Remote Sensing (Mar 2024)

A Framework Based on LIDs and Storage Pumping Stations for Urban Waterlogging

  • Huayue Li,
  • Qinghua Luan,
  • Jiahong Liu,
  • Cheng Gao,
  • Hong Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16071207
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 7
p. 1207

Abstract

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Climate change has resulted in an increase in extreme rainstorm events, posing the challenges of urban waterlogging and runoff pollution. Low Impact Development (LID) is widely used to address the issues above, but its effectiveness is unknown in mountainous areas. Due to a flash flood and high flood peak, storage pumping stations are also needed to drain. Thus, a framework composed of storage pumping stations and Low Impact Developments (LIDs) was proposed based on the topography and the regional upstream and downstream relationships. The water quantity in this framework is applied to YI County in Hebei Province, China. The results showed that individual LIDs effectively reduced runoff volume, with the implementation area being more crucial than the location. Combining storage pumping stations with LIDs significantly reduces peak outflow and delays it by 5 to 51 min. The combined downstream implementation of storage pumping stations and LIDs yielded the most effective results. These findings offer important insights and management strategies for controlling waterlogging in mountainous cities of developing countries.

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