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QA/QC version based on v22 of EPA SWMM 5 with the ability to read older SWMM 5 OUT files. swmm5.dll Epaswmm5.exe
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Video: How Snowflakes Are Formed February 4th, 2012 | Posted by Jaime Menchén in Science Videos This time-lapse video lasts 11 seconds, with no music or voice-over. And still you’ll want to see it over and over again. The…
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This is a galaxy. Or is it? A remix of material originally produced for BBC Stargazing Live 2012 If you liked this video, follow me on twitter to hear about ...
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Fateme Fallah replied to Fateme Fallah's discussion 'Uncertainty Analysis'
Dear Lionel, This matter is explained in Appendix D of SWMM manual under the title of “Command line SWMM”. So in MATLAB you can use below format under DOS window: "The address of place that SWMM is there"   input…
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Now the new images, courtesy of the Suomi NPP satellite (2012): The above two photos are pretty much what you would see with your naked eyes if you were at the altitude of this satellite.  It's humbling to realize that all you…
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Lionel replied to Lionel's discussion 'Linking Matlab with SWMM5'
Thanks Robert for your prompt help!
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Lionel replied to Fateme Fallah's discussion 'Uncertainty Analysis'
Hi Fateme Fallah,   I am doing something similar but in my case I am varying the infiltration factor. I am not very good with Matlab so require a bit of help on the coding. I would like to check if you have been successful in your attempt to…
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Linking Matlab with SWMM5

Hi, I am currently trying to use Matlab to create a set of random values and inputting these random values into SWMM 5 to vary the different parameters (e.g. decay constant) so I will get a range of results. Has anyone done it before? Thanks!See More
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North Carolina City Chooses InfoSewer

North Carolina City Chooses InfoSewerArcGIS Based Sewer Modeling Package Helps Hendersonville, NC Model and Manage Its Collection SystemBroomfield, Colorado, USA, January 31, 2012Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for wet infrastructure, today announced the City of Hendersonville, North Carolina, has selected InfoSewer for ArcGIS (Esri, Redlands, CA) as its sewer modeling platform.InfoSewer has helped define the standard in the industry for…See More
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North Carolina City Chooses InfoSewer

North Carolina City Chooses InfoSewerArcGIS Based Sewer Modeling Package Helps Hendersonville, NC Model and Manage Its Collection SystemBroomfield, Colorado, USA, January 31, 2012Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for wet infrastructure, today announced the City of Hendersonville, North Carolina, has selected InfoSewer for ArcGIS (Esri, Redlands, CA) as its sewer modeling platform.InfoSewer has helped define the standard in the industry for…See More
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You can model the pond infiltration indirectly by using either:

1. a Pump Type 4 (the classic SWMM 4 solution to this matter), in which the Pump simulates the pond depth - infiltration rate function,

2. alter the SWMM 5 Evap Factor for a pond so that you have seasonal or monthly variation in your infiltration loss simulated as an increase in Pan Evaporation or

3. You can use the newer SWMM 5 Outlet structure and use either a functional or tabular relationship to simulate the infiltration loss as a function of pond depth.

If you search the CHI Knowledge database you can also find some suggestions from Mike Gregory (and others) about modeling infiltration loss from a pond. I would recommend items 2 and 3 because "An outlet curve in SWMM 5 has the same functionality as a SWMM 4 Depth related pump ( Flow versus Depth) but it has the great advantage of being explicitly designed to have multiple functions; does not have the appearance of being an ad hoc solution (as a pump simulating infiltration would be to the casual viewer) and has many wonderful other features (added by Lewis Rossman) that you would not get with a strict pump link."


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