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Cities are facing major threats related to a changing climate. Issues related to urban stormwater management are rising importance. Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) have sown a high potential to manage urban stormwater from a holistic perspective: managing water quantity and quality in decentralised schemes as well as delivering multiple benefits for citizens and urban biodiversity. 

The main goal of the SUDSlong project is to solve scientific and technical knowledge gaps related to the long-term performance of sustainable stormwater management at real living-labs scale. This is a further step from previous coordinated projects of the teams involved in SUDSlong because until now, former research activities were focused on lab scale. The research will focus also in developing tools and procedures to be applied at city scale, being this the main original contribution of the project, oriented for public administrations and practitioners. This will promote a general framework to optimise SUDS performance, and city resilience and sustainability. This framework will ensure that all the necessary processes of urban regeneration for adaptation to climate change threats related to stormwater management will be conducted incorporating sustainability and smart governance criteria.

SUDSlong consists of three subprojects: SUDSlong-VLC, developed by Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in Valencia (VLC), SUDSlong-SDR, developed by Universidad de Cantabria (UC)in Santander(SDR), and SUDSlong-LGC, developed by Universidade da Coruña (UDC) in A Coruña (LCG), which coordinates the proposal.

The long-term monitoring of different SUDS techniques in three different living labs is one of the main objectives of the SUDSlong project. UDC will lead the definition of common and interchanged protocols for hydraulic and environmental pollution assessment of the living labs. The challenge is focused in how to define standardised procedures for SUDS asset performance using robust and validated data sensor quality assessment tools. UDC, UPV and UC will monitor in long-term a diverse set of real SUDS techniques in different climatic regions. UPV and UC subproject are focused in mature systems, in which clogging and management practices can play an important role in the overall asset performance. Complementary actions to gain more insights about the performance of SUDS are planned. UDC will analyse the source contribution of accumulated dust and dirt in catchment areas. Besides, UPV team will
monitoring SUDS potential for microplastics retention, and UC team will test new materials and procedures for improving the performance of permeable pavements and green roofs.

The second main goal of SUDSlong is to develop some complementary open tools to analyse the resilience and performance of SUDS at city scale. UDC will provide a robust framework for data analysis, assess SUDS performance, and lead the governance actions of the project by improve the impact of SUDS research by enhancing redSUDS framework. UPV contributes to city resilience by analysing the benefits of SUDS implementation by using numerical modelling and geographycal information systems (GIS). Furthermore, some side effects of SUDS implementation on drainage systems will be assessed. Lastly, UC will propose a methodology to determine sustainability and resilience of the cities which will implemented in a serious game for stakeholder participation engagement.

 

The SUDSlong coordinated project (Sustainable urban drainage systems improvement and strategic management for long-term success) is financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN), the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) and is composed of the following subprojects:

Awards

Runoff pollution monitoring and management with sustainable urban drainage solutions (SUDSlong-LCG)
Ministry of Science
Long-term assessment of mature SUDS and their role in enhancing urban resilience (SUDSlong-VLC)
Ministry of Science
Improvement of permeable surfaces and serious games for decision-making on urban drainage (SUDSlong-SDR)
Ministry of Science