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Subject: Water Quality Options in InfoSewer You can have up to seven different water quality options in InfoSewer and have each option as a different scenario using a different specific simulation option for each water quality option. make gif

Country of Samoa Chooses Innovyze Smart Water and Sewer Network Modeling Solutions   Samoa Water Authority Selects H 2 OMAP Water and InfoWorks CS Broomfield, Colorado USA,  May 29, 2012  — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for wet infrastructure, today announced that the Samoa Water Authority (SWA) has chosen Innovyze industry-leading  H 2 OMAP Water  and  InfoWorks CS  software for water distribution and sewer collection modeling and design of the Samoan network. The selection further substantiates Innovyze’s leadership position in geospatial hydraulic infrastructure modeling and management across the globe. Established in September of 1993, the SWA is the national supplier of water services to Samoa’s 180,000 citizens. The authority manages five conventional slow-sand filter water treatment plants and five newer rapid-sand filtration package treatment plants. All treated supplies are chlorinated to comply with the Samoa National Dr

Saving to previous versions of ArcGIS in InfoSWMM and InfoSewer Once you open and save an existing map document (.mxd file) using ArcGIS 10, the map can no longer be opened with earlier versions of ArcGIS because it will now reflect the new functionality added at 10. Similarly, new documents you create with 10 also cannot be opened in earlier versions of the software. However, you can use the  Save A Copy  command to make a copy of a map document so you can open and work with it in previous versions of ArcGIS. With ArcGIS 10, you can save to ArcGIS 9.3, 9.2, 9.0/9.1, or 8.3. ArcGIS 9.0 and 9.1 map documents are directly compatible with each other and those versions of the software. Each new version of ArcGIS introduces functionality and properties that aren't available in previous versions. When you save a map document, layer file, or 3D document to a previous version of ArcGIS, the format of the file is changed to eliminate properties not available in the older version. This means

Subject :  Historical SWMM 5 and SWMM 4 Engines and Examples The web site has http://swmm5legacycode.ning.com/  historical SWMM 5 installs, SWMM 5 input file examples and SWMM 4 input files and engines.   The SWMM 4 engines go back to SWMM 3.5 engines from the 1980’s.

Subject:    Link Iterations in the SWMM 5 Dynamic Wave Solution Link Iterations in the SWMM 5 Dynamic Wave Solution by  dickinsonre Subject:    Link Iterations in the SWMM 5 Dynamic Wave Soluti on Each of the links in the SWMM 5 network can use up to 8 iterations to reach convergence during a time step in the dynamic wave solution of S WMM 5.  The rules governing the number of iterations are: 1.        A minimum of 2 iterations per time step with the 1 st  iteration NOT using the underrelaxtion parameter of 0.5 (Figure 1) 2.        If both the downstream and upstream nodes are converged then the link drops out of the iteration process during the time step (Figure 2) 3.        The number of iterations for each link can vary over the simulation from 2 to 8 depending on how fast the flow is changing. Figure 1.   A minimum of two and up to eight iterations per time step in the SWMM 5 dynamic wave soluti on. Figure 2.   The number of iterations for each link vary through out  the simulation

Subject:   How is the St Venant Equation Solved for in the Dynamic Wave Solution of SWMM 5? How is the St Venant Equation Solved for in the Dynamic Wave Solution of SWMM 5? by  dickinsonre Subject:    How is the St Venant Equation Solved  for in the Dynamic Wave Solution of S WMM 5? An explanation of the four St. Venant Terms in SWMM 5 and how they change for Gravity Mains and Force Mains. The HGL is the water surface elevation in the upstream and downstream nodes of the link. The HGL for a full link goes from the pipe crown elevation up to the rim elevation of the node + the surcharge depth of the node.  The four terms are: dq2  = Time Step * Awtd * (Head Downstream – Head Upstream) / Link Length or dq2  = Time Step * Awtd * ( HGL ) / Link Length Qnew  = (Qold – dq2 + dq3 + dq4) / ( 1 + dq1) when the force main is full dq3 and dq4 are zero and Qnew  = (Qold – dq2) / ( 1 + dq1) The  dq4  term in dynamic.c uses the area upstream ( a1 ) and area downstream ( a2 ), the midpoint velocity,

Subject:   SWMM 5 Precipitation Options SWMM 5 Precipitation Options by  dickinsonre Subject:   SWMM 5 Precipitation  Options You can have design storms, monitored storms of any length of the time from minutes to centuries, use intensity, volume or cumulative precipitation, use both rainfall and snowfall in the same rain gage depending on temperature, use both time series or external files for the rain gage and have unlimited rain gages with the limitation of one rain gage per subcatchment . via Blogger  http://www.swmm5.net/2013/08/ swmm-5-precipitation-options. html

Subject:   SWMM 5 Leaping Weir Example SWMM 5 Leaping Weir Example by  dickinsonre Subject:   SWMM 5 Leaping Weir Example The attached example shows one way how SWMM 5 RTC Rules can be used to have the low flow go down a leaping weir orifice and the high flow go over the weir to the downstream section of the sewer.  via Blogger  http://www.swmm5.net/2013/08/ swmm-5-leaping-weir-example. html

Force Main Friction Loss in InfoSWMM and the Transition from Partial to Full Flow by  dickinsonre Subject:   Force Main Friction Loss in InfoSWMM and the Transition from Partial to Full Flow You can model Force Main friction loss in InfoSWMM using either Darcy Weisbach or Hazen Williams as the full pipe friction loss method (see Figure 1 for the internal definition of full flow).   A  function called ForceMain in InfoSWMM whose purpose is to compute the Darcy-Weisbach friction factor for a force main using the  Swamee and Jain approximation to the Colebrook-White equation  .   No matter which method you use for full flow the  program will use Manning's equation to calculate the loss in the link when the link is not full (see Figure 2 for the equations used for calculating the friction loss – variable dq1 in the St Venant equation for InfoSWMM).    The regions for the different friction loss equations are shown in Figure 3.        There is no slot in InfoSWMM for the full pipe flow

Registration and Call for Papers Announced for Innovyze European User Conference 2012   Key Industry Event for European Modeling Professionals Confirmed for September 19-20, 2012. More information and registration at  www.watermodeling.com Broomfield, Colorado USA,  May 22, 2012  — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of wet infrastructure modeling and simulation software and technologies, today announced the opening of registration and call for papers for the Innovyze European User Conference 2012. The premier event for the digital utility and smart water modeling community will be held September 19-20, 2012, at the Hilton Metropole, Birmingham, United Kingdom. This once-a-year learning opportunity for Innovyze’s European users will feature powerful technical presentations showcasing projects from throughout the region, along with keynote addresses from industry leaders and captains of the smart water modeling industry. Sponsorship packages are available and committed sponsors already

Dry lands getting drier, wet getting wetter: Earths water cycle intensifying with atmospheric warming http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120521104631.htm May 21, 2012 ScienceDaily (May 21, 2012)  — A clear change in salinity has been detected in the world's oceans, signalling shifts and an acceleration in the global rainfall and evaporation cycle. In a paper just published in the journal  Science,  Australian scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, reported changing patterns of salinity in the global ocean during the past 50 years, marking a clear fingerprint of climate change. Lead author, Dr Paul Durack, said that by looking at observed ocean salinity changes and the relationship between salinity, rainfall and evaporation in climate models, they determined the water cycle has strengthened by four per cent from 1950-2000. This is twice the response projected by c

Innovyze Releases InfoMaster Sewer; Next Generation Analytics-Centric Asset Management for Smart Water Networks for Digital Utilities   Groundbreaking Release Leverages ArcGIS, Advanced Analytics and iOS Mobile Technology, Setting New Standard for Collection System Optimization and Regulatory Compliance Broomfield, Colorado USA,  May 15, 2012  — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for wet infrastructure, today announced the worldwide release of  InfoMaster Sewer  for the enterprise management and analysis of sewer collection system data. The  InfoMaster  product suite provides critical insight to all utility enterprise assets, their conditions and work processes, for better planning and control. It lets utilities use information and analytics in new ways to drive higher productivity and quality, while managing costs and increasing operational flexibility. It is available exclusively for the Esri (Redlands, CA) ArcGIS 10 platform and incl

Subject:   Saving an Output Relate in InfoSWMM directly to Excel using Arc Tool Box Saving an Output Relate in InfoSWMM directly to Excel using Arc Tool Box by  dickinsonre Subject:   Saving an Output Rel ate in InfoSWMM directly to Ex cel using Arc Tool Box The following shows how to make an Excel file directly from a feature table in InfoSWMM Step 1.  Download the Arc Tool box add on Table to Excel You can download the python script from here    http://resources. arcgis.com/gallery/file/ geoprocessing/details?entryID= 95009B25-1422-2418-7FB5- B8638ECB2FA9 Step 2.    Add the Tool to Arc Toolbox and then use the tool to create an Excel CSV File Step 3.  You can export any of the features in InfoSWMM to CSV     via Blogger  http://www.swmm5.net/2013/08/ saving-output-relate-in- infoswmm.html

Subject:   Example  DUPUIT-FORCHHEIMER APPROXIMATION FOR SUBSURFACE FLOW Model in SWMM 5 Example DUPUIT-FORCHHEIMER APPROXIMATION FOR SUBSURFACE FLOW Model in SWMM 5 by  dickinsonre Subject:    Example  DUPUIT-FORCHHEIMER APPROXIMATION FOR SUBSURFACE FLOW Model in SWMM 5   This example was created from an older SWMM 4 model from 1988 using the SWMM 4 to SWMM 5 converter.  The values for the coefficients in this case are A1 = A3 = 4*K/L^2, A2 = 0, B1 or the exponent or B1=2 or from Appendix X in the SWMM 4 manual from OSU ( http://eng.odu.edu/cee/ resources/model/mbin/swmm/ swmm_6.pdf )   via Blogger   http://www.swmm5.net/2013/08/ example-dupuit-forchheimer. html

Subject:    Example Groundwater Model in SWMM 5 Example Groundwater Model in SWMM 5 by  dickinsonre Subject:    Example Groundwater Model in SWMM 5   The attached model shows three ways in which the groundwater model of the SWMM 5 subcatchments interact with the node depths of the hydraulic network.  The hydraulic network interaction can be either:   1.         At a fixed water surface elevation, 2.         At a time varying water surface elevation based on the inflow and geometry of the node and 3.         At a threshold node water surface elevation.   via Blogger  http://www.swmm5.net/2013/08/ example-groundwater-model-in- swmm-5.html