Although runoff from trafficked urban areas is recognized as a potentially significant pathway of micropollutants, runoff pollution remains poorly documented, except for relatively few historical pollutants such as some metals and hydrocarbons. Therefore, in this work, road and parking lot runoff from four sites with contrasting traffic levels were...
Future climate scenarios for the Mediterranean region indicate a possible decrease in annual precipitation associated with an intensification of extreme rainfall events in the coming years. A major challenge in this region is to evaluate the impacts of changing precipitation patterns on extreme hydrological events such as droughts and floods. For t...
A major forthcoming sanitary issue concerns the apparition and spreading of drug-resistant microorganisms, potentially threatening millions of humans. In low-income countries, polluted urban runoff and open sewage channels are major sources of microbes. These microbes join natural microbial communities in aquatic ecosystems already impacted by vari...
The efficiency of three stormwater management systems (a dry basin, a wet basin and a vegetative swale) for the reduction of flow, trace metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and pesticides was studied. Metal concentrations (with the exception of cadmium) at the inlet of the three systems are generally above the standards for good freshwa...
The treatment efficiency of a vegetative filter strip and a biofiltration swale treating heavily loaded road runoff are evaluated. Concentrations measured in water drained from the two systems are compared to those in untreated road runoff collected from a reference catchment for a wide range of contaminants including organic carbon, nutrients (N a...
Published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Alkylphenol (AP) and bisphenol A (BPA) contamination of urban runoff has already been established. Potential sources of these contaminants in runoff are endogenous to the urban watershed and are mainly related to traffic and leaching from construction materials. This article summarizes the results of experimental work carried out on a selection of ...
La nouvelle compétence GEMAPI du code de l'Environnement instaure la mise en cohérence des actions visant à réduire le risque d'inondation et la gestion des milieux aquatiques. Elle ouvre une nouvelle perspective sur la gestion des espaces y compris terrestres. Cela tient au fait que les milieux aquatiques sont les récepteurs finaux des conséquence...
