A Complete Water Balance of a Rain Garden

<p>A bioinfiltration rain garden was retrofitted from an existing traffic island at Villanova University in 2001. It has been monitored continuously since 2003 at a five-minute timeseries resolution and with instrumentation that would enable a water balance calculation. This twenty-year dataset allows for an in-depth analysis of the hydrologic pathways and management in the rain garden. Using physical equations and modeled data (based on real-time measurements), a balance of all influent, stored, and effluent water within the rain garden was constructed.</p> <p>The water balance data (totals of individual water balance components) of all storms used in assessing the rain garden&rsquo;s performance in the study are provided in this dataset. This dataset is associated with the forthcoming publication:&nbsp;<em>A Complete Water Balance of a Rain Garden</em>&nbsp;(McGauley&nbsp;et al.&nbsp;2023).&nbsp;</p>