TY - GEN
T1 - Hydraulic and Hydrological Assessment for an Artificial Wetland - Storage Tank System Built for Rainwater Harvesting at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Campus in Bogotá, Colombia
AU - Brand, Minakshi
AU - Torres, Camilo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Recently, rainwater has been used to meet the demand for uses other than human consumption. The artificial wetland - storage tank system built at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ) was built as an alternative source of irrigation for the local area. The system is made up of three components: a catchment system from the drainage pipelines coming from the parking structure, a sub-surface artificial wetland used for the water treatment, and a storage and distribution system for irrigation. A hydraulic and hydrological assessment for the system, a water balance for the system's tributary areas, and a water demand analysis for the vegetative species at PUJ were carried-out to evaluate the system's performance. The results from this assessment demonstrated the presence of short-circuiting patterns that affected the wetland hydraulic performance. Furthermore, there were considerable differences between the inflow and the outflow, which suggests a non-optimal water transport inside of the wetland.
AB - Recently, rainwater has been used to meet the demand for uses other than human consumption. The artificial wetland - storage tank system built at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ) was built as an alternative source of irrigation for the local area. The system is made up of three components: a catchment system from the drainage pipelines coming from the parking structure, a sub-surface artificial wetland used for the water treatment, and a storage and distribution system for irrigation. A hydraulic and hydrological assessment for the system, a water balance for the system's tributary areas, and a water demand analysis for the vegetative species at PUJ were carried-out to evaluate the system's performance. The results from this assessment demonstrated the presence of short-circuiting patterns that affected the wetland hydraulic performance. Furthermore, there were considerable differences between the inflow and the outflow, which suggests a non-optimal water transport inside of the wetland.
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U2 - 10.1061/9780784479889.036
DO - 10.1061/9780784479889.036
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84976521081
T3 - World Environmental And Water Resources Congress 2016: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater and Urban Watershed Symposium - Papers from Sessions of the Proceedings of the 2016 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress
SP - 339
EP - 350
BT - World Environmental And Water Resources Congress 2016
A2 - Reinhart, Debra
A2 - Pathak, Chandra S.
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
T2 - 16th World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2016: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater and Urban Watershed Symposium
Y2 - 22 May 2016 through 26 May 2016
ER -