Franco Montalto

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a simple model for assessing the cost-effectiveness of investments in low impact development (LID) for reducing combined sewer overflows (CSOs) in urban watersheds.

TL;DR: In this article, the reliability of rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems in New York City is evaluated using a bootstrapped markov chain model, which is based on a nonparametric rainfall generation procedure.

TL;DR: This preliminary analysis suggests that if implemented throughout an urban watershed, LID strategies may have important energy cost savings to WPCF, and can make progress towards reducing their carbon footprint.

TL;DR: In this paper, the invasion sites of Phragmites in polyhaline tidal wetlands are identified as the upland fringe and some high marsh creek banks, and the zones of potential invasion tend to be larger in higher-salinity portions of estuaries and in marshes that have been altered hydrologically.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of a series of experiments designed to simulate the hydrologic performance of green roofs under variable precipitation conditions were presented. But the experiments were designed in order to test performance under both steady, low-intensity rainfall, as well as under short duration, high intensity rainfall conditions, and the results showed that green roofs delayed, prolonged, and reduced the peak rates of green roof discharge to 22-70% that of a standard roof surface, with greater percent reductions associated with deeper roofs.