Urban vacant lands impart hydrological benefits across city landscapes

Christa Kelleher; Heather E. Golden; Sean Burkholder; William Shuster

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15376-9

Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Urban vacant lands impart hydrological benefits across city landscapes

Christa Kelleher,
Heather E. Golden,
Sean Burkholder,
William Shuster

Affiliations

Christa Kelleher: Department of Earth Sciences and Civil Engineering, Syracuse University
Heather E. Golden: Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Sean Burkholder: Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania
William Shuster: Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15376-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The authors investigate the infiltration potential of more than 500 vacant lots in the City of Buffalo, NY, USA. They found that the expanding footprint of pervious cover as urban vacant land provides stormwater volume retention benefits on an event and annual basis.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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