Stormwater Treatment
by Gary Minton, Ph.D., P.E.

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THE BOOK FOR THE PRACTICING ENGINEER AND SCIENTIST. First published in 2002, the only true textbook, it explains how stormwater treatment systems "work": the various physical, biological, and chemical processes that remove pollutants. Understanding these processes leads to more rationale and cost-effective decisions regarding: design criteria and their relationship to performance and performance goals, interpretation of performance claims, long-term performance, maintenance, and laboratory and field study procedures. Included are sizing procedures, key design elements, and maintenance practices to maximize performance and reliability. See the Table of Contents[TOC] Or excerpts from each chapter[Chapter Summary]

Why buy this book? This is not an academic book. It is written for the practicing professional. It is the only publication that fully explains pollutant removal processes(Unit Processes), their relationship to key design criteria, and modification of current design criteria to create more effective and most importantly more cost-effective treatment systems. The majority of our design criteria and sizing procedures were developed one to two decades ago, and have not generally kept pace with our rapidly increasing understanding of the relationship of design criteria to performance. The content of this book provides the foundation to develop more appropriate design criteria.

Now in its second edition the book currently has owners in 45 U.S. states, 7 provinces of Canada, and 17 countries. It has been widely praised by many owners [Testimonials], in particular that the book is comprehensive and very readable for both engineers and scientists. It has been purchased by professionals with consulting firms, manufacturers of stormwater products, and at all levels of government from cities and towns to federal and international agencies. The subject is thoroughly covered in over 300 pages of text, and more than 150 graphics, 150 tables, and 2000 references.

Biological, chemical, and engineering principles underlay our stormwater treatment technologies, such as wet ponds, swales, swirl settlers, bioretention, porous pavements, and filters.These principles derive from our knowledge and experience in not only stormwater treatment but also water and wastewater treatment engineering, chemical engineering, agricultural engineering, aquatic chemistry, soil science, and the biological sciences. The book presents these principles, exploring their relationship to design criteria, performance, and performance variability. The book is for engineers, scientists, and planners in consulting firms and government agencies who are looking for a thorough understanding of the mechanisms of pollutant removal, and the justification or lack of for particular design criteria. The author suggests that many current design criteria require reconsideration and modification.

2ND EDITION CHANGES

• About 675 new references
• About a dozen new tables and figures
• Update of proprietary treatment systems (Chapters 7, 10, 11, 12)
• Sizing of extended detention basins - based on the design criterion of drawdown rate rather than drawdown time, with supporting field data (Chapter 7).
• Thermal and saline stratification - causes and prevention or minimization by design, equations to estimate occurrence and persistence (Chapter 5).
• Synthesis of experience on the thermal effects of wet and extended detention, ponds, vaults, and wetlands; concept that adverse thermal effects does not always occur but is affected by the type of flow (e.g. base) into the basin and the design; design concepts to minimize occurrence (Chapter 5).
• Updated discussion of the characteristics and chemistry of snowmelt (Chapter 2).
• Limitations, performance, and design criteria for stormwater treatment in cold (winter icing) regions (Chapters 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, and 13).
• Limitations, performance, and design criteria for treatment in semi-arid regions (Chapters 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, and 13).
• Complete revision on the use of kinetic rate equations to size treatment systems (Chapter 6).
• Summation of data on the sorption capacity of sorptive filter media (Chapter 11).
• Updated discussion of infiltration systems: performance, long-term performance, maintenance, and media specifications, and use in cold and semi-arid regions (Chapter 12).
• Updated discussion of porous pavement, including OGFC (Chapter 12.)
• Updated discussion of wet ponds: performance, long-term performance, maintenance, and media specifications, and use in cold and semi-arid regions (Chapter 12).
• Updated discussion of bioretention, limitations on nitrogen removal (Chapter 12).
• Updated discussion of constructed wetlands: performance, long-term performance, maintenance, and media specifications, and use in cold and semi-arid regions (Chapter 12).

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