Faculty Mentor
Dr. George Fu
Location
Poster 145
Session Format
Poster Presentation
Academic Unit
Department of Civil Engineering
Keywords
Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing Student Research Symposium, Highway Stormwater Runoff
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Presentation Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Start Date
2022 12:00 AM
January 2022
Highway Stormwater Runoff On-Site Treatment using Bioslope with New Media of Mixture of Biochar and Topsoil
Poster 145
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The impervious surface created by highway in the state of Georgia and the United States collects and transports a large volume of stormwater into water bodies.
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United States highways and bridge system is one of the contributors for non-point source pollution stated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
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Highway stormwater runoff constitutes significant pollutants such as total suspended solids (TSS), “heavy metal”, nutrients, organic contaminants, oil and grease which harm and impact water quality and endangered aquatic species.
