Drainage Wells or a Vertical Exfiltration Trench in InfoSWMM

Subject:  Drainage Wells or a Vertical Exfiltration Trench in InfoSWMM

 

Note, this is just one way to model an Exfiltration Trench.  The source for the image below is Rice Creek Watershed

 

You can make a storage node to simulate the trench with the following characteristics:

 

·         Functional or Shape Curve to describe the shape of the trench,

·         Infiltration parameters to simulate the infiltration flow out of the bottom or sides of the trench,

 

 

 

Step 1:  Define the shape and geometrical characteristics of the Infiltration Trench

 

 

Step 2: Define the soil infiltration characteristics of the trench

 

 

Step 3:  Run the simulation.  The Storage Volume Summary tells you the volume infiltrated and the average outflow.

 

 

Step 4:  Output Manager will also show the infiltration  outflow, the depth and the volume of the infiltration/storage node.

 

 

Step 4:    Infiltration losses out the side and bottom of the orifice.

 

 

via Blogger http://www.swmm5.net/2013/07/drainage-wells-or-vertical-exfiltration.html

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Storm/Sewer Modeler with a 45 yr association with EPASWMM. Now at Autodesk supporting InfoWorks ICM_SWMM Founder http://robertdickinson.org, Chair/TAC at http://CIMM.ORG

robert.dickinson@gmail.com

Storm/Sewer Modeler with a 45 yr association with EPASWMM. Now at Autodesk supporting InfoWorks ICM_SWMM

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