The use of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) or Best Management Practice (BMP) is becoming increasingly common. However, rather than adopting the preferred “treatment train” implementation, many developments opt for end of pipe control ponds. This paper discusses the use of SuDS in series to form treatment trains and compares their potential performance and effectiveness with end of pipe solutions. Land-use, site and catchment characteristics have been used alongside up-to-date guidance, Infoworks CS and MUSIC to determine whole-life-costs, land-take, water quality and water quantity for different SuDS combinations. The results presented show that the use of a treatment train allows approaches differing from the traditional use of single SuDS, either source or “end of pipe”, to be proposed to treat and attenuate runoff. The outcome is a more flexible solution where the footprint allocated to SuDS, costs and water quality can be managed differently to satisfy more efficiently the holistically stakeholders' objectives.
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January 01 2010
The best management of SuDS treatment trains: a holistic approach
Nicolas Bastien;
1School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK
E-mail: nrb5@hw.ac.uk
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Scott Arthur;
Scott Arthur
1School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK
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Stephen Wallis;
Stephen Wallis
1School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK
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Miklas Scholz
Miklas Scholz
2School of Engineering, Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JL, UK
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Water Sci Technol (2010) 61 (1): 263–272.
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Nicolas Bastien, Scott Arthur, Stephen Wallis, Miklas Scholz; The best management of SuDS treatment trains: a holistic approach. Water Sci Technol 1 January 2010; 61 (1): 263–272. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2010.806
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