ENVS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stormwater, Water Cycle

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 1200
• Professor: Anders Sandberg

Document Summary

Storm water management: stories about storm water management. Natural water cycle- cycles that exists in non-human nature (w/o interference) The engineered water cycle: the urban wet weather flows. Catch basins, storm water point sources, etc. 1) provides land for development (by burying storm sewers) 2) provides efficient and predictable disposal of storm water. 3) provides relatively easy engineered solutions to storm water management, solutions that can be applied anywhere: civil engineering. 1) may not be able to accommodate the larger and more frequent rainfalls that are likely to result from climate change. 4) contributes to the sedimentation of water courses and bodies: typically as we cut forests runoff is likely to pickup surrounding sediments that end up in larger water bodies. 6) shields us from alternatives (path dependency) Wet water flow management plan is an alternative plan created in 03". One of their goals is reestablish natural hydrological cycles and minimizing flood risks.