Detention Storage Volume for Small Urban Catchments
Publication: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 125, Issue 6
Abstract
To size storm-water detention basins, a volume-based method such as that of the Federal Aviation Administration is applicable to small urban catchments. However, the reliability of such a method depends on estimation of the average outflow. In this study, the average outflow from a detention basin is found to be related to the time of concentration of the catchment and the duration of the design storm. This modification eliminates judgment calls and warrants a consistency in volumes and flow rates between the design rainfall hyeotograph and the inflow and outflow hydrographs.
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Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 125 • Issue 6 • November 1999
Pages: 380 - 382
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Received: May 15, 1998
Published online: Nov 1, 1999
Published in print: Nov 1999
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