World-Renowned Urban Drainage Modeling Authority Robert Dickinson Joined Innovyze in January, 2008

Broomfield, Colorado USA, January 16, 2008/altered 2014

2008/2014 Robert E. Dickinson, one of the world’s leading experts in wastewater and urban drainage modeling, has joined Innovyze as Product Sector Leader. Dickinson, who comes to the company from CDM now CDMSmith, will be charged with maintaining, enhancing and supporting Innovyze's flagship SWMM5-based product line (InfoSWMM and H2OMAP SWMM as well as the GIS based InfoSewer and H2OMap Sewer), which are some of the industry’s leading wastewater and urban drainage systems design and modeling software. He will also be responsible for coordinating vital collaborative research and technology transfer with key universities and government organizations as well as developing business strategies that advance Innovye’s overall growth objectives in wastewater and stormwater systems management and heighten its initiatives in both U.S. and international markets.

Mr. Dickinson brings over thirty-five years of experience in software development and management of wastewater and stormwater planning and design projects to Innovyze. A principal developer of the industry-standard and FEMA-certified SWMM5 software, he has a distinguished background in computational hydraulics and high level simulation programming. He holds an M.E. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainsville.

“We are thrilled to bring Robert’s formidable talents and expertise to our company,” said Innovyze's President and COO Paul Boulos. “As one of the world’s leading experts in hydraulic and hydrologic modeling, he has made significant contributions to the field of water resources engineering. His unique combination of proven project engineering expertise, management skills and high-level technical capabilities is coveted in our industry.

“A number of factors make Robert the ideal leader to help Innovyze advance the state-of-the-art in dynamic sewer network modeling and spearhead the continued development of our SWMM5-based products family. They include his impressive record of leadership, impeccable reputation, key role in the USEPA Storm Water Management Model (SWMM5) redevelopment program, strong expertise in both numerical methods and hydrology/hydraulics, and in-depth knowledge of the wastewater industry.

“While he will be based in Tampa, Florida, Robert will work closely with our product development team and our clients as we step up our efforts to help communities around the world manage urban runoff and wet weather water quality problems in combined, sanitary and storm sewers and protect the ecological health of our waterways.”

“I am truly excited to be joining Innovyze,” said Dickinson. “For the past five years, I have followed the company’s rapid growth and development of an impressive product portfolio. I have always admired Innovyze’s unparalleled technical expertise and its steadfast commitment to research, innovation, product quality and customer care. I believe a breakthrough approach to systems modeling is a critical key to helping communities better manage and operate their buried hydraulic infrastructures and protect the environment. I look forward to playing a pivotal role in advancing Innovyze’s comprehensive urban drainage design and modeling product line and maintaining its leadership in the global wastewater industry.”

2014 - That was fun - an update of an announcement from the past.  The original is on our website. I changed my name from Bob to Robert, the company name from MWHSoft to Innovyze and list my my actual job or jobs I have been doing at @Innovyze from 2008.  I left the title alone - sometimes it is best to have a goal in life and trying to achieve the title of the announcement is something I would like to approach in my remaining Innovyze years.  I probably will not reach it but I appreciate the mastery of the Paul Boulos announcements - he writes the most creative and wonderful press releases. You should subscribe to them from www.innovyze.com if you want to read about the future of water, sewer and stormwater.  A final mention of Alight Tsai who manages http://www.innovyze.com/ and is always helpful with great images for our software and help files.  I would be remiss if I did not mention our great R/D product development teams in Monrovia and Wallingford. I am proud to be a small part of the Monrovia team.  Other history mentions about SWMM3/4/5 in my past can be found here http://www.swmm5.net/2012/05/my-history-with-various-versions-of.html

Another update for May 2015 - we are making great strides in social media led by our Director of Marketing Rajan Ray who can be found at @InnovyzeRaj and in general at @Innovyze. You can see all of our tweets by searching for Innovyze on Twitter

My contact info - in case you need to call me, I prefer email however.

Robert Dickinson

Product Sector Leader (PSL) for Innovyze Inc.

Telephone:    813-712-0664 

Innovyze Links or Email Addresses that May Help You

My PSL Software and My Help for Other Software Or How I Can Help You

My Email robert.dickinson@innovyze.com Innnovye Support Email support@innovyze.com The Innovyze Blog http://blog.innovyze.com/ The Innovyze Forum http://forums.innovyze.com/forum.php How to Find Product Updates http://www.innovyze.com/products/ Innovyze on Twitter https://twitter.com/Innovyze Innovyze on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1424097 Innovyze on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Innovyze Best New Blog http://blog.innovyze.com/2014/11/30/advanced-calibration-graphs-and-advanced-reference-graphical-comparisons-in-infoswmm-13/ Innovyze Youtube Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/Innovyze/videos Read about Innovyze InfoWater winning the ArcGIS for Desktop Based Application category for the 2015 Esri Partner Conference Awards.  The Link to Future Innovyze Webcasts Are you interested in connecting with fellow Innovyze users?  Register for the Innovyze Users Forum, a customer-focused learning and sharing environment, and join in the discussion!

PSL: InfoSWMM , InfoSewer, H2OMAP SWMM, H2OMAP SEWER and InfoSWMM Suite, InfoSWMM Sustain, SWMMLive and InfoSWMM 2D Other : ICM, ICM SE, IWCS, SWMMLive, SWMM5,  InfoSWMM SFEM,, Any Other Innovyze Product (less) You can see all of our software on our catalog My Blog http://www.swmm5.net/ My Other Blog http://swmm5.org/ My Blog Finder http://swmm5code.ning.com/ My Forum http://swmm2000.com/ Latest InfoSWMM Press Release Innovyze Unveils InfoSWMM Sustain for Comprehensive Urban Stormwater Treatment and Analysis My Twitter https://twitter.com/RDickinson https://twitter.com/InnovyzeRobert Little Known Fact about InfoSWMM InfoSWMM 2D uses the ICM 2D hydraulic engine My Innovyze blogs http://blog.innovyze.com/category/infoswmm/ http://blog.innovyze.com/category/infosewer/ My Vimeo Videos https://vimeo.com/swmm5/videos My Youtube Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/SWMM5 A short history of my life with SWMM http://www.swmm5.net/2012/05/my-history-with-various-versions-of.html The Current InfoSWMM Version is InfoSWMM v13 SP1 Update #5 which is based on EPA SWMM 5.1.007  You can read about SWMM5 on Wikipedia  and InfoSWMM vs SWMM 5 on this blog post. An advantage of updating to the newer version of Info/Map/SWMM/Sewer is a newly designed help file with many more FAQ’s and the User Guide as part of the help file.

How to Model Water Quality Time Series in SWMM5

You can model water quality as a SWMM 5 inflow time series using the following steps:
1. Model Water Quality (TSS  for Example)
2. Add the needed inflow Time Series at a Node
3. Include both a Flow
4. and a TSS Time Series 
5. The TSS time Series is Concentration over time
The file at the bottom is an example of the TSS time series

Download the Sample File
Water%20Quality%20TS.inp

Read the Paul Boulos (CEO/Innovyze) Interview in Spring 2015 Kentucky Engineering Journal

Read the Paul Boulos (CEO/Innovyze) Interview in Spring 2015 Kentucky Engineering Journal http://t.co/mlykEF2yXy pic.twitter.com/6Hu8X0ynar
— Robert Dickinson (@InnovyzeRobert) April 26, 2015

A Box folder with more complicated SWMM 5 QA QC files

Note: I am going to add more complicated SWMM 5 file to this box location as I made them and find them.
Click on this link
https://app.box.com/s/uhyft6by6sgd0v91znjjv6juxr5v2l2t

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AAEES 2015 Innovyze Excellence in Computational Hydraulics/Hydrology Award Presented to Carnegie Mellon University Doctoral Student

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AAEES 2015 Innovyze Excellence in Computational Hydraulics/Hydrology Award Presented to Carnegie Mellon University Doctoral Student

Broomfield, Colorado, USA, April 23, 2015 — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for smart wet infrastructure, today announced that Amy Dale, a Ph.D. candidate pursuing a joint degree in the Departments of Engineering and Public Policy and Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, has been chosen to receive the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES) 2015 Innovyze Excellence in Computational Hydraulics/Hydrology Award. Amy’s publications related to her work include a recent Feature article in Environmental Science and Technology. Among her other achievements, Amy is a national 2010 Udall Scholar, a 2011 ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Scholar, a former NSF IGERT Fellow, and a current EPA STAR Graduate Research Fellow. She received a B.S. in Bioinformatics (summa cum laude) from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011. This prestigious annual award recognizes a student whose research contributes to the knowledge pool in the area of Computational Hydraulics & Hydrology. Selection is based on original, innovative research of publishable quality and other factors. Both Master's and Ph.D. students are eligible. Administered by AAEES and co-sponsored by Innovyze, the award consists of cash honoraria of $1,500 for the student and $500 for the major faculty advisor. A $500 travel allotment is also provided to the student recipient to attend the AAEES Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science Awards Luncheon. The award selection is administered jointly by a committee consisting of equal members of AAEES and the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP). “Innovyze is pleased to present this signal award to Ms. Dale,” said Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D., BCEEM, Hon.D.WRE,Dist.D.NE, Dist.M.ASCE, NAE, President, COO and Chief Technical Officer of Innovyze. “We are proud to further her future in this critical field, and play a small part in her efforts to make the world a better place through her work. On behalf of everyone at Innovyze, enthusiastic congratulations to her.”

About Innovyze Innovyze is a leading global provider of wet infrastructure business analytics software solutions designed to meet the technological needs of water and wastewater utilities, government agencies, and engineering organizations worldwide. Its clients include the majority of the largest UK, Australasia and North American cities, foremost utilities on all five continents, and ENR top-rated design firms. With unparalleled expertise and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the Innovyze connected portfolio of best-in-class product lines empowers thousands of engineers to competitively plan, manage, design, protect, operate and sustain highly efficient and reliable infrastructure systems, and provides an enduring platform for customer success. For more information, call Innovyze at +1 626-568-6868, or visit www.innovyze.com. ​ Innovyze Contact Rajan Ray Director of Marketing and Client Service Manager Rajan.Ray@innovyze.com +1 626 568-6868

How to change the Maximum Infiltration in a DB Table of InfoSWMM and H2OMAP SWMM

How to change the Maximum Infiltration in a DB Table of InfoSWMM and H2OMAP SWMM

 There are a lot of methods in InfoSWMM and H20MAP SWMM to change the infiltration data.  You have the ability to change it for

 1.      an individual Subcatchment using the Attribute Browser

2.      by soil type and

3.      the coverage of the soil over all of the Subcatchments – this will alter the areal weighted average of the infiltration data

 You have layers of infiltration data in the interface to your model data.  The infiltration parameters are defined per soil as in a real watershed and the Subcatchments will use the areal weighted infiltration values of all of the soils on the Subcatchment.  You get more flexibility and closer to the physical reality of the Subcatchment by having layers of soil on the Subcatchment rather than one set of infiltration per Subcatchment.  Of course if you set up one soil type per Subcatchment then you will have 100 percent coverage of the same infiltration set of parameters per Subcatchment.

 Method 1: An Individual Subcatchment by using the Attribute Browser

Method 3:  You can also change the overall Infiltration by changing the soil coverage of the Subcatchment using the Subcatchment Infiltration table.

Build SWMM 5.1.008 (04/02/2015) New Features with Images

SWMM 5.1.008 (04/02/2015) New Features

1.  Monthly adjustments for hydraulic conductivity used for
    rainfall infiltration and for exfiltration from storage
    nodes and conduits was added.

This was added to the Monthly Adjustments Table

//  Data formats are:

//    TEMPERATURE   v1 ... v12
//    EVAPORATION   v1 ... v12
//    RAINFALL      v1 ... v12
//    CONDUCTIVITY  v1 ... v12   

2.  LID drains can now send their outflow to a different node
    or subcatchment than the parent subcatchment in which they
    were placed.

drainSubcatch;  // subcatchment receiving drain flow    //(5.1.008)
 drainNode;      // node receiving drain flow                      //(5.1.008)

3.  Conveyance system Outfall nodes now have the option to
    send their outflow onto a subcatchment, to simulate
    irrigation or complex LID treatment options.

        // --- add outfall's flow to subcatchment as runon and re-set routed
        //     flow volume to 0
        subcatch_addRunonFlow(k, Outfall[i].vRouted/tStep);
        massbal_updateRunoffTotals(RUNOFF_RUNON, Outfall[i].vRouted);
        Outfall[i].vRouted = 0.0;

4.  A new LID practice, Rooftop Disconnection, has been added.
    It allows one to explicitly model roof runoff with an
    optional limit on the flow capacity of their downspouts.
    Disconnection is specified by setting the Return To Pervious
    Area field in the [LID_USAGE] section to 1. 

8 Types of LID's In SWMM 5,1.008

5.  An optional soil layer has been added to Permeable Pavement or Porous Pavment LID's so that a sand filter or bedding layer beneath the
    pavement can be modeled.

LID Layers in SWMM 5,1,008

    
6.  Several new built-in variable names can now be used in
    custom groundwater flow equations for porosity, unsaturated
    hydraulic conductivity, infiltration rate, and percolation
    rate. See the Help file for more details.

GWvariables {
      gwvHGW,                  // water table height (ft)
         gwvHSW,                       // surface water height (ft)
         gwvHCB,                       // channel bottom height (ft)                 //(5.1.007)
         gwvHGS,                       // ground surface height (ft)                  //(5.1.007)
         gwvKS,                         // sat. hyd. condutivity (ft/s)                    //(5.1.007)
         gwvTHETA,                     // upper zone moisture content         //(5.1.008)
         gwvK,                         // unsat. hyd. conductivity (ft/s)               //(5.1.008)
         gwvPHI,                       // soil porosity                                           //(5.1.008)
         gwvFI,                        // surface infiltration (ft/s)                      //(5.1.008)
         gwvFU,                        // soil percolation (ft/s)                          //(5.1.008)
         gwvA,                         // subcatchment area (ft2)                      //(5.1.008)
         gwvMAX};

7.  A Groundwater Summary table has been added that reports 
    several groundwater statistics for each subcatchment.

"\n                                                       Total    Total  Maximum  Average  Average    Final    Final"
"\n                          Total    Total    Lower  Lateral  Lateral       Upper    Water    Upper    Water"
"\n                          Infil     Evap  Seepage  Outflow  Outflow   Moist.    Table      Moist.    Table");

8.  A new option, the Minimum Variable Time Step, was added that
    limits the smallest time step that can be computed under
    variable time stepping for dynamic wave flow routing. In
    previous releases it was fixed at 0.5 seconds which remains
    the default. The smallest value it can now have is 0.001 sec.

9.  The dynamic wave routing procedure was parallelized to take
    advantage of multiple processors, making it run several times
    faster. A new option, THREADS, sets the number of parallel
    threads to use, where the default is 1.

       

10. A new column was added to the Node Depth Summary report table
    that shows the maximum depth recorded at the Reporting Time Step
    so it can be compared to the maximum depth attained over all
    routing time steps also shown in the table.

"\n                                 Average  Maximum  Maximum  Time of Max    Reported"
"\n                                   Depth    Depth      HGL   Occurrence   Max Depth");

11. Control rule premises can now contain conditions that compare
    the values of a node or link variable at two different locations
    (e.g. IF NODE 123 HEAD and NODE 456 HEAD) and node volume was
    added as a condition clause variable.

//  - Support added for r.h.s. variables in rule premises.
//  - Node volume added as a premise variable.

Modeling of Phosphorus Dynamics in Lake Okeechobee

Modeling of Phosphorus Dynamics in Lake Okeechobee 

Here is a downloadable PDF File

 Modeling of Phosphorus dynamics of Lake Okeechobee

Modeling of Phosphorus Dynamics in Lake Okeechobee[/caption]

l Now at WP Software, 8-10 Purdue St., Belconnen, A.C.T. 2617, Australia
2 Now at Dept. of Civil Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-2302

Huber Nato Water Quality Paper about Water Quality in SWMM4

Huber Nato  Water Quality Paper about Water Quality in SWMM4 

 Huber1986NATO-Part2

Huber1986NATO

URBAN RAINFALL-RUNOFF-QUALITY DATA BASE ADDENDUM 1: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND ADDITIONAL DATA

URBAN RAINFALL-RUNOFF-QUALITY DATA BASE  ADDENDUM 1: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND ADDITIONAL DATA

A three part PDF file containing data from the 1970's and Early 1980's

                               Urban Water Quality DB[/caption]

  Urban Rainfall Runoff Quality Database Addendum1_Part3
  Urban Rainfall Runoff Quality Database Addendum1_Part2
Urban Rainfall Runoff Quality Database Addendum1

SWMM 4 Manual and PDF File

This is just so I can find this using Google Search in the Future

 SWMM 4 Manual and PDF File

swmm4manuals 

SWMM4 Manuals[/caption]

SWMM 3 Manual and PDF File

This is just so I can find this using Google Search in the Future

 SWMM 3 Manual and PDF File

SWMM3_Manual


                                        SWMM 3 Manual and PDF File[/caption]

Master’s Thesis: Demonstration of Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty Analysis, and Calibration in Modelling of a Combined Sewer System Nimmer Zaman Master’s Thesis January 2014

A link to a PDF file showing the Water Quality for ICM and SWMM 5 in a case study in Germany.

 Master's Thesis: Demonstration of Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty Analysis, and Calibration in Modelling of a Combined Sewer System 
Nimmer Zaman
Master’s Thesis
January 2014

  Nimmer Zaman Master's Thesis

QA/QC Process for the Import of an XP-SWMM model to InfoWorks ICM

The following section shows how the XP-SWMM file (MyXP.XP) was converted to an ICM 6 model using the ICM SWMM 6 import tools.

The XP-SWMM model was converted to ICM 6 using a combination of the import process in ICM of a SWMM5 input file (MySWMM5File.INP ) and an Extensive QA/QC process using the .XP file of XP-SWMM (MyXP.XP). Figure 1 shows how the file MySWMM5File.INP looks inside of SWMM 5.1. Figure 2 shows the model summary of the file MySWMM5File.INP which was exported in SWMM 5 format from XP-SWMM. Figure 3 shows the Import process in ICM for any SWMM5 file. Figure 4 show how the file MySWMM5File.INP looks like ICM after the Import. Figure 5 shows the element summary in ICM of the imported file MyXP.XP. The number of links, nodes, Subcatchments and diversions match the input file and the summary shown in Figure 2. There are approximately 7000 nodes, links, diversions and Subcatchments in the model.

After import into ICM the imported data was checked using the Network Validation tool (Figure 6). If there were any import errors a log file would have been created. However, all data imported without errors and the log file was blank for ICM 6 import. ICM has many more node and link parameters than in XP-SWMM so there are some validation errors. The validation errors are shown in Figure 7 and are related to the node of ICM needing chamber, ground and flood levels. You can click on the warning message as shown in Figure 8 to bring up the node grid so that the few validation errors can be fixed. As a further check the .XP file was used to check any ICM Validation Messages as shown in Figure 9.

The import tool in ICM does not import the Rainfall or DWF patterns from the SWMM5 file. The hyetographs and DWF patterns have to be separately copied and pasted from the SWMM5 file to the Rainfall Event CSV file and Waste Water Patter CSV file in ICM. Figure 10 shows the DWF Patterns used in the file MySWMM5File.INP . Figure 11 shows the cumulative Rainfall Hyetographs used in the file MySWMM5File.INP . The Rainfall hyetograph have to be converted to rainfall intensity and multiplied by the storm event total as defined in the file MyXP.XP  The rainfall totals for the 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 year storm events are shown in Figure 12. Figure’s 13 and 14 show the DWF Pattern and ICM Rainfall Event corresponding to the values shown in Figures 10 and 11, respectively. The connection between the Pattern and Rainfall CSV files and the imported network in ICM is illustrated in Figure 15.

The XP-SWMM model in SWMM 5 format has many irregular natural channels modeled as prismatic HEC-RAS transects. Figure 16 shows an example transect view. The imported network in ICM has these transects as channels with a shape named after the transect (Figure 17). The channels can be either used as channel in ICM or converted to a River Reach with 2D connection using the ICM Channel/River Reach conversion tool (Figure 18).

Figure 1. How the MySWMM5File.INP looks inside of SWMM5

The three types of runoff surfaces in the XP-SWMM model are imported with the physical data on the Subcatchment Tab. Examples of the physical data are the slope, width, Subcatchment area and percent imperviousness for each Subcatchment (Figure 19). The Impervious surface with depression storage is imported as a Fixed Runoff Volume Type with a non-zero initial loss and the SWMM Routing Model. The Impervious surface without depression storage is imported as a Fixed Runoff Volume Type with a zero initial loss and the SWMM Routing Model. The pervious surface with depression storage is imported as a Green-Ampt Runoff Volume Type with a non-zero initial loss and the SWMM Routing Model. The three types of runoff surface can be seen on the Runoff Tab of the Subcatchment Grid.

Figure 2. MySWMM5File.INP File Summary

Figure 3. The tools use to import the file MySWMM5File.INP to ICM.

Figure 4. How the file MySWMM5File.INP looks like ICM after Import.

Figure 5. Summary of the file MySWMM5File.INP after import into ICM.

Figure 6. The Network Validation Tool checks the imported file for data errors.

Figure 7. Import Data Errors are shown in Output.

Figure 8. Click on Warning Message and the location is shown on the screen.

Figure 9. The XP file was used to check any ICM Validation Messages.

Figure 10. The DWF Patterns from XP-SWMM as they look in SWMM5

Figure 11. The Rainfall Hyetograph in XP-SWMM.

Figure 12. The 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 year Storm Totals used In XP-SWMM.

Figure 13. The Copied DWF Patterns from XP-SWMM in ICM.

Figure 14. The Converted Hyetograph as it looks in the ICM Rainfall Event.

Figure 15. Imported XP-SWMM Network, Rainfall and DWF Patterns in ICM.

Figure 16. Prismatic Channel Transects in XP-SWMM.

Figure 17. Imported Transects from XP-SWMM are Channel Shapes in ICM.

Figure 19. The XP-SWMM Hydrology is imported as Fixed or Green-Ampt for Impervious and Pervious Areas.

Figure 18. You can convert the Channels to River Reaches with Banks and 2D connections using the Channel to River Reach Tool.