Rainwater storage in urban environments using green roofs
| Autor: | Leonardo José López Machado, Vanessa Viviana Montesinos Machado, Nelson Andrés López Machado, María Gabriela Soria Pugo, Ronnie Xavier Lizano Acevedo, Christian Gonzalo Domínguez Gonzalez, Wilmer Barreto, Néstor Méndez |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Green roofs
Hydrograph runoff Urban area routing hydrographs hydrographs General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Rainwater harvesting lcsh:Agriculture Routing (hydrology) lcsh:Agriculture (General) lcsh:Science (General) General Environmental Science Hydrology geography geography.geographical_feature_category Flood myth Water storage peak flow lcsh:S lcsh:S1-972 Current (stream) rainwater storage General Earth and Planetary Sciences Environmental science General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Surface runoff lcsh:Q1-390 |
| Zdroj: | La Granja: Revista de Ciencias de la Vida, Vol 32, Iss 2 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 1390-8596 1390-3799 |
| Popis: | This article discusses the use of green roofs as rainfall water storage in its soil matrix. The methodology is analytical based on mathematical models, where runoff produced in an urban area is compared with current conditions of ordinary roofs with ceramic or bituminous materials as the original scenario, against another where green roofs are used. The study area is located in the Palavecino municipality of Lara state in Venezuela, in the flood zone of Quebrada Tabure. In this research, a quantitative comparison of the direct runoff hydrographs of the proposed scenarios was used, obtaining as a main result the reduction of runoff between 60% and 80% according to the period of return. An interesting point of this research was the incorporation of the routing of hydrographs on the roofs, reducing even more the peak flow over 90%, and delaying the peak time of the generated hydrographs between 10 and 12 minutes while the total duration of the hydrographs increase more than three times. |
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