Concentration of metals and base cations in green stormwater infrastructure soils

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).