Sustainable design of storm-water treatment systems for small airports

Year 2021, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 40 - 51, 30.06.2021

Kemal Güneş

Abstract

Airports designated with special status; where, rather than passenger and cargo transportation; pilot, parachute, model plane and glider trainings are conducted mostly, have important functions in Turkey. They are much smaller than other commercial airports in terms of the space they occupy and the aircrafts used. Nevertheless, wastewater is produced due to runways and other impervious surfaces, though much less than large airports. Therefore, it is important, in terms of waste management, to eliminate wastewater that originates from these areas and to include them in waste management plans besides other pollutants. This is even more important especially in small airports that are located on drinking water basins. Exemplary effective and low cost treatment systems, which are easy to construct and manage and intended to treat pollutants which may be carried by storm water from asphalt and other impervious surfaces of small airports, are discussed in this study. According to a research conducted under meteorological conditions of Istanbul, BOD5 and heavy metal removals are taken as basis in these exemplary treatment systems. It has been calculated and recorded that constructed wetland system area which is required is 397m2 based on the estimated removal efficiency of 95% and the lowest average water temperature for Istanbul. On the other hand, preliminary treatment system that consists of filtration and settling pond, has a volume of 20 m3 and has the ability to discharge into a further treatment system following the preliminary treatment according to the conditions.

Keywords

Airport storm-water, low cost treatment, constructed wetlands, settling ponds, runoff treatment

Project Number

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