Thank you Peter. I know this is a misapplication of the Rational Method but no amount of explanation on my part can get the reviewer to change is opinion. His exact quote was "In 35 years of reviewing storm water designs, I've never seen it done this way." He is being irrational about the...
All the municipalities that I work in have adopted a new common Stormwater Management Ordinance that was pushed upon them by our State's DEP. One of the requirements for using the Rational Method is to have the length of the ascending leg of the hydrograph equal to 3 times Tc and the descending...
