Australian runoff quality
Subtitle: a guide to water sensitive urban design
By: editor-in-chief, T.H.F. Wong, [for the Authorship Team]
Contributors: Wong, T. H. F.; Engineers Australia. National Committee on Water Engineering.
Publisher: Engineers Media
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Crows Nest, N.S.W
Language: eng
Subjects: Urban runoff -- Australia -- Management.; Sewage -- Purification -- Filtration -- Australia.; Storm water retention basins -- Australia -- Design and construction.; Urban hydrology -- Australia.; Environmental protection.; Storm sewers.; Drainage.; Sewerage.; Urban runoff.
Other titles: ARQ; Guide to water sensitive urban design
Notes: The National Committee on Water Engineering has published Australian Runoff Quality (ARQ) a document aimed at providing an overview of current best practice in the management of urban stormwater in Australia, within the context of total urban water cycle management and integration of management practices into the urban built form--Preface, p. vii.

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Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Stormwater contaminant processes and pathways; title: 3. Urban stormwater pollutant characteristics; title: 4. Water sensitive urban design; title: 5. Institutional capacity; title: 6. Urban water harvesting and reuse; title: 7. Establishing stormwater management targets to protect receiving waters; title: 8. Gross pollutant and sediment traps; title: 9. Hydrocarbon management; title: 10. Buffer strips, vegetated swales and bioretention systems; title: 11. Infiltration systems; title: 12. Constructed wetlands and ponds; title: 13. Urban waterways; title: 14. Modelling urban stormwater management systems.