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SUDS Paper well received at US Conference May 2006

A paper on the Evapor-8 Sustainable Drainage Technology was presented at the World Environmental and Water Resource Congress in Omaha, Nebraska in the USA organised by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

The paper describes alternative strategies for the management of urban runoff where orthodox controlled hydraulic discharge to watercourse is not possible. The development of a new Fire Training Ground facility was constrained by a prohibition on the disposal of surface runoff to watercourse or ground water (because of low levels of persistent pollutants in the runoff) so a system using evaporation and water re-use was developed to create a unique surface water drainage system without a surface water outfall.

Surface runoff from the training ground catchment, excluding that generated during practice, is contained and stored beneath the permeable paved surface in a storage cell and managed either through evaporation or through harvesting for use in fire fighting practice.