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Sustainable Urban Drainage Designing Approach for São Paulo and Humid Sub-tropical Climates

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Green Technologies and Infrastructure to Enhance Urban Ecosystem Services (SSC 2018)

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Abstract

Urban sprawl in São Paulo Metropolitan Region (SPMR) turned hundreds of streams into covered channels in the upper Tietê River basin. Engineering practices of channeling and covering water bodies are still common in the RMSP. This research is integrated to the Jaguaré’s Watershed Restoration Pilot Program initiative in São Paulo. This work investigates the efficiency of Green Infrastructure Technologies (GIT), vegetated systems that recover natural functions in impaired watersheds, for reducing storm water diffuse contamination. Sustainable Urban Drainage systems (SUDs) were projected as a source control of runoff during the rainstorms. The main question assessed in this paper was whether US unified approach criteria, generally used as best management practices (BMPs) planning guideline in temperate regions, were able to meet SPMR water quality targets given its different rainfall distribution, rainfall-intensity patterns and storm antecedent dry periods (ADPs), which affected to runoff Event Mean Concentrations (EMCs). This question was assessed through estimating bio-retention removal efficiencies in rainstorms in SPMR after substantially different precedent dry periods (ADP). Water Quality Volume (WQV) was established according to 90% sediment reduction, and the ability of the system to retain the First-flush volume was simulated using the EPA-XPSWMM software.

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Acknowledgments

This investigation was financially supported by Fundaçao de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP). This work would not have been possible without the help from the scientific community of Cornell University (CU) and the University of São Paulo (USP) that collaborated in the Jaguaré’s Watershed Restoration Program. Special gratitude is given to Dr. Thomas Whitlow, Dr. Douglas Haith and Dr. Todd Walters from CU, finally, to the Fundaçao Centro Tecnológico de Hidráulica (FCTH) for sharing their project data.

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  1. Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Design, University of São Paulo, Rua do Lago 876, São Paulo, SP, 05508-080, Brazil

    Carme Machí Castañer & Paulo Renato Mesquita Pellegrino

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Castañer, C.M., Mesquita Pellegrino, P.R. (2020). Sustainable Urban Drainage Designing Approach for São Paulo and Humid Sub-tropical Climates. In: Vasenev, V., Dovletyarova, E., Cheng, Z., Valentini, R., Calfapietra, C. (eds) Green Technologies and Infrastructure to Enhance Urban Ecosystem Services. SSC 2018. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16091-3_18

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