Effects of a Vegetated Stormwater-Detention Basin on Chemical
Quality and Temperature of Runoff from a Small Residential Development in
Monroe County, New York
by Donald A. Sherwood
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4099
ABSTRACT
The vegetated
stormwater-detention basin at a small residential development in Monroe
County, N.Y. has been shown to be effective in reducing loads of certain
chemical constituents to receiving waters. Loads of suspended solids,
nitrogen, and phosphorus have been reduced by an average of 14 to 62 percent.
The basin has little effect on the temperature of runoff between the inflow
and the outflow; water temperatures at the outflow during summer storms
averaged 0.5 degrees Celsius higher than those at the inflow.
Citation: Sherwood, D.A., 2001, Effects of a Vegetated
Stormwater-Detention Basin on Chemical Quality and Temperature of Runoff
from a Small Residential Development in Monroe County, New York:
U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4099, 11 p.
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