Analysis of rainfall runoff characteristics from a subtropical urban lawn catchment in South-east China

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Analysis of rainfall runoff characteristics from a subtropical urban lawn catchment in South-east China

Jinliang HUANG¹(

), Zhenshun TU³, Pengfei DU², Qingsheng LI¹, Jie LIN¹

1. Environmental Science Research Center, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China; 2. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; 3. Fujian Institute of Oceanography, Xiamen 361012, China

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Abstract

Characteristics of rainfall runoff from a 3.26?hm² urban catchment with predominant land-use as lawn in Xiamen City, South-east China were investigated and analyzed. Water quality and quantity measurements of rainfall runoff were conducted for ten rainfall events over the period March, 2008 to April, 2009. The results indicated that chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total phosphorus (TP) were the major pollutants with event mean concentrations of 56.09 and 0.44 mg·L^-1. From hydrograph and pollutograph analysis of two typical rainfall events, it was clear that the peak rainfall preceded the peak flowrate by about 15–20 min. Meanwhile, concentrations of major pollutants showed multiple peaks and these peaks usually preceded peak flowrate. There were no distinctive first-flush effects except for the rainfall events with the longest rainfall duration and largest runoff volume, which was verified by the fact that the first 30% runoff volume (FF30) carried 39.36% of the total suspended solids (TSS) load, 35.17% of the COD load, 28.13% of the TP load and 39.03% of the nitrate nitrogen load. Multivariate regression analysis further demonstrated that the total runoff volume had a positive correlation with the FF30 of TSS and COD.

Keywords rainfall runoff first flush pollution characteristics urban lawn catchment

Corresponding Author(s): HUANG Jinliang,Email:jlhuang@xmu.edu.cn

Issue Date: 01 August 2012

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Jinliang HUANG,Zhenshun TU,Pengfei DU, et al. Analysis of rainfall runoff characteristics from a subtropical urban lawn catchment in South-east China[J]. Front Envir Sci Eng, 0, (): 531-539.

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Fig.1 Location of the study catchment

Tab.1 General description of the rainfall events monitored

Fig.2 Definition of the first flush M(V) curve. Y the mass fraction, represents the fraction of the total pollutant mass at any time during the storm event; X the volume fraction, represents the fraction of the total runoff volume that has occurred by time for an event

Tab.2 Statistical summary of rainfall runoff quality in the study catchment

Fig.3 Pollutographs for two typical rainfall events (a is May 5, 2008; b is for May 9, 2009) in the study catchment

Fig.4 M(V) curves for TSS, COD, TP and NO-N

Tab.3 Statistical summary of FF30 values regarding TSS, COD, TP and NO-N

Tab.4 Correlation coefficients between FF30 of TSS and rainfall event characteristics

Tab.5 Correlation coefficients between FF30 of COD and rainfall events characteristics

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