When working with a driveway where the slope isn't parallel to the travel lanes, is the preferred orientation of a trench drain to follow the contours or to run perpendicular to the travel lane? The rational for placing it along the contour makes sense, just wondering if there is a reasonable...
Thanks for the response. The site drains, more or less, in the same direction and you're answer confirms what I originally thought. One follow up question, the stream into which my site drains collects runoff from a much larger basin than just my site so would you generate basins for these...
When calculating time of concentration, how do you account for a detention pond?
My site drains to a small creek and the proposed development includes a small pond through which most of the site will drain. I'm thinking the most appropriate point at which to calculate the time of concentration...
Thanks for the feedback, I haven't yet tried the average area method but will give it a shot.
I have my solutions setup in spreadsheets, however I think there was something wrong with how I was interpreting the variables. I was getting some pretty strange results (negative volumes, answers...
I found a solution to a similar problem on an old thread but couldn't work the procedure to correctly solve my problem. Any help with the following problem would be greatly appreciated.
I have an underground pipe system that will be used for storage and would like to assemble a stage storage...
