Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search
m
no edit summary
Line 1: Line 1: −
<div class="col-md-8">
+
This article is about underground systems which distribute concentrated flow along a level, linear facility to promote infiltration to native soils. <br>
 +
For a similar structure, which differs in being designed to receive excess flow and convey it, whilst promoting infiltration to native soils, see [[exfiltration trenches]].
 +
[[File:Kortright trench.PNG|thumb|The infiltration trench at Kortright is topped with [[filter fabric]] and decorative [[stone]], both of which provide some [[pretreatment]] and can easily be removed and replaced as an occasional maintenance task. For more details click [https://sustainabletechnologies.ca/app/uploads/2016/08/BioVSTrench_TechBrief__July2015.pdf here] ]] 
 
{{TOClimit|2}}
 
{{TOClimit|2}}
===Overview===
+
==Overview==
<p>As their name suggests infiltration trenches work primarily to infiltrate and convey stormwater. They are an underground facility and are excellently suited to connecting other components in the treatment train.</p>
+
{{float right|{{#widget:YouTube|id=DLXsb1FwKD4}}}}
{{TextBox|1=Infiltration trenches are an ideal technology for:  
+
As their name suggests infiltration trenches work primarily to infiltrate and convey stormwater. They are an underground facility and are excellently suited to connecting other components in the treatment train.
 +
{{textbox|1=Infiltration trenches are an ideal technology for:  
 
*Installing below any type of surface or landscape
 
*Installing below any type of surface or landscape
 
*Balancing the requirements to infiltrate excess stormwater whilst conveying excess}}
 
*Balancing the requirements to infiltrate excess stormwater whilst conveying excess}}
    <p><strong>The fundamental components of an infiltration trench are:</strong>
+
'''The fundamental components of an infiltration trench are:'''
*Layers of [[Reservoir_gravel|coarse aggregate]] to bed the chambers and redistribute water.  
+
*Layers of [[Reservoir_gravel|coarse aggregate]] to bed the pipe, store and redistribute water.  
 
*[[Pipes|Perforated pipe]]  
 
*[[Pipes|Perforated pipe]]  
*[[Geotextiles|Filter fabric a.k.a geotextile]]
+
*[[Geotextile]]
    </p>
+
 
</div>
+
==Planning considerations==
<div class="col-md-4">
+
As shown in the illustration above a surface inlet to an infiltration trench may simply be a channel of decorative [[stone]] supported by a [[geotextile]]. So that at grade it may be indistinguishable from a [[gravel diaphragm]]. In function though, the decorative surface course of the infiltration trench needs to remain free-draining down into the trench, whereas the gravel diaphragm is designed to spill over onto adjacent land, leaving sediment behind in the [[gravel]] or [[stone]] channel.
<panelSuccess>
+
 
<gallery mode="packed" widths=300px heights=300px>
+
==Design==
Infiltration trench.png| Schematic diagram of an underground infiltration trench
+
===Sizing===
</gallery>
+
'''[[Infiltration: Sizing and modeling]]'''
</panelSuccess>
+
*Virginia up to 10' (3 m) deep. <ref>Viriginia Department of Transport. (2010). VDOT BMP Design Manual of Practice. Retrieved March 15, 2018, from http://www.virginiadot.org/business/resources/LocDes/BMP_Design-Manual/Chapter_8_Infiltration_Trench.pdf</ref>
</div>
+
*Minnesota up to 12' (3.6 m) deep. <ref>Design criteria for Infiltration trench. (2016, September 21). Minnesota Stormwater Manual, . Retrieved 13:25, April 4, 2018 from https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Design_criteria_for_Infiltration_trench&oldid=28702.</ref>
<div class="col-md-12">
+
*"...not normally be deeper than 3 to 4 m in order to maximise the length of the flow path to the water table through the unsaturated zone." <ref>Design of soakaways (2015) www.tiipublications.ie/library/DN-DNG-03072-01.pdf</ref>
----
+
*There is a cost implication with digging deeper practices, trench boxes may be required to retain the side walls during construction.
 +
 
 +
==Materials==
 +
===Aggregate===
 +
{{:Reservoir aggregate}}
   −
===Design===
+
===Perforated Pipe===
<h4>Sizing</h4>
+
{{:Pipes}}
{{:Infiltration: Sizing and modeling}}
  −
----
  −
===Materials===
  −
{{:Gravel}}
   
*[[Geotextiles]]
 
*[[Geotextiles]]
 +
 +
==Construction==
 +
*[[Construction]]
 +
 +
==Gallery==
 +
{{:Infiltration trenches: Gallery}}
 +
 
----
 
----
===Construction===
  −
{{:Infiltration: Construction}}
  −
----
  −
===Incentives and Credits===
  −
<h4>In Ontario</h4>
  −
<h4>LEED BD + C v. 4</h4>
  −
{{:LEED: Rainwater management}}
  −
<h4>SITES v.2 </h4>
  −
----
  −
{{:Feedback}}
   
[[category:infiltration]]
 
[[category:infiltration]]
8,255

edits

Navigation menu