depending on the type of NBS applied. The data structure was applied in documenting the NBS pilots of the research centre to demonstrate the framework's ability to help ensure a smooth flow of information from the actors involved in the planning, constructing, and operating of the NBS.","PeriodicalId":9337,"journal":{"name":"Blue-Green Systems","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44509508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cost-effective method for the estimation of tree crown density in urban settings using a smartphone","authors":"Ivo Sippel, Lucie Moeller, Jan Friesen","doi":"10.2166/bgs.2023.029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2023.029","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 Urban trees provide vital ecosystem services, and assessing their health is crucial for managing urban infrastructure. Traditional methods of assessing crown density, an indicator of tree vitality, involve horizontal perspectives of unobstructed canopies. This study presents a novel method for estimating crown density in urban street trees that are surrounded by obstructing objects like buildings. The approach is based on photographs of the tree crown from defined positions using a smartphone. The method was validated on eight small-leaved lime trees in Leipzig during the 2021 vegetation period, demonstrating that crown density can be estimated by analyzing smartphone-photographs from various perspectives. The method provides data to quantify crown development and can be used to compare the vitality status of individual trees. The different perspectives are consistent in their estimates of crown density throughout the annual plateau phase of crown development. During the initial greening phase, crown photographs taken from angularly oriented positions showed a higher slope value than those taken from other positions. The method can also estimate the effect of blue-green infrastructures on tree vitality compared to regular urban tree planting methods. The approach is a practical and cost-effective tool for assessing tree vitality in spatially confined urban areas.","PeriodicalId":9337,"journal":{"name":"Blue-Green Systems","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47200657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The economic impact of water supply disruption from the Selangor River, Malaysia","authors":"A. Raihan, J. Pereira, R. Begum, R. Rasiah","doi":"10.2166/bgs.2023.031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2023.031","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The insidious economic impact of water disruption has received less attention compared to palpable climate disasters, but climate change and water security concerns call for investigation on cost consequences of property values and business losses in an already fragile water supply-demand balance in many developing countries. The economic impact of frequent water supply disruptions from the Selangor River in Malaysia due to technical issues, water pollution, and climate-related problems was estimated using the stock flow measure to assess property at risk, and survey to estimate business loss. The findings revealed that commercial, residential, and industrial property valued at RM459,041 million in 2020 in the State of Selangor and parts of Kuala Lumpur, were at risk due to frequent water supply disruptions. A survey of small and medium enterprises from the manufacturing, construction, and services sectors revealed that 46% of the respondents were affected with losses amounting to RM2,053 million. The total economic impact of water supply disruption in 2020, combining both property value at risk and business loss, is amounted to RM461,094 million, which accounted for 34% of Malaysia's GDP. A number of recommendations are made to prevent the widespread occurrence of water disruptions.","PeriodicalId":9337,"journal":{"name":"Blue-Green Systems","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46101575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do material characteristics and antimicrobial mechanisms affect microbial control and water disinfection performance of metal nanoparticles?","authors":"Jinghan Zhao, Peihua Yan, Aizaz Qureshi, C. Yi","doi":"10.2166/bgs.2023.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2023.007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 Nanotechnology has been rapidly developing in the past decade, and metal nanomaterials have shown promising improvement in microbial control. Metal nanoparticles have been applied in medical settings for adequate disease spread control and to overcome the challenges of multidrug-resistant microorganisms. Recently, the demand for safe water supply has increased, requiring higher sanitation of the water treatment technology as well as being environmentally sustainable. However, the employed water disinfection technologies cannot meet the elevated demand due to limitations including chemical byproducts, immobility, energy consumption, etc. Metal nanomaterials are considered to be an alternative disinfection technology considering their high efficiency, mobility, and stability. A significant amount of research has been carried out on enhancing the antimicrobial efficiency of metal nanomaterials and determining the underlying antimicrobial mechanisms. This paper provides an overview of emerging metal nanomaterials development, including the synthesis method, material characteristics, disinfection performance, environmental factors, potential mechanism, limitations, and future opportunities in the water disinfection process.","PeriodicalId":9337,"journal":{"name":"Blue-Green Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42873567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-naturing cities through water-centric development: evaluating a canal restoration project in Narayanganj City, Bangladesh","authors":"Imon Chowdhooree, T. Aziz","doi":"10.2166/bgs.2023.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2023.003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 The concept of ‘re-naturing cities’ promotes nature-based solutions for sustainable urban design; one of those being water-centric development with networks of blue (water bodies) and green (vegetation areas) aims to generate urban areas that support economic growth, strengthen social cohesion, and restore degraded ecosystems. Projects get implemented for revitalizing urban water bodies with multifunctional areas. This context demands to study water-centric development projects for evaluating their success of ‘re-naturing cities’ in terms of achieving sustainable goals. This research analyzes a part of a canal restoration project of Narayanganj City, Bangladesh, for investigating the development process and understanding its effectiveness in achieving sustainable goals. The study employs multiple qualitative tools for capturing users' views (emic analysis) and researchers' views (etic analysis). The combined understanding identifies that the project focuses primarily on adding an aesthetically pleasing element to the urban fabric, overlooking multiple socioeconomic and ecological possibilities of living with water.","PeriodicalId":9337,"journal":{"name":"Blue-Green Systems","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44518510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abolfazl Poozan, M. J. Burns, M. Arora, A. Western
{"title":"Quantifying the impact of the urban karst on infiltrated stormwater","authors":"Abolfazl Poozan, M. J. Burns, M. Arora, A. Western","doi":"10.2166/bgs.2023.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2023.002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 Urbanization alters the flow regime of streams, including increasing the frequency and magnitude of storm flows, along with reducing baseflows. An increasingly common management strategy is stormwater infiltration, which is thought to reduce surface runoff and recharge groundwater and thus restore lost baseflows to streams. Recent research has pointed to considerable uncertainty on the fate of infiltrated stormwater, particularly due to the presence of human-made underground infrastructure – e.g. sewer and water supply pipes, telecommunication cables. Such infrastructure is commonly housed in trenches partially filled with highly permeable material and this can cause urban karst like flow conditions. We used a dynamic subsurface flow model (HYDRUS-3D) to predict the impact of the urban karst on the fate of infiltrated stormwater. The model was constructed with the presence of a sewer pipe situated between an infiltration basin and a stream. The model predicted that the impact of the urban karst on infiltrated stormwater increases with higher groundwater levels, and greater contrast between hydraulic conductivity of regional soil and gravel which surrounds the sewer pipe. Results suggest that it is important to consider the impact of the urban karst in cases where the goal of stormwater infiltration is baseflow restoration.","PeriodicalId":9337,"journal":{"name":"Blue-Green Systems","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45435549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatiotemporal estimation of fresh submarine groundwater discharge across the coastal shorelines of Oahu Island, Hawaii","authors":"K. A. Ghazal, O. T. Leta, H. Dulai","doi":"10.2166/bgs.2023.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2023.010","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The integrated hydrological model is a powerful tool that is used to assess the temporal distribution of fresh groundwater discharge especially in coastal areas. The coastal regions of Hawaii are examples of crucial natural resources for the Hawaiian economy and general ecological health. To fully comprehend the intricate interactions between coastal hydrology processes and ecosystems, it is necessary to evaluate the fresh submarine groundwater discharge (FSGD) at the Heeia shoreline using an integrated hydrological modeling technique. Under steady-state settings, the results showed that the present daily average of FSGD is around 0.43 m3/days across 1 m of the shoreline. However, we showed that the FSGD values were considerably impacted by climate change, groundwater head of the coastal aquifer, recharge rate, and sea level rise, particularly by the end of the 21st century. The post-development FSGD fluxes were 1.5–3.5 times greater than the freshwater transported by the Heeia stream, demonstrating the considerable contribution of the FSGD to the coastal zones of Heeia. The results also showed an exponential association between the FSGD and the groundwater level for the coastal unconfined aquifer.","PeriodicalId":9337,"journal":{"name":"Blue-Green Systems","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47305643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
José Manuel Tunqui Neira, M. Gromaire, K. Chancibault, G. Chebbo
{"title":"Toward a comprehensive functional typology of stormwater control measures for hydrological and water quality modeling purposes","authors":"José Manuel Tunqui Neira, M. Gromaire, K. Chancibault, G. Chebbo","doi":"10.2166/bgs.2023.026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2023.026","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 Stormwater control measures (SCMs) are designed according to different urban stormwater management criteria. These criteria are usually the basis for the conception of SCM typologies. Although these typologies are useful, there is currently no typology that can generically describe all the diversity of SCMs and that is adapted for modeling. Thus, a new typology is proposed here. This typology is based on two criteria commonly used in stormwater management: the hydrological function and the type of structure. These two criteria are combined through a cross table. This combination yields the identification of 16 groups of SCMs represented graphically by physical compartments. These groups make it possible to represent a large diversity of existing SCMs. The new typology also allows a more adequate identification and conceptualization – via a reservoir-type approach – of the different hydrological and reactive processes occurring at the SCM level.","PeriodicalId":9337,"journal":{"name":"Blue-Green Systems","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44288612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}