Difference between revisions of "Water quality"

From LID SWM Planning and Design Guide
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Line 10: Line 10:
==See Also==
==See Also==
[[Winter]]
[[Winter]]
[[Category:Water quality]]


==External Links==
==External Links==

Revision as of 15:32, 2 November 2017

Overview[edit]

Improvements in the quality of stormwater runoff is one of the primary benefits of low impact development strategies.

Nutrients[edit]

Plants (including algae) require three macro nutrients to grow: Nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus. Of these three, phosphorus is the often the "growth-limiting" nutrient. i.e. the local environment may have an abundance of nitrogen and potassium, but algae won't develop unless phosphorus is available too. Phosphorus

Heavy metals[edit]

See Also[edit]

Winter

External Links[edit]

References[edit]