A green roof will typically intercept the first 5mm and more of rainfall providing interception storage.
Green roof runoff impact.
In germany between 40 100 of rainfall can be retained dependent.
The technology addresses a wide array of environmental issues associated with urbanization.
Green roof runoff does contain concentrations of some nutrients and other parameters but values are in line with other planted systems.
Research at penn state has shown that green roofs provide considerable reduction in the volume of stormwater leaving a developed site and they reduce the peak rates of runoff.
The amount will be dependent on the depth and type of substrate in the green roof system.
Green roofs are unique in that they have the ability to capture and retain a volume depth of rain from each rainstorm.
In this paper an empirical formulation is compared to a conceptual framework to investigate the stormwater runoff coefficients.
In the summer a green roof can typically retain between 70 80 of the run off.
Due to the volume reduction actual nutrient loadings from green roofs are less than asphalt roofing runoff or otherwise manageable at the downspout.