Analysis of the recharge potential of storm-water basins on Long Island, New York
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Abstract
Many of the more than 2,200 storm-water basins on Long Island, N.Y., are potential sites for infiltration of large volumes of reclaimed water (highly treated domestic and industrial sewage). By use of a finite-difference method of calculation, changes in basin storage during idealized high-intensity storms were determined for the North Massapequa basin, a typical basin on Long Island. Calculations for a 100- year storm, in which a runoff coefficient of 20 percent was used but in which infiltration rate, storm intensity, storm duration, and return period were varied, indicate that this test basin would not overflow even if the infiltration rate declined from its present 1.5 feet per hour (0.46 meter per hour) to about 0.03 ft/h (0.009 m/h). The large reserve capacity of the test basin and similar basins on Long Island demonstrates the feasibility of using storm-water basins for infiltration of a supplemental water supply (supplemental recharge). If reclaimed water were ponded to a depth of 4 ft (1.2 m) in the test basin and if water application were alternated for equal periods between the test basin and a nearby basin with similar characteristics, the volume of infiltration would be slightly more than two million gallons per day (0.09 cubic meters per second) at an infiltration rate of 1.5 ft/h (0.46 m/h). With supplemental recharge, 60 percent of available storage capacity would be used during a 10-yr storm, and 80 percent would be used during a 100-yr storm, using a runoff coefficient of 20 percent.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Analysis of the recharge potential of storm-water basins on Long Island, New York |
| Series title | Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 1977 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U. S. Geological Survey |
| Description | 12 p. |
| First page | 307 |
| Last page | 318 |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| Other Geospatial | Long Island |
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