Retrofitting Detention Basin with Water Quality Control Pool
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 135, Issue 5
Abstract
Many detention basins built before 1990 are not equipped with storm-water quality control device. With the latest developments in low impact development for storm-water management, these existing detention basins need modifications on their outlet structures to increase on-site runoff treatment and disposal. An outlet shall be designed to have, at least, three levels of release, including water quality release over 12–48 h, low flow release for 10-year event, and 100-year high flow release. All these efforts are to aim at the full spectrum runoff treatment that is not only to capture the minor and major events but also to store microevents. Over the years, the empirical methods under different assumptions have been developed for determining the design storm-water quality control volume (WQCV). To improve the consistency in storm-water detention designs, this paper presents a mathematical model that produces the synthetic runoff-volume capture curves normalized by the local average rainfall event-depth. A runoff-volume capture curve defines the relationship between WQCV and runoff capture ratio on a long-term basis. A higher runoff capture ratio requires a larger storage volume. Using the runoff capture curve as the basis, the WQCV can be consistently determined for the preselected runoff capture target such as the 80% recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1986. A case study illustrates how to retrofit an existing outfall concrete vault with a perforated plate and a micropool for WQCV. With a three-level release control, the outfall box can have a slow release for microevents and a fast release for extreme events. This procedure has been recommended for designing a new basin and retrofitting an existing one for the metro Denver area. Details can be found in the UD-DETENTION computer model available at www.udfcd.org at no cost to download.
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 135 • Issue 5 • October 2009
Pages: 671 - 675
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© 2009 ASCE.
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Received: May 14, 2008
Accepted: Jan 18, 2009
Published online: Jan 27, 2009
Published in print: Oct 2009
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