123 results about "Storm water runoff" patented technology

A system and method for determining the pervious and impervious area within parcels associated with a municipality for purposes of generating bills for storm water runoff to parcel owners. Aerial imagery, collected from an aircraft and / or satellite, of the relevant municipality, or portion thereof, is collected, processed, and analyzed to determine the amount of water impervious area associated with each relevant parcel within the municipality. This information for each parcel may then be used to determine an appropriate amount of money to be charged to the owner of each respective parcel. The amount of impervious area per parcel is calculated based on parcel boundary information specific to the municipality that may contain spatial domain errors.

The present invention discloses a low elevation greenbelt rainwater regulation scheduling pool and a distributed rainwater regulation scheduling pool system. The distributed rainwater regulation scheduling pool system comprises a low elevation greenbelt (1), a rainwater overflow well (2) and a rainwater regulation scheduling pool (7), and water storage, drainage and supply which are integrated with a rainwater pipe network or a sewage pipe network are achieved. Compared with the prior art, rainfall runoff and flood detention can be effectively adjusted, runoff pollution can be reduced, and purification, storage and utilization functions of rainwater are fulfilled; and the system is tightly combined with the rainwater and sewage pipe networks of a city, the problems of urban inland inundation caused by rainstorm, the runoff pollution caused by rain wash, and rainwater resource utilization are solved, water storage is scheduled according to drainage ability of drainage pipelines, an important means is provided for sponge urban construction, and the system has outstanding social, environmental and economic benefits.

A hydrodynamic device for removing sediment and other materials from storm water runoff is provided. An exemplary embodiment of this device includes: a first substantially cylindrical chamber a second substantially cylindrical chamber concentrically disposed within the upper portion of the first chamber, a first baffle concentrically disposed within the second chamber, and a second baffle disposed within the lower portion of the first chamber. A water inlet is attached to or formed integrally with the second chamber; a water outlet is attached to or formed integrally with the first chamber; and an optional bypass outlet is attached to or formed integrally with the first chamber.

The invention discloses an urban road rainfall runoff ecological coprocessing device and a method. The device comprises an urban road rainfall runoff ecological coprocessing box and a bioretention purification unit, wherein an overflow weir board, a second screen mesh partition and a perforation partition are arranged in the urban road rainfall runoff ecological coprocessing box at intervals sequentially; the interior of a box body is divided into an overflow chamber, a water inlet chamber, a water distribution chamber and a bioretention purification chamber that are sequentially arranged by the overflow weir board, the second screen mesh partition and the perforation partition; and the bioretention purification unit is arranged in the bioretention purification chamber, and comprises a gravel layer, a sand filter layer, a planting soil layer and plants. The device and the method can sequentially remove floating matters, particles and soluble pollutants that are in different particle sizes in rainfall runoff, achieve hierarchical control of the pollutants in the rainfall runoff, can store a part of rainfall runoff to meet growth requirements of the plants in the bioretention unit, achieve a water conservation effect, and can also achieve multi-purpose control of water quality and water quantity of the urban road rainfall runoff.

A chamber having an inlet for receiving polluted storm-water runoff and an outlet for the storm water to flow out. Within the chamber are one or more baffles forming gaps and having apertures. The gaps define a longer water flow route through the chamber and the apertures disperse the storm water within the chamber. This increases storm-water residence time which encourages settling of particulate matter such as sand and grit. In alternative embodiments, there are included a screen, a collection reservoir, and / or a pivotal filter for further dispersing, detaining, and / or filtering the storm water.

A self-contained wetlands treatment system to remove pollutants from water and treat stormwater runoff or other grey water. This is system and method wherein the water is passed through a wetland filtering and treatment system. This invention removes solids, metals (dissolved / particulate), nutrients (dissolved / particulate), oils, and bacterial contaminants from the water. The system and system housing can be fabricated, built, and assembled in a broad range of sizes and materials to accommodate and treat a broad range of influent flow rates.

An apparatus for construction site erosion control for temporarily enclosing the curb inlet of a storm drainage system during construction of a road system in commercial and residential developments is adapted to be placed adjacent a curb inlet of a storm drain in order to enable storm water runoff to drain into the inlet while preventing silt and debris from being carried into and collected therein. The apparatus includes a grate constructed to seat upon an open end of a storm drain inlet, means for filtering debris from storm water runoff passing through the means and through the grate, into the storm drain inlet; and means for securing the grate to a storm drain protection bar.

An ecological method using artifical marshland system for controlling N-P pollution includes such steps as sequentially flowing the rain or sewage in sand deposition pool, in stage-one free-surface artificial marshland (staying for more than 1.5 hr), in zeolite undercurrent marshland containing zeolite and cinder (staying for more than 1 hr), and in stage-two free-surface artificial marshland (staying for more than 8 hr). Its advantage is high effect.

The invention provides a novel vegetation shallow trench and a method for processing runoff rainwater by using the novel vegetation shallow trench. The novel vegetation shallow trench comprises a vegetation layer and a shallow trench, wherein the shallow trench comprises a shallow trench bottom (1) and a slope (2), and an infiltration / drainage pipe (3) is buried in the shallow trench bottom (1). When surface runoff rainwater (9) enters the shallow trench and flows along the slope, the runoff can be purified through retention, filtering of vegetation (7), absorption and permeation, a part of runoff rainwater accumulated at the shallow trench bottom (1) enters a filter material layer surrounding the infiltration / drainage pipe (3) through infiltration effect, and the filtered runoff rainwater is drained into a receiving water body or other processing facilities through the infiltration / drainage pipe (3). Since the infiltration / drainage pipe (3) is designed at the shallow trench bottom, the novel vegetation shallow trench is remarkably improved in transmission, filtering and infiltration capabilities, has the advantages of small floor space, compact structure and strong contaminant blockage capability, and thus is applicable to a rainwater runoff pollution control system for high-density areas of a city.

A chamber has an inlet for receiving polluted storm-water runoff and an outlet for the storm water to flow out. Within the chamber is a collection reservoir having an adjustable weir with a skimming edge for skimming off floating matter such as motor oil, other hydrocarbons, and detergents. In alternative embodiments, there are included a screen, one or more baffles, and / or a pivotal filter for further dispersing, detaining, and / or filtering the storm water.

A method for monitoring, controlling, and recording performance of a storm water runoff network includes receiving, by a storm water management component, environmental data associated with a storage node. The method includes analyzing, by the storm water management component, the received environmental data. The method includes modifying, by the storm water management component, an operation of the storage node, responsive to the analysis. The method includes modifying, by the storm water management component, a state of a valve in the storage node, responsive to the analysis. The method includes modifying, by the storm water management component, a state of a pump in the storage node, responsive to the analysis. The method includes modifying, by the storm water management component, a state of a gate in the storage node, responsive to the analysis.

A separation tank having an inlet and an outlet and forming a low flow path and a high flow path, both conveying water from the inlet to the outlet. At normal, low flows, the water enters the inlet and passes through the low flow path having treatment chambers to remove, respectively, heavy materials and floatable materials. At high flows such as with heavy storm runoff, water exceeding a predetermined flow rate is conveyed from the low flow path into the high flow path where there are baffles to treat the water to remove both heavy materials and floatable materials. In optional embodiments, there is a filter / recharge chamber that may contain a filter and / or a groundwater conveyance system such that filtered or unfiltered water can be discharged from the low flow path through a groundwater conveyance system to groundwater, to the normal outlet, or both.

The invention discloses an ecological road engineering system, and belongs to the technical field of city road building. A carriageway and a non-motor way are each provided with a water-permeable bituminous pavement, namely a porous bituminous pavement, the porosity is higher than 20% after compaction is carried out, and drainage channels can be formed inside a bituminous mixture. Rainfall runoff on the pavements is collected into water storage devices embedded into a medium divider and a lateral divider and is gradually and slowly released to surrounding soil, and therefore the growth requirement of plants is met. By means of the ecological road engineering system, self-organization irrigation of the green belt plants is completed, the manual irrigation cost is reduced, and water resources are saved; soil irrigation is more thorough, a small amount of manual irrigation and a small amount of rainfall enable water to difficulty reach a soil layer with a certain depth, and therefore growth of tree root systems is not facilitated; meanwhile, a real-time monitoring system provides scientific data information for maintenance and effective detection of the ecological road engineering system; manual energy resources and power input are not needed in the complete system, the operation and maintenance cost is low, and the practical value is achieved; and through practices in one year, the system better runs, and the popularization value is achieved.

The invention relates to rainwater treatment and recycle, and provides a rainwater runoff strengthening treatment and recycling parking space and a sidewalk system. A waterproof layer, a pebble supporting layer, an adsorptive filler layer, a filter filler layer, a steel grating plate layer and a permeable layer are sequentially arranged in a pit with depth of 1.2 to 1.5 meters from bottom to top;the system also comprises a recycle water well which takes the waterproof layer as the well bottom, takes concrete as the well wall and penetrate other layers; and a water collecting pipe layer is horizontally arranged in the pebble supporting layer, and the water collecting pipe layer consists of water collecting pipes connected across and provided with holes, wherein one or more water collecting pipes are connected to the recycle water well through an opening on the wall of the recycle water well. The system has multiple functions of water penetration, filtration, adsorption, storage, rainwater recycle and the like, and can quickly and efficiently reduce urban rain flood; and specific rainwater treatment fillers can be selected according to the pollution characteristics of regional rainwater runoff, so that the blockage of the lower basic filler is avoided, the accommodating capacity of the system on pollutants is increased and the service life of the system is prolonged.

A chamber having an inlet for receiving polluted storm-water runoff and an outlet for the storm water to flow out. Within the chamber is a screen that is elevated for separating and suspending miscellaneous debris such as vegetative matter, paper, and plastic, and that extends substantially all the way across the chamber to laterally disperse the storm water in the chamber. In alternative embodiments, there are included one or more baffles, a collection reservoir, and / or a pivotal filter for further dispersing, detaining, and / or filtering the storm water.

A chamber having an inlet for receiving polluted storm-water runoff and an outlet for the storm water to flow out. Within the chamber is a pivotal filter that catches clay during typical storm flows and pivots out of the way during higher flows. In alternative embodiments, there are included a screen, one or more baffles, and / or a collection reservoir for further dispersing, detaining, and / or filtering the storm water.

The invention provides systems, associated component parts, and assemblies of the pre-filtration systems, that are useful for treating storm water entering underground storm water management systems. The invention further provides methods to pre-filter storm water prior to entering underground water management systems. The invention reduces pollutant loading in storm water runoff with minimal footprint, flexibility of use and ease of maintenance.

Vaults, boxes, systems, and methods of treatment systems to capture pollutants from storm water runoff and prevent the conveyance of these pollutants from entering a receiving water body or landscape area, which is designed to be a part of a local permanent storm water drainage infrastructure. A single treatment box, vault and system combines both drainage conveyance, multi-level treatment techniques, variable hydraulic capabilities, and easy and inexpensive methods for servicing the system. A flow spreader can split incoming water to pass into dual screen filtration systems. The system can include components selected from a shelf beneath the spreader, at least one baffle, skimmer, deflectors, media filtration and water pressure lines with spray heads for cleaning debris on a sloped floor.

The invention discloses an urban road storm runoff desanding device which is mainly used for removing sediment carried in urban road storm runoff. The device comprises four parts, namely a rainwater grate, an automatic mud locking device, a mud collecting well and an inclined plate outflow device, wherein the rainwater grate can utilize existing facilities locally and does not need to be manufactured additionally; the automatic mud locking device comprises a fixed hinged support and a lightweight floating plate; the mud collecting well is positioned at the bottom of the device and specially used for storing the collected sediment; and the inclined plate outflow device is an oblique water outlet channel which is oblique upward and can enhance the collection efficiency of the sediment. The device has the following advantages that: the application is convenient, the device can be directly arranged at the lower part of an existing rainwater port, the additional land occupation is not required and the status quo of a rainwater pipeline does not need to be changed; the collection efficiency of the sediment is high, thereby avoiding the loss of the sediment caused by water scouring and particularly improving the effect of removing the small granular sediment; and the sediment is convenient to clear and can be directly cleared along the way once through a fecal suction truck.

Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the computer implemented method evaluates the sustainability of land development plan. The computer implemented method applies sustainability data to the land planning and engineering design elements of a land development plan to generate sustainability measures. These sustainability measures may include environmental impacts such as carbon footprints, energy consumption, and increased storm water runoff. In addition, the computer implemented method estimates the costs involved in investing in sustainable land development and construction, provides a cost benefit analysis, compares the sustainability of numerous land development plans, and calculates the near and long term effects of sustainable land development on a land site. This real time analysis will allow developers, municipalities, and residents to quantify land planning decisions without expending significant time and money in a cumbersome land planning process.

An anaerobic to aerobic sequence enhances biological degradation of many organic pollutants. Exemplary embodiments provide systems and methods for effective treatment of storm-water runoff pollutants such as hydrocarbons, nitrates, phosphorus, and heavy metals using sediment filtration and adsorption, and biochemical processes under bi-phasic bioretention conditions. By integrating these pollution cleanup pro-usages into a single unit, this apparatus optimizes retention time of the runoff through the system and maximizes removal rates of runoff pollutants, resulting in more reliable and efficient treatment mechanism than previous systems.

An apparatus and method for use in conjunction with grassy swales to collect and filter or otherwise treat dirty or polluted storm water runoff or other fluid is disclosed. The swale overflow screen device is used in connection with a catch basin. One or more swale overflow screen devices are installed within a bioretention swale, such that during periods of routine flow, at least a portion of storm water runoff or other passing fluids can enter the swale overflow screen device, through the catch basin and be released to a drainage system.

The present invention is a drywell retrofit sump insert designed to be placed inside an existing drywell or other similar Underground Injection Control (UIC). The drywell insert helps protect groundwater by removing pollutants from raw storm water runoff that enters the drywell before the drywell infiltrates the storm water into the ground. Once the raw storm water enters the drywell retrofit sump insert, sand, silt, grit, and other high-density pollutants settle out of the storm water stream and accumulate in the bottom of the drywell retrofit sump insert. Oil, grease, and other low-density pollutants float on top of the standing water inside the drywell retrofit sump insert and are kept inside by the oil baffles on the outlet holes. The drywell retrofit sump insert is comprised of a rigid cylinder with an integral flanged bottom attached by means of a watertight joint.

A wastewater source control system for use with a sewer service line conducting a flow of wastewater from a building to a sewer main. A flow control device is installed in the sewer service line with an upstream detention tank to detain building wastewater upstream from its point of discharge into a sewer main during certain heavy stormwater runoff periods.

The invention relates to an automatic rainwater runoff collector, and belongs to the technical field of rainwater collection and detection. The automatic rainwater runoff collector mainly comprises a rainwater sensor, an electric circuit control module, an electromagnetic valve, a liquid level floating ball switch, an electromagnetic valve circuit control module, an outdoor rainwater sampler, an outdoor water conveying pipeline, an indoor water collector, an indoor sampling bottle, an air buffer bottle, a sampling table, a vacuum pump, and a control power supply. According to the present invention, the system equipment is automatically opened and closed, the automation degree is high, the operation is simple, and the one-person control replaces the multi-person operation.

Vaults, boxes, systems, and methods of treatment systems to capture pollutants from storm water runoff and prevent the conveyance of these pollutants from entering a receiving water body or landscape area, which is designed to be a part of a local permanent storm water drainage infrastructure. A single treatment box, vault and system combines both drainage conveyance, multi-level treatment techniques, variable hydraulic capabilities, and easy and inexpensive methods for servicing the system. A flow spreader having a triangular shape with straight sides, or concave sides or convex sides can split incoming water to pass into dual screen filtration systems. Additionally, an upwardly angled debris ramp above a downwardly angled screened defector can be located on both sides of the flow spreader to help direct debris and trash into dual screened boxes. The system can also include components selected from a shelf beneath the spreader, at least one baffle, skimmer, deflectors, media filtration and hydroslide water pressure lines with spray heads for cleaning debris on a sloped floor.