Item talk:Q226854

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 "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/new-england-water-science-center/science/delineating-high-resolution-urban-drainage-0",
 "headline": "Delineating High-Resolution Urban Drainage Systems for Stormwater Management in the Neponset River Watershed",
 "datePublished": "March 20, 2024",
 "author": [
   {
     "@type": "Person",
     "name": "Pete Steeves",
     "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/pete-steeves",
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       "value": "0000-0001-7558-9719"
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   {
     "@type": "Person",
     "name": "Laura Harrington",
     "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/laura-harrington",
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       "value": "0009-0006-4536-0992"
     }
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   {
     "@type": "Person",
     "name": "Alana Burton Spaetzel",
     "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/alana-burton-spaetzel",
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     "text": "Historic industrialization and growing development have contaminated the Neponset River watershed, which encompasses an area of 117 square miles extending south of Boston to Foxborough, Massachusetts and is home to more than 330,000 persons. Today\u2019s primary sources of pollution in the watershed are stormwater precipitation and snowmelt that transport contaminants on the ground into rivers and streams through storm drains and pipes. The new Neponset River Watershed tool will help municipalities and other stakeholders address water-quantity and quality concerns by accurately characterizing the stormwater drainage network and drainage areas within the watershed."
   },
   {
     "@type": "TextObject",
     "text": "Developed similarly to the Mystic River Basin web tool, this application incorporates 1-meter resolution lidar-derived elevation data and stormwater infrastructure information into the USGS StreamStats application. Because drainage networks are typically unavailable in StreamStats, adding the location of drains, pipes, and culverts into the application combined with topographic data, creates a comprehensive watershed-scale stormwater drainage network."
   },
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     "text": "The natural environment and manmade infrastructure must be considered when characterizing hydrology and water quality in urban watersheds. This requirement is critical in stormwater management, which must account for how water flows above ground and underground through stormwater infrastructure. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is expanding its set of online web tools for application in urban watersheds. The new tool will be used to support stormwater management and pollutant estimation in the Neponset River Watershed, an industrialized area south of Boston, Massachusetts. Development of this watershed-scale tool in the publicly-accessible StreamStats web application supports all of the towns within the watershed. Many of these towns are identified by the state as Environmental Justice (EJ) populations, or communities more vulnerable to environmental hazards because of limited resources."
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   {
     "@type": "TextObject",
     "text": "Including infrastructure in watershed-scale tools is important for understanding urban hydrology and supporting decision makers. As increased attention is given to managing stormwater runoff and its impacts on water quality and quantity, the need to accurately characterize the areas that contribute pollutants to impacted waterbodies will grow."
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   {
     "@type": "TextObject",
     "text": "The tool will allow users to view the network of stormwater pipes and inlets (catch basins) across the entire watershed, delineate drainage areas derived from high-resolution elevation data and stormwater infrastructure, and compute land-use and land-cover basin characteristics (such as identifying areas as residential or commercial). Additionally, the StreamStats tool enables the user to estimate pollutant loads in accordance with requirements in the Massachusetts Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) General Permit Pollutant Loading Export Rates."
   }
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 "funder": {
   "@type": "Organization",
   "name": "New England Water Science Center",
   "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/new-england-water-science-center"
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     "name": "Neponset River"
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