LD15697 - Get Real: Using AutoCAD Civil 3D & Storm

and Sanitary Analysis to Prepare EPA SWMM Models

Robert Ward
Environmental Designer

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 Class summary

 By the end of this class you will know how to

use Civil3D with freely available GIS data to
build an EPA SWMM model from the ground
up for projects located anywhere in the world,
including hacks for open channels,
bioretention cells, infiltration trenches, and
more.

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 Key learning objectives

At the end of this class, you will be able to:

 Organize and manage GIS to CAD to SWMM data workflows
 Draft and model open channel networks
 Draft, calculate, and model SWMM subasins
 Design, calculate, and model BMPs

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 1.0 Introduction

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 1.1 About Your Speaker

LEED AP
Civil 3D Certified Professional
Revit Certified Professional
Revit Structure Certified Professional
Revit MEP Certified Professional
ArcGIS 10.3 Certified Professional
10+ years in Design-Engineering Field
7+ years in China
Adjunct Faculty at Tongji University
Published in academic journals

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 1.2 About Hyphae Design Lab
Hyphae (pl. noun): The fine, weblike, branching tubes which make up
the body (or mycelium) of a multicellular fungus, responsible for
symbiotically sharing nutrients between soil and plants.

The Hyphae Design Laboratory is

an ecological engineering and
design firm dedicated to creating
an innovative green infrastructure.

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 1.3 Esalen Institute

Esalen was founded to fully realize

what Aldous Huxley had called the
"human potentialities". Through
the years, Esalen became the
center of the New Age movement.
-wikipedia

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 2.0 Hydrology Overview

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 2.1 Why is this so difficult challenging

“Stormwater management is as
much an art as a science,
requiring judgement in the use of
available data and calculations”
-Timesaver Standards For Landscape Architecture

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 2.2 Hydrology

SPACE + TIME + MASS

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 2.3 Rainfall to Runoff Calculation

INPUT > TRANSFORM > OUTPUT

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 2.4 Routing
Routing is Combining Hydrographs

Two Options in SWMM:

- Kinematic Wave (approximate)
- Hydrodynamic (exact St-Venant)

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 2.5 Why SWMM?

Modified Rational
TR-55 SWAT
SWMM
UK Rational
MIKE11
TR-20
HEC-1 HEC-HMS
HEC-2
MODFLOW
Rational HSPF

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 3.0 Open Channels

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 3.1 The SSA Node Object

Ponded Area

Depth
Rim
Surcharge
Water Surface Elevation (WSEL) Initial

Invert

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 3.2 How Channel Sections Work

The Real World:

Section

What SSA “Sees”:

Junction

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 3.3 Live Demo!

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 4.0 Subasins

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 4.1 Subasins
Equivalent Width

Length
Area

Slope

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 4.2 Subasins Physical
Equivalent Width

SWMM Time Of Concentration Method:

Equivalent Width = (2-Skew)*L
Skew Factor = (A2-A1)/(A2+A1)
-SSA Manual p341

Area 1

Length
Area 2
Slope

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 4.3 Subasins Material
Material Properties
Loss: SCS Curve Number 0-98
Velocity: Manning’s n value 0-1
Paved Surface Fraction: 0-100%

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 4.4 GIS Data

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 4.5 Document Object Model
Keeps like files together Root Folder
“Toolspace” in Civil3D
“Plan View” in SSA
STM
Use folders to make your own
DOM SHP

SDF

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 4.6 Live Demo!

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 5.0 Best Management Practice

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 5.1 BMP to Storage Node
SWMM models what happens
between BMPs not what happens
inside BMPs

1. Design each BMP geometry

2. Volumetric calculations
3. Use this data to populate
storage node data
4. Complex BMPs may need
multiple nodes
5. The outlet structure is the key
control

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 5.2 Storage Nodes
Evaporation
Represent BMP by:
-Storage (by curve)
-Infiltration Loss

Depth
Inlet
-Evaporation Loss
-Transmission (routing) Storage
-Treatment

Outlet
Exfiltration

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 5.3 Storage Curves
Functional Equivalence
-All SSA ‘sees’ is depth
vs volume
-Void Space is ‘equal’ to
a smaller area

Depth

Depth
60%
=
60%

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 5.4 Complex BMPs
These are tricky to
model because:
60%

-Both surface and

underground storage =
or
-Filter media Example: Infiltration Trench as a volume
or that pours across a long weir into a gutter
-Move water
(transmission)
or
-All of the above

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