A wet pond in Oslo, Norway, receiving highway runoff was studied. The pond was equipped for continuous monitoring of inflow and outflow. Samples were collected over a 1-year period and analysed. The treatment performance was documented and an adverse effect of snowmelt runoff observed. The wet pond was modelled by routing the measured flow through the pond and simulating pollutant removal by first-order kinetics. The relative importance of the permanent pool of water and the design storm storage was assessed with respect to pollutant removal.
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Vollertsen, J. et al. (2007). Monitoring and modelling the performance of a wet pond for treatment of highway runoff in cold climates. In: Morrison, G.M., Rauch, S. (eds) Highway and Urban Environment. Alliance For Global Sustainability Bookseries, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6010-6_43
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