Influence of green roof application on water quantity and quality in urban region.

Green roof is widely used in advanced stormwater management as a major measure now. Taking Huxi catchment in Chongqing University as the study area, the relationships between green roof installation with runoff volume and water quality in urban region were investigated. The results showed that roof greening in the urban region contributed to reducing the runoff volume and pollution load. In addition, the spatial distribution and area of green roof also had effects on the runoff water quality. With the conditions that the roof area was 25% of the total watershed area, rainfall duration was 15 min and rainfall intensity was 14. 8 mm·h-1, the peak runoff and total runoff volume were reduced by 5. 3% and 31%, the pollution loads of total suspended solid (TSS), total phosphorus (TP) and total nitrogen (TN) decreased by 40. 0%, 31. 6% and 29. 8%, their peak concentrations decreased by 21. 0%, 16. 0% and -12. 2%, and the EMCs (event mean concentrations) were cut down by 13. 1%, 0. 9% and -1. 7%, respectively, when all impervious roofs were greened in the research area. With the increase of roof greening rate, the reduction rates of TSS and TP concentrations increased, while the reduction rate of TN concentration decreased on the whole. Much more improvement could be obtained with the use of green roofs near the outlet of the watershed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]