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Title Urban stormwater : best practice environmental management guidelines / prepared for the Stormwater Committee, with assistance from Environmental Protection Authority [and others].

Publication Info. Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 268 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note Title from PDF cover (viewed May 18, 2006).
Publication from: CSIRO website.
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Principles and Objectives; Chapter 3: Stormwater Management Planning; Chapter 4: Planning Controls; Chapter 5: Water Sensitive Urban Design; Chapter 6: Source Controls; Chapter 7: Structural Treatment Measures; Appendices; References.
Summary The intense concentration of human activity in urban areas leads to changes in both the quantity and quality of runoff that eventually reaches our streams, lakes, wetlands, estuaries and coasts. The increasing use of impervious surfaces designed to provide smooth and direct pathways for stormwater run-off, has led to greater runoff volumes and flow velocities in urban waterways. Unmanaged, these changes in the quantity and quality of stormwater can result in considerable damage to the environment. Improved environmental performance is needed to ensure that the environmental values and beneficia.
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Subject Urban runoff -- Australia -- Victoria -- Management.
Urban runoff.
Australia.
Victoria.
Management.
Urban runoff -- Environmental aspects -- Management.
Urban runoff -- Environmental aspects.
Water quality management -- Australia -- Victoria.
Water quality management.
Water -- Pollution -- Australia -- Victoria.
Water -- Pollution.
Sewage -- Environmental aspects -- Australia -- Victoria.
Sewage -- Environmental aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Victoria. Stormwater Committee.
Victoria. Environment Protection Authority.
Other Form: Print version: Urban stormwater. Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., ©1999 0643064532 (OCoLC)44953413
ISBN 0643093508 (paper)
9780643093508 (paper)
9780643100596 (electronic book)
0643100598 (electronic book)
0643064532
9780643064539