An investigation into the performance of vegetated biofilters in removing nutrients from stormwater in the City of Cape Town, South Africa

In 2009, the City of Cape Town (CoCT) adopted a stormwater policy which mandates that new and existing developments should reduce the concentrations of phosphorus and suspended solids in stormwater runoff by 45% and 80% respectively, but offered no explicit guidance about how these water quality tar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Milandri, Stefan
Other Authors: Winter, Kevin
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11458