Stormwater Management Community: Are You Guilty of Using Failed Urban Hydrology Methodologies?
As a stormwater management community, we have for years relied upon common urban stormwater hydrologic design methodologies and trusted their results. But should we? Stormwater gives you the answers as returning speaker Andy Reese exposes the black box of urban hydrology in our popular webinar, Voodoo Hydrology— Pitfalls of Urban Hydrology Methods & What You Need to Know. In this webinar, Andy will (with his normal humor) “lay bare” the popular urban stormwater methodologies, as well as their key elements, assumptions, most common misuses, and proper application.
Urban hydrology, including newer Green Infrastructure sizing approaches, as commonly practiced, is an inexact science at best. If we were omniscient, we could do an exact job of urban hydrology. Instead, we rely on engineering judgment and guesswork, ultimately striking a compromise between accuracy and data availability, and resulting in an answer that is close to correct. As such, understanding the inner workings of the black boxes and unstated assumptions inherent in urban stormwater hydrology that we commonly use (e.g., computer packages) is essential to ensure proper application.
Join Andy in exploring the inner workings of some of the most popular urban hydrologic methodologies and stormwater systems, as well as their common misuse and misapplications. Through discussion of the associated elements and pitfalls, you will gain comprehensive understanding of urban hydrological methods and their proper application to employ in your urban stormwater system design.
If you are a stormwater plans reviewer, compliance officer, design engineer, consultant, manager, professor, or attorney, this course is for you! Get more information and sign up here!
Learning Objectives: Attendees can expect the discussion and education of the following learning objectives:
- Learn common urban stormwater hydrologic methodologies and elements.
- Understand the basis for common urban stormwater management methodologies.
- Discover the key assumptions, pitfalls, and common misuse and misapplication of urban stormwater hydrologic methodologies.
- Recognize the limits of these methods and the keys to successful application.
- Learn common urban stormwater hydrologic methodologies and elements.
- Understand the basis for common urban stormwater management methodologies.
- Discover the key assumptions, pitfalls, and common misuse and misapplication of urban stormwater hydrologic methodologies.
- Recognize the limits of these methods and the keys to successful application.
