Concentration of metals and base cations in green stormwater infrastructure soils

<p>Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) is adopted to reduce the impact of stormwater on urban flooding and water quality issues. Traditional methods use inflow versus outflow metal and base cation concentrations from water samples at inlet and outlet to determine accumulation in GSI basins which can be expensive sometimes. Soil sampling could be a more cost-effective and time-averaged approach in evaluating the accumulation of metals and base cations in GSI compared to the traditional methods. This dataset presents data from twenty-one GSI basins soils located in New York and Pennsylvania, USA. The dataset contains a description of GSI basins considered in the study and the concentration of metals and base cations in those basins. The dataset includes concentrations of 3 base cations (Ca, Mg, Na) and 6 metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn). Various GSI basin characteristics are included in the dataset which includes information such as age of the basins, sources of runoff draining into the GSI basins, and drainage area ratio (ratio of the area draining into a GSI basin to the area of the GSI basin itself).</p>