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  1. bltseattle

    Small Peak Runoff

    In some jurisdictions if you disperse roof runoff onto pervious ground surface or with drywells it can be considered disconnected impervious area and would be modeled as pervious, and your calculated site runoff may show no difference in pre- and post-developed for the 13-acre property.
  2. bltseattle

    Small Peak Runoff

    Read regs/drainage code carefully, it is either a change in impervious surface area or change in runoff rate that triggers detention requirements, typically. If your project is below those thresholds, then detention would not be required.
  3. bltseattle

    Modeling amended soil swales to consider infiltration.

    The HEC-HMS program allows you to route flow through a conveyance with an infiltration rate defined for the bottom surface.
  4. bltseattle

    Backflow Prevention Large Diameter Storm Sewer

    .... or tideflex www.tideflex.com
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    Stormwater Inlet Grate - Clogging Efficiencies

    Here are other factors that fall under "engineering judgement", for consideration along with the regulatory requirements: 1. Are you in a "sump"/"sag" condition - if yes, use a higher factor than you would on a continuous grade. 2. You can also look at the tributary area for potential sources...
  6. bltseattle

    Best way to model inlets of curb-cut raingarden retrofit streets?

    There are different ways and no obvious "best way". It sounds like you need a hydrograph for the road subbasin that has the rain gardens, and that the curb cut itself does not need to be modeled explicitly.... In municipalities that use TR-55/curve number methods, the storage of "IMPs" can be...
  7. bltseattle

    Silt Pollution

    Get your base course down asap. Asphalt treated base is not erosion prone. Perhaps the work should be scheduled so as to not have the grading occur too far ahead of the installation of base course materials. Also Consider: polyacrylamide (PAM) or tackifier applied to disturbed soils to hold...
  8. bltseattle

    Significant Digits

    Here is a VBA function I put together for this purpose because I didn't like the built-in options. Open the VBA editor and paste this into a module. Then you can use the formula in your worksheet: =SIGFIG(number_to_be_rounded, Number_sig_digits) If the format of the cell that this formula...
  9. bltseattle

    Curve number for large gravel area

    Check if it's in the city/county or state drainage manual/guidelines. If not, you could use the TR-55 values: Gravel (including right-of-way), HSG A/B/C/D RCN = 76 85 89 91 respectively
  10. bltseattle

    Free contour maps

    Try www.terraserver-usa.com
  11. bltseattle

    Outlet Control Structures (square vs. circular)

    The standard around here is round flow control structures. See http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Design/Standards/Plans.htm#SectionB B-10.40 and B-10.60 Large projects often require custom structures, which could be cast-in-place or precast vaults with internal weirs, baffles, orifices added.
  12. bltseattle

    Calculate d/D ratio in spreadsheet

    Try using lookup tables. I found this much simpler to set up than trying to use a precise formula to find d/D. You can find all the values you should need from Appendix E: Area, Wetted Perimeter and Hydraulic Radius of Partially Filled Circular Pipes in the Civil Engineering Refernce Manual...
  13. bltseattle

    Clay Liners and Geosynthetic Liners for Pond Bottoms

    Ideas: For clay based liner, ask your geotech and/or look for SCS/NRCS specs/instruction for farm fire/irrigation ponds. For geosynthetic, check with manufacturer. Bentomat claymax is a roll-out clay liner that can self-heal, worth considering too.
  14. bltseattle

    Storm Intensity in Relation to Area

    This is not something I typically deal with due to small project areas and really wide storm fronts here, but I learned at a modeling class in Denver that this precise issue is addressed in the Colorado Urban Hydrograph Procedures and technical manuals from the Urban Drainage & Flood Control...
  15. bltseattle

    Pervious Concrete

    TSGRUE points out potential concerns - but that doesn't mean that all those factors apply to each site, and to each paving system. Many of the clogging issues can be resolved by using appropriate source controls (cover stockpiles and storage areas, provide TESC during grading and earthwork...
  16. bltseattle

    Storm Sewer Design + Tailwaters

    mbherlihy, It seems to me that you are presuming that you have a "design storm" type event with a single peak. In reality storms often have several peaks, so there could be another intense 5-minute downpour at some time after the initial peak. It is difficult to get a handle on without a...
  17. bltseattle

    rain water for gray water use

    The treatment standards for rainwater typically come from local health departments - if there are national standards I've not been able to find them. For indoor non-potable use typically the rainwater is filtered prior to being put into the distribution system, which is often must be labeled as...
  18. bltseattle

    Intellisolve's Hydraflow VS Engenious StormSHED

    Stormshed accounts for tailwater conditions, as I recall, which would yield lower pipe capacities than free-flowing pipe outlets - especially since you have some very flat pipes (S<0.5%)
  19. bltseattle

    macro for selected cells only

    Another alternative to consider, you could name each range of cells in the worksheet using Excel's insert>names menu. (Say you call it "my_range"). Excel VBA will recognize names from your worksheet in the procedure. Then in the macro, instead of select.range("c1:c25") in the macro, you could...
  20. bltseattle

    hydraulic design of stilllling basin recieving discharge from pipe flo

    FHWA document HEC-14 provides design guidance, curves, charts, etc needed to size various types of energy dissipators.

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