Predicting Individual Hydraulic Performance of Sewer Pipes in Context of Climate Change
Publication: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 145, Issue 11
Abstract
A new method to identify pipes with insufficient hydraulic capacity is proposed. This method can be applied to assess the future evolution of network performance under climate change (CC). It is based on hydrologic/hydraulic simulations using the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) and single observed rainfall events. The evolution of the hydraulic performance with time is simulated by increasing the intensity of these rainfall events by a factor depending on the CC predictions for the study area. The proposed method is applied to two Canadian separated and combined sewer networks. The method identified the constraining pipe sections that could cause hydraulic dysfunctions in the networks in both current and future climates. For the two networks, the number of constraining pipes depends on rain events and is anticipated to increase in the future climate. The proposed method can be applied to various types of networks to assess the network performance and project the evolution of the hydraulic performance of individual pipes over time, making it a useful tool for the planning of drainage network renewal under CC.
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Data Availability Statement
The rainfall data, the characteristics of sewers, and the SWMM models used during the study were provided by third parties. Direct requests for these materials may be made to the providers; the corresponding author can provide the contact information of these providers on request. The codes generated during the study are available from the corresponding author by request.
Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank the two anonymous municipalities for providing the networks’ SWMM models used in this study. The authors are also grateful to Guillaume Talbot for his help in programming.
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