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Front Envir Sci Eng    0, Vol. Issue () : 658-668    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-013-0546-8
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Sustainability of urban drainage management: a perspective on infrastructure resilience and thresholds
Xiong NING1, Yi LIU1(), Jining CHEN1, Xin DONG1, Wangfeng LI2, Bin LIANG3
1. School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; 2. Department of Ecology and Environment, Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning & Design Institute, Beijing 100083, China; 3. National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian 116023, China
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Abstract

Urban wastewater infrastructures have been threatened by natural and socioeconomic disturbances. This study investigates infrastructure resilience against the risks of long-term changes rather than natural disasters. Urban expansion that leads to an increased urban runoff and massive population movements that cause fluctuations in domestic emissions are considered in this study. Pollution permits for water bodies are adopted as constraints on wastewater infrastructures. A land use-based accounting method, combined with a grid-based database, is developed to map domestic discharge and urban runoff to service areas of wastewater treatment plants. The results of a case study on downtown Sanya, the most famous seashore tourist attraction in China, show that the average resilient values of three sub-catchment areas in 2010 were -0.57, 0.10 and 0.27, respectively, a significant spatial variation. The infrastructure in the Sanya River sub-region is the least flexible, and is more likely to fail due to unstable inflows. The resiliencies will increase to 0.59, 1.01 and 0.54, respectively, in 2020, a considerable improvement in robustness. The study suggests that infrastructure resilience needs to be taken into further consideration for urban planning and the related realm of urban governance to foster more robust wastewater management under various risks.

Keywords wastewater infrastructure      land use      environmental carrying capacity      fluctuating population      urban runoff     
Corresponding Author(s): LIU Yi,Email:yi.liu@tsinghua.edu.cn   
Issue Date: 01 October 2013
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Xiong NING,Yi LIU,Jining CHEN, et al. Sustainability of urban drainage management: a perspective on infrastructure resilience and thresholds[J]. Front Envir Sci Eng, 0, (): 658-668.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/fese/EN/Y0/V/I/658
Fig.1  Analytical framework of the studies of urban wastewater infrastructure resilience
Fig.2  Conceptualization of the resilience of urban wastewater infrastructures
Fig.3  Mapping watershed regions and infrastructure service areas in 2020
monthDPin/DRin
20102020
Sanya RiverSanya BayEast SeaSanya RiverSanya BayEast Sea
January26.4/1.211.9/0.45.3/0.539.1/5.727.9/1.214.5/2.3
February25.0/14.911.5/4.75.1/5.937.9/11.126.9/2.414.1/4.4
March1.9/0.58.0/0.22.2/0.214.5/19.119.6/4.17.5/7.6
April1.7/53.67.0/17.01.9/21.113.7/40.118.6/8.77.1/15.9
May1.5/10.76.2/3.41.7/4.211.5/116.715.5/25.25.9/46.3
June1.4/22.65.8/7.21.6/8.910.2/164.613.8/35.65.3/65.3
July1.5/92.06.3/29.21.7/36.311.7/163.115.9/35.26.1/64.8
August1.6/227.56.8/72.21.8/89.712.9/199.717.5/43.16.7/79.3
September1.4/147.85.9/46.91.6/58.310.4/244.814.1/52.95.4/97.2
October1.5/375.66.2/119.31.7/148.111.9/205.116.2/44.36.2/81.4
November27.7/18.810.4/6.05.1/7.436.3/48.924.1/10.613.0/19.4
December29.7/11.111.9/3.55.6/4.439.4/11.328.4/2.414.7/4.5
average10.1/82.18.2/26.12.9/32.420.7/102.819.9/22.28.9/40.8
Oin97.641.824.5135.820.341.3
Tab.1  Quantification of the inflow in the three sub-regions (/, units: thousand m·d)
Fig.4  Environmental constraints of the three sub-regions: (a) COD discharged to Sanya River sub-region in 2010; (b) COD discharged to Sanya River sub-region in 2020; (c) NH-N discharged to Sanya River sub-region in 2010; (d) NH-N discharged to Sanya River sub-region in 2020; (e) SS discharged to Sanya Bay sub-region in 2010; (f) SS discharged to Sanya Bay sub-region in 2020; (g) SS discharged to East Sea sub-region in 2010; (h) SS discharged to East Sea sub-region in 2020
month20102020
Sanya RiverSanya BayEast SeaSanya RiverSanya BayEast Sea
January-- 0.88- 0.300.10- 0.210.880.43
February- 0.81- 0.050.13- 0.250.860.43
March- 0.94- 0.430.10- 0.320.900.45
April- 0.900.090.21- 0.300.910.46
May- 0.82- 0.350.12- 0.081.040.56
June- 0.59- 0.160.150.481.090.61
July- 0.430.220.301.001.110.62
August- 0.280.720.581.441.160.66
September0.160.410.412.491.200.70
October0.061.260.902.341.160.67
November- 0.55- 0.060.140.610.930.48
December- 0.81- 0.130.13- 0.060.890.44
average- 0.570.100.270.591.010.54
Tab.2  Value of the theoretical resilience of urban wastewater infrastructures in Sanya
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