Reducing Stormwater Basin Runoffs in College Township

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Course Title
Biological Engineering Design I/II
Course Letter Acronym
BE
Course Number
460/466
Project Lead Faculty
Jeffrey Catchmark

College Township, adjacent to State College and Penn State University Park’s campus, has experienced significant urban growth. Due to its location in the Spring Creek watershed and Chesapeake Bay watershed, sedimentation control due to stormwater runoff is important. This project involves retrofitting a 1.38-acre stormwater management basin in Penn Hills to include a runoff reduction function. The existing basin was originally constructed in the mid 1980’s to provide peak runoff control from 70 ...


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