An integrated planning framework for urban stormwater management : a one water approach
department or school: Applied Science, Faculty of
department or school: Engineering, School of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Hager, James Kirk
issued: 2019-04-24T14:49:38Z
issued: 2019
related degree: Master of Applied Science - MASc
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Flooded streets and homes, polluted surface water bodies, degraded aquatic habitats, stressed aquifers, and expensive drainage infrastructure are evidence that Canada’s current approach to stormwater management is not financially or environmentally sustainable. Although there are several decision support tools and frameworks for stormwater management planning that have been developed in the past decade, few are suited to the specific needs of long-term community-level urban stormwater management planning in Canada’s diverse and extreme climates. To address the above-mentioned challenges, the development of a modern community-level urban stormwater decision support framework was proposed. The framework is capable of adapting to suit the needs of resilient stormwater infrastructure planning in Canada. The framework will assess low impact development infrastructure, traditional stormwater infrastructure, and community-level stormwater reuse schemes to identify the optimal resilient stormwater management strategy for a new urban community development in Canada based on the community’s water footprint. The proposed framework incorporates stochastic variation in natural processes (e.g., inter- and intra-annual variability in precipitation patterns) to predict a community’s water footprint using the “one water approach”. The one water approach is an integrated planning framework for managing all water resources (including stormwater, wastewater, and drinking water). A climate change sensitivity analysis is also incorporated to test any proposed stormwater systems for resiliency to Canada’s changing climate. The framework relies on two multi-criteria, multi-period decision-making methods to optimize a community’s stormwater infrastructure based on constraints defined by community planners. The proposed framework will allow new-community developers and planners to reduce a community’s long-term water footprint by identifying the optimal combination of resilient and cost-effe…
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/69901
note: i AN INTEGRATED PLANNING FRAMEWORK FOR URBAN STORMWATER MANAGEMENT: A ONE WATER APPROACH by James Kirk Hager BSc (Geology), Mount Royal University, 2015 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF APPLIED SCIENCE in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Civil Engineering) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) April 2019 © James Kirk Hager, 2019 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance a thesis/dissertation entitled: AN INTEGRATED PLANNING FRAMEWORK FOR URBAN STORMWATER MANAGEMENT: A ONE WATER APPROACH Submitted by James Kirk Hager in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Applied Science. Dr. Rehan Sadiq, School of Engineering Supervisor Dr. Kasun Hewage, School of Engineering Co-Supervisor Dr. Zheng Liu, School of Engineering Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Shahria Alam, School of Engineering Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Homayoun Najjaran, School of Engineering University Examiner iii Abstract Flooded streets and homes, polluted surface water bodies, degraded aquatic habitats, stressed aquifers, and expensive drainage infrastructure are evidence that Canada’s current approach to stormwater management is not financially or environmentally sustainable. Although there are several decision support tools and frameworks for stormwater management planning that have been developed in the past decade, few are suited to the specific needs of long-term community-level urban stormwater management planning in Canada’s diverse and extreme climates. To address the abovementioned challenges, the development of a modern community-level urban stormwater decision support framework was proposed. The framework is capable of adapting to suit the needs of resilient stormwater infrastructure planning in Canada. The framework will assess low impact development infrastructure, traditional stormwater infrastructure, and community-l…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2019-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0378431
language: eng
degree discipline: Civil Engineering
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/69901