Abstract
This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the low impact development (LID) practices on sustainable urban flood storm water management. We applied three LID techniques, i.e. green roof, permeable pavements and bioretention cells, on a highly urbanized watershed in Istanbul, Turkey. The EPA-SWMM was used as a hydrologic-hydraulic model and the model calibration was performed by the well-known Parameter ESTimation (PEST) tool. The rainfall-runoff events occurred between 2012 and 2020. A sensitivity analysis on the parameter selection was applied to reduce the computational cost. The Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency coefficient (NSE) was used as the objective function and it was calculated as 0.809 in the model calibration. The simulations were conducted for six different return periods of a storm event, i.e. 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years, in which the synthetic storm event hyetographs were produced by means of the alternating block method. The results revealed that the combination of green roof and permeable pavements have the major impact on both the peak flood reduction and runoff volume reduction compared to the single LIDs. The maximum runoff reduction percentage was obtained as 56.02% for a 10 years return period of a storm event in the combination scenario.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2194-2213 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Water Science and Technology |
Volume | 84 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021 The Authors
Funding
The authors would like to express their gratitude to the Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration (ISKI), Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Disaster Coordination Center (AKOM) and Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM) for their support.
Funders | Funder number |
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AKOM | |
ISKI | |
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Disaster Coordination Center | |
Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration | |
MGM | |
Turkish State Meteorological Service |
Keywords
- Automatic calibration
- Low impact development
- PEST
- SWMM
- Sensitivity analysis
- Urban floods