Regional heterogeneity and driving factors of road runoff pollution from urban areas in China.

Due to the multiple influences of natural and anthropogenic factors, stormwater runoff from urban roads generally presents heterogeneous pollution among cities. The identification of regional heterogeneity and related driving factors of road runoff pollution is of significance for the optimal management of road runoff pollution according to the local circumstances. In this study, the regional heterogeneity of urban road runoff pollution from fourteen representative cities in China is analyzed for four typical pollutants including total suspended solids (TSS), chemical oxygen demand (COD), total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP).

A novel index for assessing the water quality of urban landscape lakes based on water transparency.

Assessment of the aesthetic and recreational value of urban landscape lakes (ULLs) is often required but there has not been a water quality index specifically applicable for such a purpose. Under a consideration that water transparency in terms of Secchi Depth (SD), to a large extent, determines the landscape effect, a study was conducted to identify the major parameters that strongly influence SD and to develop a novel water quality index. By theoretical analyses, it was found that SD is mainly influenced by the contents of chlorophyll a, inorganic suspended solids and organic detritus in water, which collectively relate to eight independent water quality, hydraulic, and environmental parameters, including SS, DO, COD, NH-N, NO-N, TP, HRT, and water temperature T.

Integrating stereo-elastic packing into ecological floating bed for enhanced denitrification in landscape water.

The effects of stereo-elastic packing, as additional bio-carriers, on nitrogen removal in enhanced ecological floating beds (EFBs) are evaluated. Enhanced EFBs with additional stereo-elastic packing was demonstrated to enhance maximum TN removal efficiency (65.8%) over that of EFBs with plant and ceramisite only (54.

Current status and characteristics of urban landscape lakes in China.

Urban landscape lakes (ULLs) are important environmental elements in most cities. In order to understand the current situation of ULLs in China and formulate proper strategies to improve their landscape quality to meet public desire for water-front enjoyment, a study was conducted of 189 ULLs widely distributed in 26 provinces of China, based on existing data and field surveys. These ULLs were firstly categorized according to their topographic features, climatic zones, and water replenishment sources.

[Enhanced Pollutant Removal Performance of an Integrated Biological Settling Tank from Micro-polluted Water Bodies].

To improve the capacity of present drinking water purification process on the removal of soluble pollutants and solve the problem of large area requirement and single function existing in the application of horizontal sedimentation tank, a novel biological settling tank was developed based on the designing concepts of rotating biological disk and sedimentation tank. Experimental results showed that the usage of rotating biological disk did not have notable effects on the turbidity removal capacity of the horizontal sedimentation tank. When the organic loading rate was 0.