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United States
Environmental Protection
Agency

EPA/600/R - 14/4 13b
Revised September 2015
www2.epa.gov/ water-research

Storm Water Management Model

User’s Manual Version 5.

Office of Research and Development
Water Supply and Water Resources Division

EPA- 600 /R-14/413b
Revisied September 2015

Storm Water Management Model User’s Manual Version 5. by… Read the rest

EPA/600/R-16/093 | July 2016 |
www.epa.gov/water-research United States Enviromental Protection Agency Storm Water Management Model Reference Manual Volume III – Water Quality Office of Research and Development Water Supply and Water Resources Division

EPA/600/R-16/093 July 2016

Storm Water Management Model Reference Manual Volume III – Water Quality By: Lewis A.

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How to Use Arc Map Selection to add to Domains in #InfoSewer and #InfoSWMM:

1. Use the Arc Map Selection Tools
2. Select a layer of Nodes or Links in Arc Map
3. Add your elements to the Arc Map Selection and finally
4. Add the selected elements from Arc Map to the InfoSewer

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Time Control (RTC) Rule Editor

InfoSWMM and InfoSWMM SA offer an advanced RTC rule that could be used to effectively simulate the operation of pumps and flow regulating structures such as weirs, orifices, and outlets. Unlike Simple Controls, RTC rules allow for the creation of multiple conditions to be … Read the rest

Animation Methodology

To create a New Animation do the following:

Execute (run) InfoSWMM model and make sure that your Output Status icon () has light green color.

Launch the Map Display manager by clicking on the Map Display icon on your InfoSWMMH2OMap SWMM Control Center Toolbar Standard Toolbar . … Read the rest

How to create an output relate which can identify in the domain pipes that exceed a specific Adjusted d/D ratio. This may be useful for you to more easily find these in the Map:

If you create a query. I called mine Backwater but I could have better called it … Read the rest

How to Make Break Nodes in #INFOSWMM and #InfoSWMM SA

You would add a break node to break up long force mains so that the pipe(s) react faster to the pump flows.

1. Find your long FM or long  Gravity Main links
2. Insert a Node into the middle of the link

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Tutorial 2 Optimizing Rain Barrels for Sustain 4.0

This example shows the importance of a treatment train, the percent imperious draining to the LID’s on a Subcatchment, the importance of optimizing for the number of units, area and soil thickness. Sustain will optimize the number of Rain Barrels on the … Read the rest

Tutorial 1 Creating a Simple Green Roof Optimization for Sustain 4.0

In Tutorial 1 we will use the Siting Manager to Site Green Roof LID Types for later Optimization and Export to the InfoSWMM LID Usage DB Table. Tutorial 1 is designed for first-time users of InfoSWMM Sustain and provides … Read the rest

A Markdown Experiment – Flow Chart of EPA SWMM to InfoSWMM and InfoSWMM SA:

“`mermaid
graph LR
A[EPA SWMM] — Import –> B((InfoSWMM SA))
A –> C(InfoSWMM)
B –> D{InfoSWMM Engine}
C –> D

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InfoSWMM Student Analysis and Design Workbook

Contents

1.0 Introduction. 5

1.1 Manual Overview.. 5

1.2 InfoSWMM Software Capabilities. 5

2.0 Basic Concepts and Principles. 7

2.1 General Flow Characteristics. 7

2.1.1 Conservation of Mass. 7

2.1.2 Conservation of Energy. 8

2.1.2 Conservation of Momentum.. 8

2.2 Summary of Basic Hydrodynamic … Read the rest

Note:  This is a Markdown experiment using EPA Documents and other documents that were originally PDF files, converted to DOCX files and then converted to Markdown HTML code.

EPA/600/R-13/085c | Revised September 2014 | www2.epa.gov/research

National Stormwater Calculator User’s Guide

Before After

Office of Research and Development

National Risk Management

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A Toolbox for Sanitary Sewer Overflow Analysis and Planning (SSOAP) and Applications

Fu-hsiung Lai1, Srinivas Vallabhaneni2, Carl Chan2, Edward H. Burgess3, Richard Field1

1U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Risk Management Research Laboratory,

Urban Watershed Management Branch, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue (MS-104), Edison, NJ

2Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc., Indianapolis, IN

3Camp … Read the rest

United States Office of Research EPA/600/R-08/010

Environmental Protection and Development January 2008

Agency Washington, DC 20460

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Review of Sewer Design

Criteria and RDII Prediction

Methods

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EPA/600/R-08/010 January 2008

Review of Sewer Design Criteria and RD

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Prediction Methods

By

Fu-hsiung (Dennis) Lai… Read the rest

Hello Visitor (and thank you for visiting!, I appreciate it!).  If you have any questions or ideas to share, please contact me at robert.dickinson@gmail.com. If you are, like me, passionate about hydrology/hydraulics machine learning/data science, please feel free to add me on LinkedIn or follow me on Twitter.

You … Read the rest

New Features in Innovyze SWMM 14.6

1. New Laurenson Runoff Hydrology

1. New Laurenson Runoff Hydrology

2. Conduit Cross Section View in the Attribute Browser

3. Profile View on the Map

4. Manhole Inlet View in the Attribute Browser

5. Background Mas in InfoSWMM SA

6. Highlight an Element in a … Read the rest

New Features in Innovyze SWMM 14.6 Update 1

Added missing conduit type to RTC tables in DB Editor.

Added the ability to use H2S in the SWMM5 Treatment Equations even though H2S is an internal variable in InfoSWMM

Fixed an issue about importing OUTLET Link Tabular/Head features into InfoSWMM SA.

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How to Extract the Engine SWMM5 Calculated Slope in InfoSWMM. The slope is a calculated value in SWMM5.

Please see this other blog for the slope calculations in SWMM5

https://swmm5.org/2011/01/20/swmm-5-slope-rules-2/

Step 1 – Run the model

Step 2 – Load the Conduit Summary Table

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An easy test for SWMM5 versions using the Status Report Message for Unrecognized Keywords in past SWMM5 GUI

SWMM 5.1.012 reading SWMM 5.1.013 Inp Files

SWMM 5.1.011 reading SWMM 5.1.013 Inp Files

SWMM 5.1.010 reading SWMM 5.1.013 Inp Files

SWMM 5.1.009 reading SWMM 5.1.013 Inp Files

SWMM 5.1.008 reading SWMM … Read the rest

SWMM 5.1 Update History

New SWMM 5.1.013 is now available http://t.co/v8QVy5c3UI

Build 5.1.013 (05/10/18)

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Engine Updates:

1. A subcatchment’s depression storage depth, its pervious surface roughness

(Mannings n) and its hydraulic conductivity can now be adjusted on a

monthly basis by assigning monthly time patterns to these properties.

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A few blogs on Force Mains and Pumps in InfoSWMM and InfoSewer:

The all-important Break Node

https://swmm5.org/2015/02/08/how-to-make-a-break-node-in-swmm5-and-infoswmm-for-force-mains/

Basic Rules

https://swmm5.org/2015/02/07/pump-and-force-main-system-in-infoswmm/

https://swmm5.org/2013/07/28/pump-force-main-system-in-infoswmm-and-swmm-5/

https://swmm5.org/2016/09/15/a-visual-look-at-a-series-of-hw-force-mains-in-infoswmm-and-swmm5/

https://swmm5.org/2013/12/26/rules-for-force-mains-in-infosewer-and-h2omap-sewer/

https://swmm5.org/2016/09/04/pumps-in-infosewer-and-h20map-sewer/

https://swmm5.org/2018/04/08/how-to-force-swmm5-to-use-only-the-wet-well-area-for-a-pump/

Siphons

https://swmm5.org/2013/08/10/siphon-simulation-in-swmm-5-and-infoswmm/

https://swmm5.org/2016/09/05/siphon-modeling-in-infosewer-and-arc-map/

Hazen Williams

https://swmm5.org/2013/10/06/hazen-williams-and-force-mains-in-swmm-5/

Force Mains

https://swmm5.org/2013/08/09/what-are-the-types-of-force-mains-fm-in-swmm-5/

https://swmm5.org/2013/08/04/comparison-of-the-h2omap-swmm5-hazen-williams-force-main-solution-to-a-hw-solution/

https://swmm5.org/2015/02/08/advanced-force-main-solution-and-gravity-main-attenuation-in-infosewer-for-better-pump-force-main-gravity-main-simulations/

Theory behind FM Transitions

https://swmm5.org/2013/08/05/force-main-friction-loss-in-infoswmm-and-the-transition-from-partial-to-full-flow/

Pump Summary Table

https://swmm5.org/2013/08/10/infoswmm-pump-summary-table/

RTC Rules

https://swmm5.org/2016/09/26/setting-controls-for-the-pump-and-orifice-in-infoswmm-and-swmm5/

https://swmm5.org/2013/08/03/how-to-see-the-effect-of-the-pump-setting-in-the-rtc-rules-of-infoswmm-and-h20map-swmm/

https://swmm5.org/2016/09/05/real-time-control-rtc-rule-editor-in-infoswmm-for-swmm5-control-rules/… Read the rest

Import a SWMM5 INP File to InfoSWMM and InfoSWMM SA

Steps to Import SWMM 5 to InfoSWMM and InfoSWMM SA

A import the SWMM 5 File using Exchange

B Select the SWMM 5 INP file

C Update the Map by using the Utility Update Map from DB / Force All … Read the rest

A note for those trying to find past Legacy SWMM 3 and SWMM4 Fortran Code and Engines.

You can contact me at robert.dickinson or at red and I will make you an Editor of this Box Account:

https://app.box.com/folder/51591545827

Thanks, Robert Dickinson

NCIMM ( Center for Infrastructure Modeling and Management)

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InfoSewer versus InfoSWMM versus ICM

A short comparison of the features in InfoSWMM, ICM and InfoSewer. Many of the same rows apply to, InfoSWMM SA, InfoSewer SA and H2OMap Sewer.

Feature Class	Feature	InfoSewer	InfoSWMM	ICM
Base Functionality	Conservative Solution as an option
	Public Domain engine
	Calibrate model to flow

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The Connections between Innovyze Products and SWMM5

The relationship between the Various InfoSWMM, H2OMap SWMM and InfoSWMM SA Versions and SWMM5

The relationship between ICM, ICM SE, InfoSWMM, InfoSewer, H2OMap Sewer, and SWMM5. InfoSWMM can import , SWMM5, H2OMap Sewer, InfoSewer can export to ICM_SE or ICM using the … Read the rest