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    1. Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) are a natural approach to managing drainage in developed areas that slows and treats stormwater runoff. 2. SUDS use techniques like permeable paving, wetlands, and ponds to attenuate flows, promote infiltration, and allow natural processes to remove pollutants from runoff. 3. Properly designed and maintained SUDS systems can help address issues like flooding, water pollution, and lack of amenity and habitat caused by conventional drainage approaches.

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    1. Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) are a natural approach to managing drainage in developed areas that slows and treats stormwater runoff. 2. SUDS use techniques like permeable paving, wetlands, and ponds to attenuate flows, promote infiltration, and allow natural processes to remove pollutants from runoff. 3. Properly designed and maintained SUDS systems can help address issues like flooding, water pollution, and lack of amenity and habitat caused by conventional drainage approaches.

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    Treatment Train

    1.

    Good Housekeeping: best practice to eliminate, or minimise, pollutants being generated and allowed into the environment.

    Source Controls: methods of dealing with runoff at source, e.g. permeable paving, filter strips, or roadside filter trenches.

    Site Controls: local controls that deal with generally smaller catchment areas, e.g. detention basins.

    Regional Controls farger components that might typically deal with larger catchments and upstream site controls, e.g. stormwater
    wetlands and retention ponds
    Presentation Outlines

    1. Introduction
    2. SUDS
    3. Water cycle
    4. Environmental effects of urban
    drainage
    5. SUDs Triangle
    6. Source control & Prevention
    7. Conclusions

    2
    Sustainable Drainage
    A concept that focuses on the environment and people.

    • Considers:

    1. Quantity of runoff

    2. Quality of runoff

    3. Amenity value of surface water

    • Existing urban drainage systems are:

    1. Unsustainable in the long-term

    2. Damaging to the environment

    Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) are a natural approach to managing drainage in and around properties an
    other developments. SUDS work by slowing and holding back the water that runs off from a site, allowing natural
    processes to break down pollutants.
    1. SUDS
    • Attenuate flow
    • Promote infiltration & groundwater recharge
    Why are SUDS needed?
    • 11% of Scottish river length is classified as
    polluted due to contamination from urban drainage

    SUDS aim to protect watercourses from point/diffuse


    pollution by acting as sinks for contaminants
    Why are SUDS needed?
    Amenity
    • A "loaded term when used in relation to SUDS-environmental/community issues

    Covers:

    Aesthetic & Ecological quality of the landscape

    Land-use

    Wildlife habitats

    Land-values

    Recreation opportunities Educational opportunities

    Water-resources

    Other factors:

    Opportunity costs

    Perceptions of risk Construction impact


    The Environmental impact of urban drainage

    1.Water quality 3.Water resources

    2. Flooding

    4.Habitat

    Flooding may occur for a number of reasons, including


    inadequately designed surface water drainage
    SUDS 'Triangle'

    Depends upon following factors.

    1.Water quantity

    2.Water quality

    3.Amneity, Biodiversity
    Present Legal Status

    WFD-Water Framework Directive (2000)

    Prevent deterioration in water status

    • Restoration of surface waters to good ecological and chemical status by 2015

    Reduction of pollution from priority substances

    • Contributing to mitigating the effects of floods and droughts • Preventing/limiting pollution input into groundwater

    • CAR - The Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations (2005)

    Surface water-runoff in areas constructed, or construction sites operated, after 1st April 2006 must now be drained by a Sustainable Urban
    Drainage System

    Exceptions - Single dwellings or if the discharge is to coastal water


    Conventional Drainage
    SUDS Drainage: The 'Treatment' approach

    • Connect SUDS together

    • Individual function of local SUDS techniques beneficial - but design should be led by a holistic vision & approach

    Combined integrated function - mimics the waterflows in the natural hydrological cycle:

    • Surface Flow

    • Infiltration

    • Storage in water-bodies

    Interflow

    Evapotranspiration
    Tackling Contaminants

    The flood-reducing benefits of SUDS are obvious...

    • Store water at various points in the catchment and allow water to be re-used, infiltrated, released
    slowly and/or evaporated.

    • These processes also allow the trapping of potential contaminants (e.g. metals,
    PAHs/Hydrocarbons) within the treatment train.

    ⚫ Contaminants are typically adsorbed (physico-chemically bonded) to sediment particles that are
    entrained in flow.

    • As water speed is slowed down using SUDS, particles (and therefore contaminants) settle out.
    Contaminant Sources: Vehicles

    • 15-fold increase in the number of car and taxi miles covered over the last 50 years!
    Design-Site Constraints
    Physical site constraints can make construction difficult or impossible, and maintenance expensive if not addressed
    adequately. Factors to consider include:

    ⚫ topography-e.g. steep slopes

    ⚫ soils and geology. e.g. erosivity, porosity, depth to bedrock or instability

    ⚫ groundwater-e.g. geochemistry and water table depth

    space-limited open space, proximity to underground services. (e.g. gas, power)

    • Social constraints include issues of health and safety, aesthetics and impacts on recreational facilities. Factors to
    consider include

    • odour problems

    ⚫ visual impacts

    ⚫ noise

    physical injury resulting from unauthorised access to structures;

    ⚫ contamination - infection, poisoning or injury caused by trapped pollutants or algal blooms

    ⚫ vermin-e.g. mosquitoes, rats.


    Design - Maintenance Issues

    Not only can a poorly maintained SUDS technique function ineffectively, it can become a source of pollution or flood hazard itself.

    • When designing a SUDS measure, the following points should be considered:

    ⚫ ease of maintenance and operation - the selected treatment should be

    easy and safe to maintain and operate ⚫ extent of maintenance - ensure the maintenance requirements are within the operator's capability

    ⚫ access to the treatment site - consider the ease of site access, when reviewing the treatment's maintenance requirements

    ⚫ frequency of maintenance - ensure that resources are available to carry out maintenance at the required frequency

    ⚫ debris and pollutant clearing - during clearing, the treatment should not require direct human contact with debris and trapped pollutants
    (automated clearing options are preferred)

    disposal - consider the disposal requirements of any waste from the treatment process.
    Case Study: J4M8

    • SUDS development (c. 2000)

    • Previously agricultural land

    • Now a distribution hub based mid-way between Edinburgh and Glasgow


    J4M8 Oblique Aerial Photograph
    Some conclusions

    Take the wetlands to the people

    Community management makes SuDS


    sustainable

    SUDS-integral to solving many issues/agendas


    (inc diffuse pollution)

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