I am a civil engineer working for a local municipality. As a part of our land development infrastructure requirements, we require rebar in all public curb and gutter sections. Generally, the requirement is three #4 bars located 3" from the bottom, and spaced evenly through the gutter pan. The...
I have long suspected that the Atlas 14 data for my community is potentially overestimated. Our City's stormwater ordinance requires 2-, 10-, & 100-yr, 24-hour detention.
I have taken 122 years worth of rainfall data from a NOAA recognized gauge in our community which provides 24-hour rainfall...
How would one calculate, for example, how many times a 2-year storm should occur in a 100-year period from a statistical viewpoint?
That is not to say what is the likelihood a 2-year event would occur in a 100-year period; that calculation is relatively straight forward and widely published...
