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Statistics for simulating structural stormwater runoff best management practices (BMPs) with the Stochastic Empirical Loading and Dilution Model (SELDM)

Metadata Updated: July 6, 2024

This data release documents statistics for simulating structural stormwater runoff best management practices (BMPs) with the Stochastic Empirical Loading and Dilution Model (SELDM). The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) developed SELDM and the statistics documented in this report in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to indicate the risk for stormwater flows, concentrations, and loads to be above user-selected water-quality goals and the potential effectiveness of mitigation measures to reduce such risks. In SELDM, three treatment variables, hydrograph extension, volume reduction, and water-quality treatment are modeled by using the trapezoidal distribution and the rank correlation with the associated highway-runoff variables. This data release also documents statistics for estimating the minimum irreducible concentration (MIC), which is the lowest expected effluent concentration from a BMP site or a class of BMPs. These statistics are different from the statistics commonly used to characterize or compare BMPs. They are designed to provide a stochastic transfer function to approximate the quantity, duration, and quality of BMP effluent given the associated inflow values for a population of storm events. In SELDM, BMP performance is the result of random combinations of variables documented in this report and the interplay among the selected distributions and correlations to inflow variables. Granato (2014) and Granato and others (2020) describe the methods used to calculate these statistics and provide summary statistics for these variables. This data release provides the individual at-site statistics. The statistics were calculated by using data extracted from a modified copy of the December 2019 version of International Stormwater Best Management Practices Database. Sufficient data were available to estimate statistics for 8 to 12 BMP categories by using data from 44 to more than 265 monitoring sites. Water-quality treatment statistics, including trapezoidal ratios and MIC values were developed for 51 runoff-quality constituents commonly measured in highway and urban runoff studies.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date June 1, 2023
Metadata Updated Date July 6, 2024

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