Journal article
Principles for urban stormwater management to protect stream ecosystems
CJ Walsh, DB Booth, MJ Burns, TD Fletcher, RL Hale, LN Hoang, G Livingston, MA Rippy, AH Roy, M Scoggins, A Wallace
Freshwater Science | Published : 2016
DOI: 10.1086/685284
Abstract
Urban stormwater runoff is a critical source of degradation to stream ecosystems globally. Despite broad appreciation by stream ecologists of negative effects of stormwater runoff, stormwater management objectives still typically center on flood and pollution mitigation without an explicit focus on altered hydrology. Resulting management approaches are unlikely to protect the ecological structure and function of streams adequately. We present critical elements of stormwater management necessary for protecting stream ecosystems through 5 principles intended to be broadly applicable to all urban landscapes that drain to a receiving stream: 1) the ecosystems to be protected and a target ecologi..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This paper arose from a discussion session at the 3rd Symposium on Urbanization and Stream Ecology in Portland, Oregon, in May 2014, which was funded in part by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) award DEB 1427007. The authors acknowledge financial support from the NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education (OISE-1243543, MAR); NSF grant EPSCoR IIA 1208732 (RLH); the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Grant EP/K013661/1 (LNH); Melbourne Water, through the Melbourne Waterway Research Practice Partnership (CJW, MJB, TDF); and Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT10010044, TDF). Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the US Government.