This overall objective of this project was to moderate the impacts of urban run-off and extreme storm events through green infrastructure on private lands through “user pay” models and other incentives. Approaches like these will reduce the demand for grey stormwater infrastructure and generate a dedicated source of funds for maintenance, renewal and expansion.
There is a need in almost every Canadian municipality to adapt to and address changing climatic conditions. Through consultations with the cities of Halifax, London, Hamilton and Coquitlam, a number of gaps from past research were identified, forming the basis of this project.
Effective urban water management is vital for life and livelihood. Urban water supply and removal systems serve many critical functions, from that of health-support system to economic engine. Yet, when operating smoothly, their presence often goes unnoticed. Major disruptions, while dramatic and costly, are rare. Rather, it is the day-to-day system operations that produce the [...]
This project, led by Mohammed Dore and James Byrne, focused on the problem of combined sewer overflow and its effect on the Great Lakes Region.
The aims of the project were to evaluate the effect of non-point sources of pollution from urban and agricultural sources, to develop new methods to examine cumulative effects on watersheds with a focus on trace metals, pathogens, and antibiotics, and to test innovative methods to reduce ecosystem and human health impacts.
This project explored and developed a variety of empirical down-scaling methods to estimate a number of “100-year” precipitation projection scenarios for Victoria, the Fraser River Basin, Montreal and Niagara, all of which are vulnerable to climate change.
This research used a combination of techniques to determine contaminant loadings for the 30 sub-watersheds that contribute to the Lower Fraser Valley. It addressed the challenge of scaling up from sub-watersheds to watersheds, connecting land use to water quality data using GIS, nutrient budgets, modelling, hydrometric and stream monitoring data.
This project examined a wide range of innovative approaches to storm water management in Canada in order to provide planners, developer and municipal engineers with information on storm water management through a series of workshops.