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Evaluating the Effect of the Location and Design of Retention Ponds on Flooding in a Peri-Urban River Catchment

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Stephen Birkinshaw

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© 2022 by the authors.In order to reduce the flooding risk in urban and peri-urban river catchments, retention ponds or wet detention ponds are often used. However, there has been little work that uses distributed hydrological modeling to consider their optimum location and design in order to reduce the flood risk in a river catchment. This work considers two existing and two potential ponds in the 22.8 km2 Braid Burn catchment, Edinburgh, Scotland. Using the Shetran physically based distributed hydrological model, the effect of these ponds on the river discharges for eight measured rainfall events and two design rainfall events is considered. The results show the larger Blackford pond is best at reducing the peak discharge at the catchment outlet. The other three ponds are designed to be almost the same. The potential pond in the upper part of the catchment reduces the peak discharge at the outlet; the pond in the middle at Oxgangs makes little difference to the peak discharge, while the potential pond in the lower part of the catchment increases the peak discharge at the outlet. These results show that when considering flood risk, the location of a retention pond within a river catchment is important, and it can make the flooding worse at the outlet if it is located in the wrong location. This work suggests the pond should be located in the upper part of the catchment, although the ideal location will depend on the catchment’s shape and lag time.


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Author(s): Birkinshaw SJ, Krivtsov V

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Land

Year: 2022

Volume: 11

Issue: 8

Online publication date: 22/08/2022

Acceptance date: 16/08/2022

Date deposited: 16/06/2023

ISSN (electronic): 2073-445X

Publisher: MDPI

URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081368

DOI: 10.3390/land11081368


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EP/P004334/1EPSRC
NERC Open CLimate IMpacts modeling framework (OpenCLIM)
NE/T013931/1

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