Highway Stormwater Runoff

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Highway Stormwater Runoff
U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway
Administration

• Patricia Cazenas
• Highway Engineer
• Water Ecosystems Team
• Federal Highway Administration
• Washington, D.C.
• Patricia.Cazenas_at_dot.gov
• 202-366-4085

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Highway Stormwater RunoffWater Quality Research

• BMP database
• Coalition of partners
• Recent website upgrades
• Jeff Moeller Sr. Program Director WERF
  jmoeller_at_werf.org

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Highway Stormwater RunoffWater Quality Research

• Highway Runoff Predictive Procedures- Driscoll
  Model

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Highway Stormwater RunoffWater Quality Research

• Site Characteristics - Highway type
• Precipitation -Data on Rainfall Volume,
  Intensity, Duration, Interval between storm
  events
• Stream Flow
• Pollutants
• Hardness
• Defines Target Concentration

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Highway Stormwater RunoffWater Quality Research

• NCHRP Projects
• Guidelines for Evaluating and Selecting
  Modifications to Existing Roadway Drainage
  Infrastructure to Improve Water Quality in
  Ultra-Urban Areas (25-31)
• Stormwater Treatment with Vegetated Buffers
• Water Quality Analyses for NEPA Documents

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Highway Stormwater RunoffWater Quality Research

• NCHRP Projects
• State Transportation Agency Strategies to Address
  NPDES Phase II Requirements
• Evaluation of Best Management Practices for
  Highway Runoff Control

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Highway Stormwater RunoffWater Quality Research

• Determining Components of Infrastructure to
  Stormwater Runoff
• National Synthesis on Potential Sources, Fate and
  Transport, and Potential Effects of Chloride in
  Surface- and Ground-Water Resources of the
  Conterminous United States

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Highway Stormwater Runoff

• 2009 Environmental Excellence Awards
  http//www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/eea2009/index.
  htm
• International Conference on Ecology and
  Transportation http//www.icoet.net/

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Highway Stormwater RunoffNHI classes

• National Highway Institute http//www.nhi.fhwa.do
  t.gov/home.aspx
• Water Quality Management of Highway Runoff
• Design and Implementation of Erosion and Sediment
  Control

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Highway Stormwater Runoff

• Questions????