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Drainage behavior of sports pitches–A case study review

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posted on 2018-03-20, 11:09 authored by Paul FlemingPaul Fleming, Matthew W. Frost, Murray R. Simpson, R. Everett, R.J. Gibbs
The drainage behavior of sports pitches has traditionally been designed from experience with hydraulic performance rarely measured in detail. Within the wider industry and regulatory bodies there is a perception that storm water and increased drainage rates from sports pitches contribute to local flood risk. Empirical observations have suggested that in reality pitch drainage systems may discharge water at low volumes and rates and there is often limited surface run-off. Furthermore it appears that lack of technical guidance on the discharge of water from sport pitch drainage systems may have led to misunderstanding their drainage behavior and possible benefits they could bring to water management as opposed to perceived dis-benefits. This paper summarizes selected results of a case study which included field measurements of weather and discharge behavior on a range of natural turf sports pitches in England. The findings from this study indicate that natural turf sports pitches can provide resistance to flow and hence advantageous attenuation of rainfall and storm water. Additionally sports pitches can store large volumes of water within the pervious materials used in their design. The study has confirmed that sport pitches demonstrate the key functions that are reflected in the design requirements of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDs) such as pervious pavements providing source control of surface rain water.

Funding

This work was the part funded by Sport England and the Institute of Groundsmanship.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

itsrj

Volume

13

Issue

1

Pages

649 - 656 (7)

Citation

FLEMING, P.R. ...et al., 2017. Drainage behavior of sports pitches–A case study review. International Turfgrass Society Research Journal, 13(1), pp. 649-656.

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© International Turfgrass Society and ACSESS

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-06-01

Publication date

2017-10-19

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal International Turfgrass Society Research Journal and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.2134/itsrj2016.06.0450

eISSN

2573-1513

Language

  • en

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