Susanne M. Charlesworth

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

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The Fate of Pollutants in Porous Asphalt Pavements, Laboratory Experiments to Investigate Their Potential to Impact Environmental Health

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2017)

Susanne M. Charlesworth Jamie Beddow Ernest O. Nnadi

Pervious Paving Systems (PPS) are part of a sustainable approach to drainage in which excess surface water is encouraged to infiltrate through their structure, during which potentially toxic elements, such as metals and hydrocarbons are treated by biodegradation and physical entrapment and storage. However, it is not known where in the PPS structure these contaminants accumulate, which has implications for environmental health, particularly during maintenance, as well as consequences for the recycling of material from the PPS at the end-of-life. A 1 m³ porous asphalt (PA) PPS test rig was monitored for 38 months after monthly additions of road sediment (RS) (367.5 g in total) and unused oil (430 mL in total), characteristic of urban loadings, were applied. Using a rainfall simulator, a typical UK rainfall rate of 15 mm/h was used to investigate its efficiency in dealing with contamination. Water quality of the effluent discharged from the rig was found to be suitable for discharge to most environments. On completion of the monitoring, a core was taken down through its surface, and samples of sediment and aggregate were taken. Analysis showed that most of the sediment remained in the surface course, with metal levels lower than the original RS, but higher than clean, unused aggregate or PA. However, even extrapolating these concentrations to 20 years' worth of in-service use (the projected life of PPS) did not suggest their accumulation would present an environmental pollution risk when carrying out maintenance of the pavement and also indicates that the material could be recycled at end-of-life.

Environmental Pollution

10.3390/ijerph14060666

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Spatial and temporal variations of trace element distribution in soils and street dust of an industrial town in NW Spain: 15years of study

The Science of The Total Environment (2015)

Almudena Ordóñez Rodrigo Álvarez Eduardo de Miguel Susanne M. Charlesworth

Trace element

Industrial city

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.024

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Sedimentology of aqueous systems.

C. Poleto Susanne M. Charlesworth

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The application of some mineral magnetic measurements and heavy metal analysis for characterising fine sediments in an urban catchment, Coventry, UK

Journal of Applied Geophysics (2001)

Susanne M. Charlesworth J. A. Lees

Environmental Magnetism

Biogeochemical Cycle

10.1016/s0926-9851(01)00084-2

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Pollution, rescue and management: the problem of two shallow urban lakes, Coventry, UK

Biological Conservation (1993)

Susanne M. Charlesworth Ian Foster

10.1016/0006-3207(93)90539-d

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Introduction: The sedimentology of aqueous systems

Cristiano Poleto Susanne M. Charlesworth

10.1002/9781444317114.ch

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Laboratory-based experiments to investigate the impact of glyphosate-containing herbicide on pollution attenuation and biodegradation in a model pervious paving system

Chemosphere (2012)

Fredrick U. Mbanaso Stephen J. Coupe Susanne M. Charlesworth Ernest O. Nnadi

Bioindicator

10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.09.058

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Sediment sources and transport pathways in a rural catchment, Herefordshire, UK

Hydrological Processes (2003)

K. E. Gruszowski Ian Foster J. A. Lees Susanne M. Charlesworth

Abstract The relative significance of primary and secondary suspended sediment sources has been identified in a small (15 km 2 ) agricultural catchment through the application of a linear unmixing model using mineral magnetic, geochemical and radionuclide signatures of fine sediments. Roads appear to be important as a secondary source of suspended sediment and in the conveyance of topsoils to the river channel. Roads also alter the source signatures of sediment in transport, especially that derived from agricultural topsoils. Modelling suggests that c . 30% of the suspended sediment collected from suspended sediment traps in the River Leadon were derived from, or transported via, roads. Relative contributions from primary sources of c . 43% and c . 27% were estimated from a combined (subsoil and channel bank) subsurface source, and a combined (arable and grassland) topsoil source, respectively. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Bank

10.1002/hyp.1296

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The use of mineral magnetic measurements in polluted urban lakes and deposited dusts, Coventry, U.K.

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (1997)

Susanne M. Charlesworth J. A. Lees

Deposition

Mineral dust

Heavy mineral

10.1016/s0079-1946(97)00103-1

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Sustainable Catchment-Wide Flood Management: A Review of the Terminology and Application of Sustainable Catchment Flood Management Techniques in the UK

Water (2022)

Craig Lashford Tom Lavers Sim Reaney Susanne M. Charlesworth Lydia Burgess‐Gamble

Climate change has seen increased pressures put on the existing ageing flood mitigation infrastructure. As a result, over recent decades there has been a shift from traditional hard-engineered approaches to flooding to more sustainable methods that utilise nature-based processes in order to slow flow, store water and increase infiltration. Doing so has resulted in a range of different nomenclature for such techniques, particularly in the rural environment. This paper takes a critical review of such terms to draw parallels in the different approaches, with the aim of developing a more unified, consistent approach to flood management. Furthermore, links have been drawn with the urban environment, where Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) are used as a sustainable approach to urban flooding. The findings from this review have identified a series of issues that result from the current UK approach of differentiating between urban and rural flood risk, with funding often given for Natural Flood Management (NFM) projects separately to SuDS, with little integrated thinking from source to sea. Hence, the review suggests (1) a greater consideration of scale, focusing on the catchment as a whole, is required to ensure a more holistic approach to flood management, under the phrase “sustainable catchment-wide flood management”, to ensure that the focus shifts from NFM (rural) and SuDS (urban), to a more integrated catchment-wide approach; (2) the development of robust policy and regulatory framework, to ensure that such an approach is more widely adopted; (3) a greater consideration of the long-term costs is also required, with future research needed on the long-term maintenance costs of different methods; (4) the development of modelling approaches that can simulate flow at a range of spatial and temporal scales, to support stakeholders, such as local authorities, flood risk engineers and government agencies when considering flow not only in rural areas, but also to understand the impact beyond the immediate area around the scheme.

10.3390/w14081204

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