CUWRM

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The Center for Urban Water Resources Management conducts research that focuses on watershed management, including land-cover analyses and regional geology, streams and the protection of aquatic resources, water quality and urban stormwater runoff, groundwater movement and contamination, wastewater treatment, and water supply. Below is a list of current and recently completed projects. Where available, clicking on the highlighted link will connect you with either a project summary, status report, or final publication.

As of September 1, 2002, the Center for Streamside Studies and the Center for Urban Water Resources Management merged to form the Center for Water and Watershed Studies. The research formerly available here has moved. The individual links below will redirect you to their new locations.

The following list includes those research projects at the Center with Newsletter articles and/or online publications (in parentheses), and other associated publications (please go to our "PUBLICATIONS" page for ordering information of non-electronic documents):

LAND COVER AND IMPERVIOUSNESS
Landsat Land-Cover Classification (Sp 99, F 00)
Permeable Pavement Demonstration Project (W 96, F 96)
Forest cover, impervious-surface area, and the mitigation of urbanization impacts
City of Olympia's Impervious Surface Reduction Study

 

GEOLOGY AND SOILS
Puget Lowland geology and geologic hazards (Sp 97, Su 98)
Guidelines for landscaping with compost-amended soils (on City of Redmond web site) If this link does not work, you should be able to find the document through Redmond's Public Works Department web page
Soils for Salmon - How soil amendments and compost can aid in salmon recovery
 
STREAMS
An overview of urbanization and its effects on natural stream systems
 
Urban Stream Rehabilitation:
Urban Stream Rehabilitation (Final project report; summary report)
Riparian buffers in urban watersheds (W 97)
Effectiveness of LWD in rehabilitation projects (W 00, K25)
Sediment budget of mixed-use watershed (F 99, K23)
Rates of stream channel restabilization (Su 99, K24)
Biological evaluation of urban streams (Report; full thesis [Morley, 2000]) (Sp 00, K26)
Metrics to evaluate the hydrologic influence of urbanization on streams (F 00)
 
Stream Temperature:
Regional, synchronous stream temperature survey (Su 98, F 98)
Remote sensing of stream temperature (W 00)
 
Stream Monitoring:
Stream Monitoring (W 99)
Urban Planned Development monitoring (F 99, F 00)
Relationship of turbidity to total suspended solids
Monitoring of ephemeral stream benthic macroinvertebrates
 
WATER QUALITY/CHEMISTRY
Water-Quality Treatment
A survey of roadside ditches and swales (G15)
Performance predictors of bioswales (executive summary)
(Data from this project can be downloaded as an Access 97 database file - full thesis [Colwell 2000])
Maintenance of swales along freeways and highways
1999 status of vegetation management in roadside ditches
Ultra-urban stormwater management evaluation (F 99, G14)
Eastgate water-quality pond performance; full document available
as Publication (G13)
Environmental limitations to biofiltration swale vegetation ABSTRACT (G12)
 
 WATER REUSE
On-site Runoff Mitigation with Rooftop Rainwater Collection and Reuse (W 01; L2)

GROUNDWATER

Numerical modeling of groundwater in the Duwamish corridor
 
REFERENCES
Urban Issues Library (F 99)
Salmon in the City
Mail-order publications with on-line abstracts
 

Contact us at:

cuwrm@u.washington.edu

University of Washington
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Box 352700
Seattle, WA 98195-2700

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