URBS 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Total Maximum Daily Load, Hydrograph, Surface Runoff

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Urbs 150: chapter 8 of seven rules of sustainable communities: invest in lighter, greener, cheaper, Water that should go into the ground goes into pipelines or rivers instead, which can contaminate our freshwater and drinking water: outline four (4) benefits of a canopy cover of riparian vegetation along stream corridors. What are its goals and how have these goals changed over the years: the clean water act is still the only regulation governing u. s. water quality, and all 50 states ha(cid:448)e alig(cid:374)ed poli(cid:272)ies (cid:449)ith it. Infiltrate, infiltrate, infiltrate: if all the rainwater that falls on the site could go into the ground, then the predevelopment hydrograph is emulated. Infiltrate everywhere: all infiltration should occur on the soft lawn and boulevard areas, which constitute 50% of the site. If these lawns can infiltrate the one inch per day that falls on them, and can infiltrate the water that flows off of adjacent paved surfaces, then we will have met the target.

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