This project quantified the water quality of stormwater runoff from various surface types and used this information to design cost efficient Best Management Practices (BMPs) with high contaminant removal rates. On the WPI campus, the grass areas, access roads, and walkways had higher concentrations of contaminants than parking lots, main roads, and roofs. By targeting these surfaces, BMPs were designed with a contaminant removal rate of approximately 50% of a full downstream design but at 33% of the cost.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Acaba, Lucas Alexander
• Stanway, Kimberly Yvonne
• O'Leary, Keeghan M
• Adams, Virginia Leigh
• Balcewicz, Stephen A

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-032019-214534

Advisor

• Walker, Harold W.
• Mathisen, Paul P.

Year

• 2019

Sponsor

• Nitsch Engineering

Date created

• 2019-03-20

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Civil Engineering
• Environmental Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved

Last modified

• 2022-04-06