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Highway Stormwater Runoff Patricia Cazenas Highway Engineer Water & Ecosystems Team Federal Highway Administration Washington, D.C.

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1 Highway Stormwater Runoff Patricia Cazenas Highway Engineer Water & Ecosystems Team Federal Highway Administration Washington, D.C. Patricia.Cazenas@dot.gov 202-366-4085 U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration

2 Highway Stormwater Runoff Water Quality Research BMP database Coalition of partners Recent website upgrades Jeff Moeller –Sr. Program Director WERF jmoeller@werf.org jmoeller@werf.org

3 Highway Stormwater Runoff Water Quality Research Highway Runoff Predictive Procedures- Driscoll Model

4 Highway Stormwater Runoff Water Quality Research Site Characteristics - Highway type Precipitation -Data on Rainfall –Volume, Intensity, Duration, Interval between storm events Stream Flow Pollutants Hardness Defines Target Concentration

5 Highway Stormwater Runoff Water 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

6 Highway Stormwater Runoff Water Quality Research NCHRP Projects – State Transportation Agency Strategies to Address NPDES Phase II Requirements – Evaluation of Best Management Practices for Highway Runoff Control

7 Highway Stormwater Runoff Water 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

8 Highway Stormwater Runoff 2009 Environmental Excellence Awards http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/envir onment/eea2009/index.htm International Conference on Ecology and Transportation http://www.icoet.net/

9 Highway Stormwater Runoff NHI classes National Highway Institute http://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/home.aspx http://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/home.aspx Water Quality Management of Highway Runoff Design and Implementation of Erosion and Sediment Control

10 Highway Stormwater Runoff Questions????


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