Design of Sewage Lagoons Using Stochastic Streamflow Sequences
Publication: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 114, Issue 3
Abstract
A risk‐based design procedure for hydrograph‐controlled release sewage lagoons is derived. This procedure is based on a stochastic analysis of flood interarrival time, duration, and volume. By modeling streamflow as a Poisson counting process, stochastic sequences consisting of maximum interarrival times and minimum duration are constructed. These sequences are used as the basis for lagoon design by calculating their recurrence intervals based on the joint probability of exceedance of the components of the sequence. Sequences such as those derived here are shown to occur in nature.
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Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 114 • Issue 3 • May 1988
Pages: 353 - 364
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Copyright © 1988 ASCE.
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Published online: May 1, 1988
Published in print: May 1988
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