Residential applications of sustainable stormwater techniques to alleviate combined sewer overflow : Garfield Heights, Ohio : an honors thesis [(HONRS 499)]

The issue of water quality is often associated with the city of Cleveland, Ohio, usually for its historical lack of concern. Since the inception of the Clean Water Act, there has been a nationwide reduction in point source pollution that has contaminated our waterways. While that source of pollution has been reduce, urban centers that are serviced by a Combined Sewer System (CSS) still emptying raw sewage into waterways as a result of Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO). CSO is a result of an excessive amount of "waste" water that enters the system over a short period of time that is often the result of a storm event. Through a new approach to storm water infrastructure, the amount of wastewater that enters one of Cleveland's CSS's shall be reduced by designing the residential network of a community to incorporate Green Infrastructure practices. The residential landscape presents the ideal instrument through which storm water management can be implemented along with educating the residents of a community about their impact upon the broader reality of CSO and the quality of our waterways.