Steps for Running RDII Analyst in H2OMap SWMM

Steps for Running RDII Analyst in H2OMap SWMM

Step 1.  Create the RTK UH in the H2OMap SWMM Attribute Browser (AB)

Step 2. Assign the RTK UH to a node (you need one node at least to Run RDII Analyst).

Step 3.  Open up RDII Analyst and Set up the Node for the Analysis

Step 4.  Select a Node

Step 5.  Define the Flow Data

Step 6.  Define the Rainfall Data

Step 7.  Calculate the DWF and GW flow

Step 8.  Calculate the Wet Weather flow – Flow minus Dry Weather Flow

Step 9.  Set up the RDII GA Run

Step 10.  The RDII Calibration Result

Step 11.  Export RTK parameters back to H2Omap SWMM

Runoff Surface Suggestions for Future #SWMM5 's and #SWMM6

Runoff Surface Suggestions for Future #SWMM5 's and #SWMM6

As almost everyone knows about SWMM runoff surfaces there are three (non snowmelt) related surfaces in SWMM 1 to SWMM 5:

1. Impervious with depression storage, evaporation and no infiltration
2. Pervious with depression storage, evaporation, infiltration, with infiltration connecting to groundwater,
3. Impervious without depression storage, no infiltration, evaporation.  This was used to simulate fast runoff from gutters and roofs in the original SWMM 1.

SWMM4 and SWMM5 added pervious to impervious routing, impervious to pervious and Subcatchment to Subcatchment routing.  SWMM5 has further enhanced this feature by adding Low Impact Development (LID) for both pervious and impervious surfaces.

Newer versions of SWMM should expand the number of runoff surfaces from 3 to 10 and make each Surface have a flag for depression storage, flag for evaporation, flag for infiltration, a flag for groundwater, a flag for RDII, a flag for LID's and the ability to have different Widths and Slopes for each surface.   The existing SWMM runoff surfaces have different Manning's n, different depression storages but share the same Slope and Width which complicates reality and makes calibration more difficult.

Coding wise this would mean:
1. Complicating the import process for SWMM 5 files (perhaps a global flag for number of surfaces)
2. Expand Enums.h for SubAreaType
3. Increase the complexity of runoff linkages in Subcatch.C, RDII.C, Gwater.C and LID.C

enum  SubAreaType {
           IMPERV0,                         // impervious w/o depression storage
           IMPERV1,                         // impervious w/ depression storage
          PERV};                              // pervious

#SWMM 5 LID 185 message

Here are the soil layer rules for LID’s in SWMM5....  If any of these are wrong you will get an Error 185 message

Soil Porosity > Field Capacity > Wilting Point

    //... check soil layer parameters

    if ( LidProcs[j].soil.thickness >= 0.0; 0.0 )

    {

        if ( LidProcs[j].soil.porosity      <= 0.0 

        ||   LidProcs[j].soil.fieldCap      >= LidProcs[j].soil.porosity

        ||   LidProcs[j].soil.wiltPoint    >= LidProcs[j].soil.fieldCap

        ||   LidProcs[j].soil.kSat            <= 0.0

        ||   LidProcs[j].soil.kSlope       <= 0.0 )

EPA is happy to announce the publication of Volume II of the #SWMM Reference Manual (Hydraulics)

Hello Everyone (from the @CHI SWMM List Server),

EPA is happy to announce the publication of Volume II of the SWMM Reference Manual (Hydraulics).  It can be viewed and downloaded from the EPA SWMM web page:
https://www.epa.gov/water-research/storm-water-management-model-swmm#documents

This completes the full set of reference manuals for SWMM 5 that also includes Volume I (Hydrology) and Volume III (Water Quality and LID).  We hope that these manuals allow SWMM users to gain a better understanding of the computational methods and techniques used by the program.

These volumes were completed by Dr. Lewis A. Rossman, EPA Emeritus.  In his extraordinary career, he has written three remarkable EPA public domain programs:  SWMM, the National Stormwater Calculator (https://www.epa.gov/water-research/national-stormwater-calculator which is based on SWMM),  and EPANET (https://www.epa.gov/water-research/epanet).   Since 2010, SWMM and EPANET have been downloaded at least 215,000 and 370,000 times and are the basis of many multi-billion, multi-year water infrastructure upgrades.  The codes are easy-to-use, relatively bug-free, and well-documented.  This last volume of the reference manual completes the documentation of SWMM.

Thanks, Lew, and thanks to all of you for your continued interest and support of SWMM.

Michelle Simon. Ph.D., P.E.
EPA Office of Research and Development
Water Systems Division
Associate Director of Science
Cincinnati, OH 45268

Suggestions for LIDs, SuDs, WSuDs in #SWMM5 #SWMM

There should be a way to specify pollutant removal for each LID. Here are other suggestions for LIDs, SuDs, WSuDs in SWMM5:

1.  Removal equations for BMP's as in EPA / Tetra Tech Sustain,

2.  An extra field to indicate whether a LID was in the impervious area or pervious area.  As i have documented for years in my twitter feed, LID's can be anywhere and of any size.  This extra field would be a way to better automate the calculation of NON LID area in the SWMM5 engine,

3.  The percent capture of impervious area should be both the way it is now and by LID unit.  For example, 0.1 percent of the impervious area goes to one rain garden.  This would help optimizers such as Innovyze Sustain.

4.  SWMM 5 should have more than 3 to 4 runoff surfaces.  The 4th is for snowmelt.  This will help to have different soil characteristics per runoff pervious area. It would really help to have more than two types of impervious surface and one pervious runoff surface. 5. It would also be good to have the ability to have more than one type of infiltration per simulation.  It is handy to be able to use horton, green ampt and  CN in the same model.   InfoSWMM has this ability.

6.  For treatment train ability an LID should be able to drain or overflow to another LID in the same Subcatchment instead of making the downstream LID cover the whole Subcatchment.

7.  More  later or from this blog if you interestedhttps://swmm5.org/2017/04/17/swmm5-simple-100-mm-rainfall-model-for-lid-modeling-part-1/

Workflow in InfoSWMM Sustain