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Let’s teach you how to calculate and store your property’s rainwater runoff. One
of the most important elements of designing a proper drainage system is
determining how much Rainwater is falling on your property and what to do with
this volume of water. Here we will also provide you with the tools needed to
design a custom drainage system for your property.
Paper
A pen or pencil
A tape measure
A calculator.
Calculate storm runoff using the rational method. There are several method that
can be used to calculate drainage, but the rational method is probably the easiest
and most widely used method. The rational method equation is:
Q = C x I x A/96.23, where,
C is the runoff coef cient this is essentially the percentage of water that runs off
of a given surface. For example; if rain is falling at 2 inches per hour and only 1
inch per hour is running off the surface the C value for that surface is 1 divided by
2 or 0.5.
I, is the rainfall intensity in inches per hour and can be calculated in several ways
but here we use the approximate rainfall values from this 100 year rainfall map.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hdsc/PF_documents/TechnicalPaper_No40.pdf
The 100 year rainfall map shows the approximate amount of rain that will fall in
the 100 year storm event.
A, is the surface area where the runoff waters come in from in square feet. The
square footage for one half of the roof of a house of 40 feet by 20 feet which
equals 800 sq. ft.
The rational method equation says that our rain runoff is equal to the runoff
coef cient C times the rainfall intensity I times the run-off area A, all divided by
96.23.
The run-off is coming from the roof so the C value in our equation is 1.0.
Let’s pretend this house is in Atlanta, Georgia: Where the I value is 3.5 inches
per hour
The A value is 800 sq. ft.
By multiplying this out we can expect to get 29.1 gallons per minute of water
from this portion of the roof in the 100 years storm event.
Another example:
Y.
If the water is coming from two different surfaces but draining to the same area,
you treat them individually then combine the results.
Example, water is coming from both the roof and the grass with areas of 800 and
1000 sq. ft. respectively, we will assume two inches of rainfall per hour. The run-
off from the roof will be 16.63 gallons per minute and the run-off from the grass
will be 7.7 gallons per minute.
The run-off from the roof was 16.6 gallons per minute and the runoff from the
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