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Stormwater Harvesting and Reuse

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Glossary

Average recurrence interval (ARI) or return period:

The size of flood that on average occurs once every return period in years (or ARI).

Best management practice (BMP):

The best practicable method of achieving water quality management objectives, similar to treatment measure.

Design flow:

Similar to treatable flow rate.

Event mean concentration (EMC):

The event mean concentration (EMC) is derived from a number of rainfall events. For each rainfall event, the average pollutant concentration is determined based on measurement of pollutant concentration over the rainfall event. The mean of all these event-based average pollutant concentration values is the event mean concentration or EMC.

High rate treatment:

Treating stormwater at a high discharge rate.

Inline system:

A treatment system that is part of the main drainage system and treats all flows passing through it.

Major drainage flow paths:

Also known as overland flow paths that drain water from the catchment to formalized...

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  1. University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    G. Singh, M. A. H. Johir, J. Kandasamy, S. Vigneswaran & B. Kus

  2. CRC Care, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

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Singh, G., Johir, M.A.H., Kandasamy, J., Vigneswaran, S., Kus, B., Naidu, R. (2012). Stormwater Harvesting and Reuse. In: Zhang, H.X. (eds) Water Sustainability. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2466-1_266

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