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Stormwater management in urbanizing areas
| Author: |
Whipple, William; Grigg, Neil S.; Grizzard, Thomas [and others] |
| Date: |
1983 |
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Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. |
| Abstract: |
This book describes how rapidly developing urbanization increases flooding and stream erosion and creates pollution of storm runoff, and how programs called stormwater management can prevent such environmental damage. Stormwater management is a new approach, which consists of the control of storm runoff, onsite or in small streams, by means of programs which may include land use control, detention/retention of runoff, erosion control, and drainage. Stormwater management in the headwaters is a necessary supplement to programs of flood control and floodplain management, which have been applied to problems of larger streams and rivers. The authors have combined recent research results with experience from various parts of the country to explain how important the management of new developments and of small streams is to national environmental and economic approaches. |
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