Snow pollution management in urban areas: an idea whose time has come?
2021 (English)In: Urban Water Journal, ISSN 1573-062X, E-ISSN 1744-9006, Vol. 18, no 10, p. 840-849Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Needs for extending the principles of a sustainable urban drainage approach to the winter season with snow and pollutant accumulations have been so far unanswered. One of the first steps to remedy this situation is to make available a prototype snow management tool (PSMT) described herein. It is a simple empirical spreadsheet tool, as yet untested, which uses generally available input data to simulate accumulation of snow (as snow water equivalent) and pollutants in an urban catchment, intermittent snowmelt episodes, and snow management options including in situ melting, removal from the catchment, treatment of snowmelt by settling, and snow disposal in the receiving waters. The tool output comprises snow and the selected pollutant mass balances, and pollutant concentrations in snowmelt from individual snow deposits. Such data provide decision support for choosing the methods of disposal for individual snow deposits. The testing and refinement of the tool is planned.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2021. Vol. 18, no 10, p. 840-849
Keywords [en]
mass balances of snow and pollutants in catchments, snow disposal, snow management spreadsheet tool, Urban snow management
National Category
Water Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-55267DOI: 10.1080/1573062X.2021.1941138Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85108618944OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-55267DiVA, id: diva2:1578295
Note
Funding details: 2016–05176; Funding details: Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas; Funding details: National Cancer Center, NCC, 2015-00120; Funding text 1: This project was conducted within the research cluster Stormwater&Sewers. The financial support for this work was provided by the Swedish Research Council Formas, Ports of Stockholm and NCC through the project Sustainable urban snow handling - assessing and managing environmental risks (Grant no 2015-00120) and DRIZZLE Centre for Stormwater Management, funded by Vinnova – Sweden’s Innovation Agency (Grant no. 2016–05176). The authors are grateful to the project partners and the reference group on the Sustainable urban snow handling project, with representatives from Ports of Stockholm, NCC, County Administrative Board of Stockholm, City of Stockholm Environmental Department, and the Road Departments at Luleå and Örnsköldsvik municipalities, for fruitful discussions during the development of the PSMT.
2021-07-062021-07-062023-01-03Bibliographically approved