Resources
Manual: Managing Stormwater for Urban Sustainability using Trees and Structural Soils (English) (French)
Our research group has prepared this manual to help stormwater engineers, public works departments, and others to put this new approach-or elements of it-into practice.
Presentation:Trees and Structural Soils: A New Stormwater Management Practice for Sustainable Urban Sites (.ppsx)(.pdf)
Click here to download the presentation with notes.
Note: a prepared CD of this manual and the presentation are available upon request.
Other Manuals or Reports
Urban Runoff Pollutants Removal of Three Engineered Soils by Qingfu Xiao and Greg McPherson
Using CU-Structural Soil in the Urban Environment by the Urban Horticulture Institute
Using Porous Asphalt and CU-Structural Soil by the Urban Horticulture Institute
Handouts
Virginia Tech's Mini Parking Lot
Engineered soil, trees and stormwater runoff: the UC Davis parking lot project
Pollutant Removal and Runoff Storage Testing of Three Engineered Soils (poster)
Research Publications
Click here for more information on academic publications and conference proceedings related to this research.