title: Performance evaluation of various stormwater best management practices.
abstract: Many best management practices have been developed and implemented to treat the nonpoint source pollution of the aquatic environment in Korea's four major river basins. The performance and cost of these facilities were evaluated and compared using broad categories, including grassed swales, constructed wetlands, vegetated filter strips, hydrodynamic separators, media filters, and infiltration trenches, based on the monitoring and maintenance work undertaken between 2005 and 2012. Constructed wetlands, media filters, and infiltration trenches generally performed better in removing pollutants than other types of facilities, while media filters were the most expensive factor in terms of construction and operational costs. In addition, constructed wetlands incurred the least operational cost, as well as helping to control the quantity of runoff. This illustrates that a high cost facility does not necessarily give a better performance. A slightly more expensive facility, such as wetland, could prove to be a reasonably effective treatment. The selection of the most appropriate treatment for stormwater runoff should be based on an overall analysis of performance and cost.
authors.affiliation: School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jianghua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Haixia
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Liqiang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011891:Rain; D056910:Republic of Korea; D045483:Rivers; D012498:Sanitary Engineering / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States; D014872:Water Movements; D014876:Water Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control
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