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<p>Rainwater management is one of the important problems of cities. At very strong downpours, storm sewer systems may not capture the rainwater, which floods pavements and roadways. The water flushes fuel and oil traces after vehicles, fallen debris, and other pollutants, which will be moved to the ground, ponds, rivers, seas, etc. In past, the problems were solved using engineering approaches – a set of rainwater receivers, a duct network, and at best, wastewater treatment plants. Now, the sponge city concept is a better solution that uses a biotechnological way for throttling water flows, drainage, and purifying them. The work aims to improve the design of roads to fully absorb rainwater from them with maximum convenience for road users. We propose a design of roads using special “green structures” – rain-garden bands along the sides of roadways. We tested its ability of water capturing on the example of Kyiv city by matching the ability with the strongest precipitation observed. In addition, the proposed plants can extinguish the energy of bouncing cars during road accidents for the protection of pavements.</p>
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Rainwater management is one of the important problems of cities. At very strong downpours, storm sewer systems may not capture the rainwater, which floods pavements and roadways. The water flushes fuel and oil traces after vehicles, fallen debris, and other pollutants, which will be moved to the ground, ponds, rivers, seas, etc. In past, the problems were solved using engineering approaches – a set of rainwater receivers, a duct network, and at best, wastewater treatment plants. Now, the sponge city concept is a better solution that uses a biotechnological way for throttling water flows, drainage, and purifying them. The work aims to improve the design of roads to fully absorb rainwater from them with maximum convenience for road users. We propose a design of roads using special “green structures” – rain-garden bands along the sides of roadways. We tested its ability of water capturing on the example of Kyiv city by matching the ability with the strongest precipitation observed. In addition, the proposed plants can extinguish the energy of bouncing cars during road accidents for the protection of pavements.

“Green structures” for effective rainwater management on roads

Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture

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Rainwater management is one of the important problems of cities. At very strong downpours, storm sewer systems may not capture the rainwater, which floods...

“Green structures” for effective rainwater management on roads

Published Online: Oct 21, 2022

Page range: 295 - 299

Received: Oct 11, 2021

Accepted: Jun 04, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30657/pea.2022.28.37

Keywords
flooding, rain garden, rainwater management, wastewater treatment, sponge city

© 2022 Roman Hlushchenko et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

“Green structures” for effective rainwater management on roads

Published Online: Oct 21, 2022

Page range: 295 - 299

Received: Oct 11, 2021

Accepted: Jun 04, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30657/pea.2022.28.37

Keywordsflooding, rain garden, rainwater management, wastewater treatment, sponge city

© 2022 Roman Hlushchenko et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Keywords
flooding, rain garden, rainwater management, wastewater treatment, sponge city