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7.4.4 Source Control - managing runoff at source
Concept Design Source Control features include pervious Source control also ensures that SuDS 7.4.5 Conveyance of runoff between SuDS components Concept Design
Where runoff is conveyed below ground
Runoff should travel along the management
components are less susceptible to erosion
train at or near the surface wherever
surfaces, filter strips, green / blue roofs, and
through a pipe, for example connecting one
further down the management train, as
some basins and swales. Source control
SuDS component to the next to facilitate
possible. The features commonly used for
crossing under a road or pathway, the invert
this purpose are swales or other vegetated
runoff is not conveyed at peak flow rates
features slow the flow of runoff, and remove
level of the pipe should be kept as shallow as
along the system, thereby increasing the
the worst pollution at the beginning of the
channels and hard-surfaced channels such as
rills, gutters or dished channels in a more
potential for interception losses.
management train.
possible to re-connect flow into surface SuDS
Source control features protect the remaining
short connectors, without inspection
through permeable pavement sub-base as
parts of the management train, enhancing
well as filter drains and under-drained swales.
chambers or bends, to reduce the risk of
amenity and biodiversity within the urban context. Conveyance is also possible features. Pipes should ideally only be used as
blockage and allow simple rodding or jetting
development. Surface conveyance can provide the when necessary.
following benefits:
The CIRIA SuDS manual (Page 876) notes
■ a reduction in infrastructure costs
that:
■ increased interception losses
■ treatment of pollution
“SuDS design usually avoids use of below-
■ ease of maintenance ground structures such as gully pots, oil
interceptors, and other sumps which are a
Design Note: ■ easily understood SuDS – legibility
Source Control features, such as pervious pavements and blue-green roofs, can be designed wildlife hazard, often ineffective and
to attenuate all of the 1 in 100 + CCA storage, with the introduction of a simple flow control ■ connectivity for wildlife expensive to maintain.”
33 device. ■ attractive landscape features. 34

Identification of surface or shallow sub-
A basin without source control can result in silt,
oil and litter pollution that reduces both the surface conveyance at the Concept Design
amenity and biodiversity value of the feature. stage is important to ensure that these
pathways are retained through the remaining
design process.

Conveyance swale at
Waseley Hills High
School, Worcestershire.

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