ICWMM Presentation Archive

Hydrodynamic Modeling Applications: Toronto Case Studies

Huu Thoi Nguyen, City of Toronto, ON, Canada

Water Budget Analyses: Lucid Liquid Ledgers for Stormwater Modeling

Mike Gregory, Computational Hydraulics (CHI), ON, Canada

Sourcing Surface Water from the Vega-Oropouche Watershed for Potable Water Treatment; An Adaptive Response to Climate Change in an Eastern Caribbean Country

Adrian Lutchman and Festus Addo-Yobo, University of Trinidad and Tobago, Point LIsas, Trinidad

Fully Automated Simplification of Urban Drainage Models on City Scale

Markus Pichler, Albert König, Stefan Reinstaller and Dirk Muschalla, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

Keynote: Advancing EPA’s Stormwater Management Model for the Digital Water Transformation

Caleb Buahin, USEPA, OH, USA

Enhancing Coastal Resilience: Rapid 2D SWMM Modeling of Hurricane Ian’s Storm Surge in Fort Myers Beach, Florida

Scott Jeffers, Anthropocene, AZ, USA

SWMM5+ Status and Future Plans

Ben R. Hodges and Sazzad Sharior, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA

Evaluating the Effects of Groundwater on Runoff Modeling

Michael Bragg and Jose Vasconcelos, Auburn University, AL, USA

Online Data Collection with Python and Jupyter: Making Stormwater Modeling Less of a Drain

Ellen Arrowsmith, Computational Hydraulics (CHI), ON, Canada

Applying Flood Risk Resiliency Analysis to a Regional Stormwater Management Program

George Remias, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, OH, USA

Building in High-Risk Flood Areas: The Particularly Complex Case of a Head Office in Nîmes City, France

Nelly Peyron, Hydropraxis, France

Enhancing Regulatory Flood Hazard Products Through HEC-RAS 2D: A Comparative Analysis with SWMM

Yong Jung and Qi Ma, AECOM, GA, USA

Pluvial Flood Mapping for Prince Edward Island

Xander Wang, University of Prince Edward Island, PEI, Canada

Hydraulic Grade Line Analysis Case Study: Flow Conveyance and Volume Storage in Oversized Pipes Under Restricted Outlet Conditions

Claire Wittnebel, AECOM, ON, Canada

Advancing Uncertainty Quantification in Predictive Hydraulic Simulations of Sanitary Collection System Flows Using Data Assimilation

Amin Mahdipour, Clean Water Services, OR, USA

Machine Learning and SMART Sewer Management

Suibing Liu, John Meyers, Liie Hill and Jennifer Baldwin, Jacobs, OH, USA

Limitations of the Control Basin Comparison Approach and Potential Improvement

Hazem Gheith, ARCADIS, OH, USA

ALCOSAN’s Water Quality Modeling Approach

Sam Shamsi, ALCOSAN, PA, USA and Karilyn Heisen, CDM Smith, MA, USA

Size Matters: Scaling Design Criteria to Service Area Size

Kelvin Meng and Fabian Papa, HydraTek & Associates, ON, Canada, Freddy Baron and Carolyn Truong, York Region, ON, Canada

Evaluating Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Flood Resilience in Ottawa, Canada

Ali Zoghi, Naveed Khaliq, Yeowon Kim, and Jennifer Drake, Carleton University, ON, Canada

Model Based Design of Tree Pits After the Stockholm Model

Albert Wilhelm Konig, Markus Pichler, and Dirk Muschalla, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

Wetland Change Assessment for Sustainable Ecosystem Services: Amathole District Municipality, South Africa

Ahmed Mukalazi Kalumbaa, Lwandile Ndukua and Gbenga Abayomi Afuyea, University of Fort Hare, South Africa

The Use of SWMM for Wetland Hydrological Analysis

Dequan Zhou, Charles Gyening and Rahul Narula, Hatch Ltd., ON, Canada

Application of Continuous Modeling to Assess Hydraulic Performance of Proposed Soil Cell LID Practices in Ottawa, ON

Nick Zorn, Morrison Hershfield, ON, Canada

Keynote: Well-Being and Evolution of Urban Water Systems Modeling: Truth, Beauty, and Goodness in Sewersheds

William James, Computational Hydraulics (CHI), ON, Canada

Incorporating the Effects of Entrapped Air in SWMM5+ Mixed Flow Modeling

Sazzad Sharior, Abdulmuttalib Lokhandwala and Ben R. Hodges, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA

Modeling Hydrological Performance of SWM Pond – Integrating Real-time Water Level Data in Wet-weather Events and Design Scenario Comparisons

Jane Gao and Jennifer Drake, Carleton University, ON, Canada

Evaluation of the Impact of Climate Change on Runoff in Urban Watersheds

Emilie Bilodeau, Jean-Luc Martel, Richard Arsenault, and Francois Brissette, Ecole de technologie supérieure, QC, Canada

SWMM5 Hydrology Model Calibration Challenges in the North

Mauricio Herrera and Gordon Johnston, SRK Consulting, BC, Canada

Compound Urban Flood Risk Assessment for the City of Charlottetown

Farhan Aziz, Xander Wang, and Muhammad Qasim Mahmood, University of Prince Edward Island, PEI, Canada

3D Visualization Tools For Clear Communication of Flood Risks

Hassan Kasraie, Kasraie Consulting, CA, USA

The Environmental Considerations and Drainage Design for New Kingstown Cargo Port, St. Vincent

Mohsen Imani, Stantec, BC, Canada

A Comparison of Techniques for Rainfall-Runoff Determination in a Small Watershed

Louisa Wildman, Oregon State University, OR, USA and Yunus Salami, LeTourneau University, TX, USA

I-94 Modernization, Modeled Drainage Study

Kevin Hong and Imad Salim, Wade Trim, MI, USA

Assessment of Riverine Scour for Design of a Major Bridge Crossing Using 2-Dimensional Hydraulic Modeling – A Methodologic Comparison Case Study

Dante Mawji, HDR, ON, Canada

Hybrid Modeling Approach to Bridge Drainage System

Sabina Sadek, Douglas Nuttall, and Mark Tan, HDR, ON, Canada

Charlie Lake Low-Pressure Sewer System Model

Abbi Kau, McElhanney, BC, Canada

Modeling Intermittent Water Supply using SWMM: Recommended Procedures Based on Quantitative Evidence

Omar Abdelazeem and David D. J. Meyer, University of Toronto, ON, Canada

Modeling Wipe-Induced Blockages of Sewer Pipes

Katayoun Kargar and Darko Joksimovic, Toronto Metropolitan University, ON, Canada

The Impact of Climate Change on the Hydrology and Availability of Surface Water in Six Rivers in the Vessigny Watershed in Trinidad and Tobago

Adrian Lutchman and Festus Addo-Yobo, University of Trinidad and Tobago, Point LIsas, Trinidad

Hydrologic Modeling to Investigate Climate Change Impact on the Muskoka River Watershed using SWAT+

Elisabeth Bowering, Allyson Bingeman and Sarah Irwin, GHD Ltd., ON, Canada, and Glenn Cunnington, District Municipality of Muskoka, ON, Canada

Stormwater Pump and Lift Station Cost Optimization using 1-D Modeling

Tendai Mudunge, Hatch Ltd., NL, Canada

Flood and Climate Resilience - Improved Detention Design

Phillip Taylor, Hydro International Ltd., ME, USA

Significance of Groundwater Flow Processes in Hydrologic Models: A Model Comparison Study in a Small Watershed

Xin Tong, Walter A. Illman, Young-Jin Park, David L. Rudolph, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada and Steven J. Berg, Aquanty Inc., ON, Canada

Peak Flow Search Approach: Discretization of the Modified Rational Method to Improve Peak Flow Estimates

Jose G. Vasconcelos, Auburn University, AL, USA, Paulo Tarso S. Oliveira, Federal Univ. of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, Xing Fang, Auburn University, AL, USA, Marcus N. Gomes Jr. University of Arizona, AZ, USA and Dingyu Wang, Auburn University, AL, USA

Effect of Drought on Temporal and Spatial Variability of Groundwater Quality in Shahrekord Plain and the Aquifer Vulnerability

Sayyed-Hassan Tabatabaei, Navid Radborujeni, Mahdi Radfar and Rasoul Mirabbasi-Najafabadi, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran

Pluvial Flood Mapping for Coastal Cities - A Case Study for Charlottetown and Summerside in PEI

Quan Van Dau, Farhan Aziz, Xiuquan Wang, Rana Ali Nawaz, Tianze Pang and Muhammad Qasim Mahmood, University of Prince Edward Island, PEI, Canada

Keynote: Metamorphosing the pachyderm in the room into Panacea and her siblings: how water systems models can help preserve civil life

2023 Presentation Abstracts 33 abstracts

Bill James

The secret art of model calibration

David Edgren

An empirical equation for estimation of probable maximum floods in Ontario

Dequan Zhou

Understanding the complex relationship between disappearing first-order streams, urbanization, and floods

Shyam Prasad and Amulya Vinaykumar

Rolling out SWMM5+ for public use and open-source development

Ben R. Hodges and Sazzad Sharior

Establishment of a non-profit Center for Infrastructure Modeling and Management (CIMM)

Bob Brashear and Jason Stawski

Defining dirty water: How much, how strong, how long, and how often?

Probabilistic identification of failures in water distribution networks using Bayesian belief networks

Gözde Köse, Sergey Oladyshkin and Wolfgang Nowak

How can an integrated model help understand a mysterious flooding event?

1D-2D SWMM calibration case study: Stoney run drainage study

Caroline Kersey, Kathie Angle and Hai Tran

Evaluating the hydraulic performance of stormwater management infrastructure with 2D modeling and in situ monitoring: Water Square Place des Fleurs-de-Macadam case study

Juan Esteban Ossa Ossa, Sophie Duchesne and Geneviève Pelletier

1D/2D integrated PCSWMM modeling for storm sewer capacity improvements

Alex Partridge

Lessons learned from 1D/2D modeling using the SWMM5 engine

Scott Jeffers

Using multi-scale modeling to assess the impact of LID implementation scenarios under current and future precipitation patterns in a semi-arid, flood-prone residential neighborhood

Daniel Phillips and Kamrul Hasan

Alternative approaches to setup CN and imperviousness in SWMM models

Han Xiao and Jose G. Vasconcelos

Impact of the depth of a soil compaction layer on stormwater runoff and flooding in urban watersheds

Shirley Clark, Zorana Mijic, Jonathan Fischer and Travis Peters

Identifying changes in the timing of heavy rainfall occurrence in Ontario, Canada

Albert Jiang

Monitoring sewer solids for Covid-19 virus, methods and application

Steven Wright

Modeling runoff dynamics from an urbanizing catchment to support the development of a management plan for a treatment wetland

Lihoun Teang, Muhammad Usman, Lloyd Chua and Kim Irvine

Ecosystem-based adaptations for sustainable groundwater resources management in the Transboundary Cambodia-Vietnam Mekong Delta Aquifer, Lower Mekong region

Sujata Basnet, Sagar Shahi, Ho Huu Loc, S. Mohana Sundaram, Sangam Shrestha, Pen Sytharith and Nguyen Thi Hong Diep

Predicting microbial health risks from roof harvested rainwater using animal fecal pathogens

David Damaree, John Johnston, Santosh Ghimire and Michael Jahne

Can long-term sewershed-scale hydrology data for pre- and post-green infrastructure implementation be efficiently and effectively modeled using the SRTC tool in PCSWMM?

Andrew Roseboro, Ryan J Winston, Andrew Tirpak, Fang Cheng and Kathryn Boening-Ulman

Supporting HEC-HMS hydrologic methods with SWMM hydraulics using Python scripting

Hailiang Shen

Integrating PySWMM and Pymoo for automatic model calibration: an application to groundwater modeling

Mayra Rodriguez, G. Fu, D. Butler, G.B. Cavadini and L. Cook

Stormwater management integrating Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) for flood mitigation on the Texas Tech Campus

Fatema Ali Tushi

Uncontrolled air pocket release and geysering in upstream dropshafts in stormwater systems

Jose G. Vasconcelos, Leandro C. Pinto, Liriane E. Bock, Rutineia Tassi and Daniel G. Allasia

Hydraulic modeling and analysis of inline hydrodynamic separator units

Wilton Chang

Urban catch basin modeling - techniques and calculations: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the flow-by

Kyle Burton

The impact of RTC implementation on the performance of green roofs in urban drainage systems

Shahrzad Hamidiaala, Abbas Jazaeri, Shirkhani, Abdolmajid Mohammadia and Sophie Duchesne

Using AI model for sanitary sewer hydrology

Mel Meng

Integrating hydrometeorological data analysis and sewer hydraulic modeling for asset/utility management – two case studies

Henry Forkuo Junior Boateng and Ali Nakhli

Evaluation of a GIS-based flood hazard assessment in Rochester, Minnesota

Michael Talbot, Camilla Correll, Sarah Voje and Paul Nation

Evaluation of surface flooding vulnerability for large scale models

Simon Deslauriers and Gilles Rivard

Keynote: It’s all pipes, what's the difference?

2022 Presentation Abstracts 35 abstracts

Evaluating resilience for existing drainage systems: from theory to applied modeling

Gilles Rivard

GIS integrated SWMM modeling - A case study in Lethbridge

Adam McDonald, Andrew Rushworth, Laurel Richards, Carmen Janzen and Matthew Harker

Applying probable annual risk to a regional stormwater management program

George Remias

Application of PCSWMM for water distribution network design for Jal Jeevan Mission

Sri Ranga K M and Shyam Prasad

An integrated approach to improve the sewer networks of Ho Chi Minh City located in a coastal low land area subject to climate change and subsidence

Nelly Peyron, Romain Viavant and Loeiz Thetiot

Using PCSWMM and HEC-RAS-1-D unsteady sediment transport models to assess the effectiveness of environmental site design

David Sample, Theresa Wynn-Thompson, Mohammad Alsmadi and Sami Towsif Khan

Systematic stormwater management: Getting the hydrology right

Width parameter estimation through equivalent rectangle methodology

Ricardo Bonilla and Rafael Oreamuno

Considering underground structure for 1D/2D urban flood modeling

Martina Hauser, S. Reinstaller, Martin Oberascher, Dirk Muschalla and Manfred Kleidorfer

A study of urban flooding mitigation using PCSWMM and HEC-RAS 2D

Robson L. Pachaly and Jose G. Vasconcelos

Quantification of flooding for stormwater infrastructure planning in Pouch Cove, NL with communal model calibration

Abena O. Amponsah, Joseph Daraio and Brian Peach

City of Fredericton flood risk assessment using PCSWMM

Naomi Vaset, Oliver Olberg and Alex Mason

Improving model hydrology accuracy using antecedent moisture modeling: Reparameterization update and case study

David Edgren, Robert Czachorski and William Gonwa

Python fosters and accelerates innovation in daily modeling tasks

Mel Meng, Elefante Dominador and Lou Lambe

Enhancing the pollutant modeling capabilities of EPA-SWMM using PySWMM and StormReactor

Abhiram Mullapudi, Brooke Mason, Jia Xin (Jennifer) Wu, Constantine Karos, Branko Kerkez, Caleb Buahin and Bryant McDonnell

Modeling concurrent improvement of water quality and crop production in Canadian Prairies

Sepideh Kheirkhah and Monireh Faramarzi

Keynote - To the cloud and beyond -- a future of integrated continuous simulation

Ben Hodges

The agrihood design: Valuation of ecosystem services for NbS visions in Peri-Urban Bangkok, Thailand

Kim N. Irvine, Fa Likitswat, Alisa Sahavacharin, Tararat Lertwarapornpong and Detchphol Chitwatkulsiri

Multi criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) approach to evaluate the applicability of Nature Based Solutions (NBS) in tropical regions

Fahad Ahmed and Ho Huu Loc

Simulating hydraulics of large water drainage systems in HPC environments using the new SWMM5+ engine

Edward Tiernan, Cheng-Wei (Justin) Yu and Ben Hodges

Modeling the impact of LID for stormwater quality management in the Bongani stream catchment, Knysna, South Africa

Calvin David van der Merwe and Neil Philip Armitage

Experiments on air-water interfaces in emptying pipes

Jose G. Vasconcelos and Malusi Dlamini

Methodological approach for the optimization of a dynamically controlled bypass chamber

Yves Dion, Alain Charron, Martin Pleau and Nicholas Read

Growing challenges of rapid filling conditions in urban hydraulic systems

Daniel G Allasia, Rutineia Tassi, Leandro Pinto, Robson L. Pachaly, Vitor Geller, Liriane Bock and Jose Goes Vasconcelos

A CFD-based hydraulic analysis of a water intake tower and a downstream pump station

Mark Wilsnack

Optimized calibration of RTK parameters in sanitary collection systems for wet weather, a Canadian case study

Saeed Hashemi, John Myers and Andrew Long

Estimating census population contributions to crAssphage measured at wastewater treatment plants in Ohio

Corinne Wiesner-Friedman, Nichole Brinkman, Scott Keely and Michael Jahne

Albany GA’s decision analysis systems approach to eliminate combined sewer overflows

Joseph Threadcraft, K. Bruce Maples, Stacey Rowe, Jeffrey Hughes, Brian Jackson, Nandana Perera, Hailiang Shen and Mike Gregory

The odd couple: Sewer overflow modeling and the similarities between Pittsburgh, PA, and North Carolina

Henry Forkuo Junior Boateng

Analysis and effective design of green alleys with significant longitudinal slope

William Gonwa

Improvements to OSTRICH-SWMM: A multi-LID and multi-algorithm optimization software tool

Maria Torres, Alan Rabideau, Shawn Matott and Zhenduo Zhu

Storm parks: Integrated urban wetland systems for stormwater management and placemaking

Sahil Sharma

Interaction of surface water and groundwater in a complex hydroclimatic system

Rahman Davtalab, Saba Ghotbi and Caroline Reynolds

Field-collected continuous flow rate and rain gauge data as PCSWMM calibration inputs for EES modeling

Claire Wittnebel

Keynote: Career modeling: Your signature dish

2021 Presentation Abstracts 31 abstracts

Brittany Stahl

Small urban tree rainfall interception measurements for inclusion into WinSLAMM, the source loading and management model

R. Pitt, R. Bean, J. Vooheesw, M. Elliot

Pounding the pavement for payment – An update on stormwater user fees in Canada

Climate change implications: Environmental approaches to assist protection of coastal cities

Edward McBean

A preview of the next SWMM 5 update

PySWMM-v1.0 Release: Advancing the Python interface to stormwater management for now and into the future

Jennifer Wu, Caleb Buahin, Bryant E. McDonnell, Abhiram Mullapudi, Ruben Kertesz

Analysis of mixed-flow model results to detect incorrect air-water interaction predictions

Steven J. Wright

Towards scalable parametric/stochastic analysis for 2D hydrodynamic modeling via process containerization

Todd Chapman

Comparison of new finite-volume SWMM5+ Saint-Venant solver to SPRNT and SWMM5

Edward Tiernan, Gerardo Riaño-Briceño, Cheng-Wei Yu, Sazzad Sharior, Eric Jenkins, Dr. Ben R. Hodges

Insights into green roof modeling using SWMM LID controls for detention-based designs

Scott Jeffers

The effectiveness of green infrastructure at improving water quality and reducing flooding at the watershed scale

Katherine L. Meierdiercks, Nicholas F. McCloskey

Modelling the retrofit of existing industrial/commercial lands with aggregated and communal green infrastructure LID practices in the Southdown District of Mississauga, Ontario

Asif Bhatti, Phil James, Nandana Perera, Kat Finney

Modeling rainfall run-off responses and antecedent moisture effects using principles of system identification

Robert Czachorski, OHM Advisors

Best practice of intelligent algorithms to optimise and prioritize capital investments and asset rehabilitation

Joel Wilson, Alvaro Cañizares, Sasa Tomic, David Garcia, Stephen King, Daniel White

Comparison of flood simulation results using rainfall data sourced at different temporal patterns and spatial scales

Thivanka Dharmasena, Lloyd HC Chua, Hongkui Zhang

Project management solutions for integrating asset tracking and inspections

Olivia Devereux

Keynote: The science and engineering behind EPA’s water modeling – Celebrating 50 years of progress and charting a path for the future

Regan Murray

USEPA’s Research for the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM)

Michelle Simon

Informing design visioning through dynamic modelling – Better practices for nature-based solutions

Kim N. Irvine, Kotchakorn Voraakhom, Asan Suwanarit, Detchphol Chitwatkulsiri

Thermal mitigation of stormwater management pond outflows using geothermal cooling

Erik Janssen

Development and use of innovative modeling tools for a better and more efficient management of water system networks of Montpellier City in France

Nelly Peyron, Benoit Drouzy, Rob James

Integrating transient simulation in water networks (TSNet) model into PCSWMM for transient analysis in water distribution systems

Hailiang Shen

Bottom-up approach for energy balance of water distribution pumping station: Case study from Bangkok, Thailand

Kittikun Wongpeerak, Jiramate Changklom, Surachai Lipiwattanakarn, Adichai Pornprommin

An energy assessment on the water distribution network with deficient data quality: A case study in Samutprakarn, Thailand

Natchapol Charuwimolkul, Chaiyaporn Charoenchim, Adichai Pornprommin, Surachai Lipiwattanakarn, Jiramate Changklom

Monitoring of pressure transients in a large water transmission system

Biren Saparia, Bryon Wood, Ahmad Abdallah, Tara McClinton, Joe Burchi, Laura Radtke, Steven Jin

Evaluating the performance of a non-oscillatory TPA approach in mixed flow analysis of sewer pipes with different shapes

David Khani, Yeo How Lim, Ahmad Malekpour

A continued evaluation of United States Bureau of Reclamation type IX baffled chute spillway design procedures

Ian Gstalder, Alexander Williams, Christopher J. Brown, Raphael Crowley

Combined impacts of compaction and microburst storms on runoff from an area of the Penn State Harrisburg Campus

Benjamin Clemmer, Shirley E Clark, Faegheh Moazeni

Sensitivity of peak flow response to imperviousness increase in a tropical Caribbean urban catchment

Álvaro González-Álvarez, Mauricio Herrera-Piñeres, Orlando M. Marimón-Viloria

Maximizing return on investment using intelligent algorithms to prioritize capital improvements for City of Springfield, MO

Joel Wilson, Andrew Faulkner, Zach Martin, Trent Stober

New daily demand patterns and the financial reality

Casey Garland, Nina Caraway

Lessons from five decades with SWMM and friends

2020 Presentation Abstracts 39 abstracts

Wayne C. Huber

Detailed CSO modeling and evaluation of green infrastructure impacts on global planning

Simon Deslauriers, Gilles Rivard and Alain Charron

Urban tree rainfall interception measurements and modeling in WinSLAMM

Ryan Bean, Bob Pitt, John Voorhees and Mark Elliott, University of Alabama, AL, USA

Stormwater project prioritization: using hydrologic modeling, water quality modeling, and infrastructure condition assessment to optimize investments

Paul M. Hudalla

Quantity control performance metrics for stormwater management facilities

Discovering metamorphic relations from OpenSWMM

Xuanyi Lin, Michelle Simon, Zedong Peng and Nan Niu

KathEA - development of a model-based risk and potential map for the use of thermal energy in wastewater

Dirk Muschalla, Stefan Reinstaller and Werner Sprung

BIPquick: a tool for enhancing parallelizability of the new SWMM engine

Eddie Tiernan

Recent developments towards a new hydraulic solver for SWMM

Ben Hodges, Ehsan Madadi-Kandjani, Edward Tiernan, Gerardo Andres Riano Briceno and Sazzad Sharior

An educated modeling approach for RDII mitigation plan

Qiuli Lu, Hazem Gheith and Ranin Nseir

Development of 1D-2D dual drainage model for commercial and industrial lands in the southdown district of Mississauga, Ontario

Asif Bhatti and Nandana Perera

A new look at geyser formation in sewer systems

Steve Wright

Development of a framework for fast transient analysis in sewer systems – S-TAF

Robson Pachaly, Jose G. Vasconcelos, Daniel Allasia and Rutineia Tassi

Real-time pump efficiency evaluation program for a large water system

Biren Saparia and Steven Jin

Implementation of a new master plan approach for the water distribution network of the Paris Orly airport platform

Bill James SWMM5 network similarity scores for quasi unitless testing of H&H models

Robert Dickinson and Charles Rowney

Mountains, cities, and co-mingling floodplains – past and present evaluation of city drainage

Richard Gleason

Dynamic road salt model at watershed scale

Alvaro B. Buoro, Ana Clara Correa, Harry Kolar, Lloyd Treinish and Mukul Tewari

Identifying river inflow to a combined sewer system through comprehensive river level and flow meter analysis

Mark Pribak and Erinn Fahey and Chandan Sood and Geethani Jayakody

Urban water infrastructure design in the context of climate change: a guideline for engineering practices

Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen

Hydrologic modeling and stormwater management strategies to address intensification of rurally-serviced existing residential areas

Emma Haug-Kindellan, Patrick MacDonald and Matthew Senior

Identifying flood risk areas in New Brunswick using GIS

Sheika Henry, Anne-Marie Laroche and Jasmin Boisvert

Surge and air pockets release analysis of LOT and OARS tunnels in Columbus, Ohio

Hazem Gheith and Jose Vasconcelos

Application of OSTRICH-SWMM for green infrastructure optimization: case study of the City of Buffalo

Maria Narine Torres, Kritina Macro, Shawn Matott, Zhenduo Zhu and Alan J. Rabideau

RDII – the importance of calibration

Louis Andre Rinfret

On the use of tracers in SWMM models to simulate water quality of combined sewer overflows

Peter Klaver, John Barton and Carrie Turner

Developing dynamic river boundary conditions for historic and design storms combined sewer modeling

Mark Pribak and Erinn Fahey and Chandan Sood and Geethani Jayakody

Biofilter media performance updates for WinSLAMM

Bob Pitt, Shirley Clark, Redahegn Sileshi,and John Voorhees

Evaluating green roof detention with experimental and modeling approaches

Scott Jeffers

Modeling a bioretention basin and vegetated swale with trapezoidal cross-sectional areas using SWMM’s LID control module

Julia Bond, Essoyeke Batchabani and Musandji Fuamba

Ramsey Lake modelling for sub-watershed study & stormwater master plan

Golmar Golmohammadi, Dave Maunder and Paul Javor

Accounting for climate change in future flow predictions of collection system and watershed modeling

Suibing Liu

Integrated drainage modeling approach for linear infrastructure projects in urbanized areas

Bailey Sadowsky, Farzad Fahimi and Paul Haywood

Activated sludge and fluid modeling in wastewater treatment

Adwaith Gupta, Anup Gokarn and Mike Barkhudarov

Phased adaptation of enhanced flood protection from sea level rise along linear infrastructure in Honolulu, Hawaii

Audrey Fremier, Jack Hogan, Aihua Tang, Stephen Burges and Cindy Do

Evaluating cellular confinement systems as an alternative to control post-construction stormwater channel erosion

Jose G. Vasconcelos and Leigh G. Terry

Managing the “flushable” consumer products in sewer systems – the role of the modeling community

Darko Joksimovic, Barry Orr and Anum Khan

B Shrestha, B Aldhafari, N Bear and A Shrestha

SWMM to WEB

Groundwater reservoir management scenarios in Yorkton area, Canada: effects of climate changes and the dynamic interchange with surface water

Arefin Haque, Amgad Salama, Kei Lob, Peng Wu

Moving beyond stormwater: Changing climate, changing minds

2019 Presentation Abstracts 34 abstracts

Christine Zimmer

Improvements to HEC-RAS floodplain elevations in the Allen Creek and design of hydraulic improvements for flood relief using EPA SWMM v5: case study from the Allen Creek in Ann Arbor, MI

Nathan Zgnilec

Don Mills Channel – Advanced modeling and economic analysis of flood remediation in the City of Markham

Steve Hollingworth, Rob Muir, Rob Grech, Kate Rothwell and Karen Finney

Snowmelt and rain-on-snow events: is a simplified modeling approach possible?

Gilles Rivard, Simon Deslauriers and Nicolas Gallant

Dynamically coupling enhanced 1‐D sewer network and 2‐D surface routing for urban drainage

Hazem Gheith and Qiuli Lu

Evaluating TELEMAC2D modeling accuracy by comparing with UK benchmark study results

Hailiang Shen

Bill James SWMM network similarity score for machine learning classification

Robert Dickinson

Implementation of a dynamic innovative strategy to manage the winter pollution flows on the Paris-CDG airport platform

Nelly Peyron and Jean-Yves Lepot

Evaluation of water diplomacy for restoration of a trans-boundary wetland

Mohammad Ebrahim Banihabib and Sajad Najafi Marghmalek

Flood risk in urban areas

John Covey

Integrated urban flash flood modelling in hillside catchments

Stefan Leitner, Gerald Krebs and Dirk Muschalla

A contemporary approach to establishing watershed-scale criteria for flood control

Aaron Farrell, Dilnesaw Chekol and Dilnesaw Chekol

Extending low impact development (LID) API support to PySWMM and OpenWaterAnalytics SWMM5

Jennifer Wu, Ruben Kertesz and Bryant McDonnell

Parameterizing unit hydrographs (UH) to account for rainfall derived inflow and infiltration (RDII) for multiple land uses under tropical climate

Ho Huu Loc, Kim N. Irvine, Lloyd Chua and Song Ha Le

Keep calm and calibrate

Sam Shamsi

Optimizing reservoir operation to include sediment management: A new approach tested for the Roseires Dam, Blue Nile River

Reem Digna, Pieter van der Zaag, Yasir Mohamed, Stefan Uhlenbrook and Mustafa Mukhtar

Using enhanced urban drainage modeling to prioritize green infrastructure eﬃciencies

Hazem Gheith, Khaled Abdo and Qiuli Lu

Regional stormwater BMPs

Larry Tortuya

An ASCE-Inspired investigation of the model-dependent stormwater management benefits of retrofitted extended tree pits in Hamilton, ON

Robert Rawlins and Yiping Guo

Evaluation of Etobicoke exfiltration system applications in the City of Barrie

Parto Peyvandisani, James Li and Darko Joksimovic

Case study: Assessing the performance of bioretention basins in an urban drainage system

Julia Bond and Musandji Fuamba

Eﬀectiveness of low impact development practices in flood attenuation

Vali Ghorbanian

Outline of a new computational engine for SWMM

Ben Hodges, Charles Rowney and Ehsan Madadi-Kandjani

Surge analysis of OARS tunnel in Columbus, Ohio: Unsteady flow simulation and surge evaluation in rapid filling tunnel

Hazem Gheith, Tiantian Xiang and Jose G. Vasconcelos

Continuity error comparison between SWMM 5.1 and SWMM 5.1 spatially discretized using quality assurance test cases

Robson Pachaly, Jose Vasconcelos, Daniel Allasia, and Joao Bocchi,

An artificial intelligence predictive model for turbidity current concentration in reservoirs

Sara Baghalian and Masoud Ghodsian

Buried water infrastructure and artificial intelligence opportunities

Ed McBean and Brett Snider

Evaluation of consequence of failure for water pipelines using surface water modeling

Karl San Luis, Amin Ganjidoost and Craig Daly

Using PCSWMM's SRTC tool to calibrate the time-area runoﬀ hydrology in MIKE URBAN

Suibing Liu

Assessing the impact of climate change using coupled downscale GCM with PCSWMM at operational level in Hengqin Island of Zhuhai, China

Qingqing Yang, Zhengduo Bao and Nian She

Operation of the grand Ethiopian renaissance dam: Potential risks and mitigation measures

Nourhan Abdelazim, Hesham Bekhit, and Mohamed Allam

Multi-Event calibration versus single event calibration results in better interaction with design storms

Ken Orie and Nina Caraway

Systematic stormwater management: Getting the rainfall right

Understanding the climate change impacts on water supply security of Myponga Reservoir, Adelaide

Phuong Do and Subhashini Wella Hewage

Revisionist urban drainage modeling history

2018 Presentation Abstracts 47 abstracts

US EPA's future role for the Stormwater Management Model (SWMM)

Michelle Simon

Flow duration curves for the evaluation of LID effectiveness

Chris Brooker

The critical need to completely protect headwaters

Mike Wilton

Another way to use (PC)SWMM - Dynamic modeling of wave oscillations in a canal

William James and Nelly Peyron

Integrated plan combining house-level I/I mitigation program and GI technology to avoid street flooding - Case study: Newton-Bedford blueprint Columbus

Hazem Gheith

The nexus of climate change, population, and water security; Implications for engineering need

Ed McBean

QA QC hydraulic comparison of InfoWorks ICM, SWMM5 and XPSWMM for gravity partial, pressure and force main flows with slopes that are flat, adverse and steep with and without link offsets

Robert E. Dickinson and Anthony Kuch

Locating and evaluating the costs and benefits of urban LID retrofits

Mike Talbot and Nandana Perera

Foundations for multi-thread parallel computation in stormwater network models

Ben Hodges and Charles A. Rowney

Evaluation and simulation of a large-scale pilot water farm project in South Florida, USA

Christopher J. Brown

Evaluating the stormwater management model accuracy in mixed flows conditions

Jose G. Vasconcelos, Yasemin Eldayih, Yang Zhao and Jalil A. Jamily

Low impact development strategies for wetland modeling

Ellen Hachborn and Jake McQueen

Modeling urban sewers with artificial fractal geometries

Scott Jeffers and Franco Montalto

Integrated catchment-reservoir modeling to support smart management of reservoir resources in Singapore

Yang Peipei, Lloyd Chua and Kim N. Irvine

Application of a hydraulic and pneumatic transient model to investigate pavement heaving near a drop structure for a large-diameter relief sewer in a combined sewer system

Peter Klaver, Joshua Hallsten and Jon Bergenthal

2D modeling in urban areas: A case study comparing side by side PCSWMM 2D and HEC-RAS 2D

Simon Deslauriers and Gilles Rivard,

Tracking urban contaminant fate and transport: An application of PySWMM and the USEPA SWMM5 API

Katherine Ratliff and Anne Mikelonis

Statistical distribution of TSS event loads from small urban environments

Dominik Leutnant, Mathias Uhl and Dirk Muschalla

Modeling the washoff of particulate and dissolved pollutants from urban catchments: is the behaviour of all stormwater pollutants made equal?

Jarrod Gaut, Lloyd Chua and Kim N. Irvine

Modeling of suspended sediment concentration using conventional and machine learning approaches in Thames River, London, Canada

Issam Mohamed and Imtiaz Shah

Sam Shamsi and Leisha Pica

How good is your model?

Application of real-time weather forecast in collection system operation

Tiantian Xiang and Hazem Gheith

Calibrating the stormwater management model: an automated, genetic approach

Edward Tiernan and Ben Hodges

Using a coupled modeling approach on pilot areas to better understand system-wide impacts from rainfall-derived inflow and infiltration (RDII)

Bryan Rogne, Brown, Conor Bury and Lita Laven

Quantifying base infiltration in the municipal sanitary sewer systems of York Region

Robert Major and Ranin Nseir

A quantitative statistical analysis of rainfall-derived infiltration and inflow into the sanitary sewer system – A case study of the City of London, Ontario

Albert Jiang and Ed McBean

High resolution topo mapping: How much can LIDAR improve modeling of LID/GI and what lessons can we glean for design practices?

Ruben Kertesz and Dan Murray

Rapid clean-out apparatus for permeable pavers: Initial laboratory tests

Sachet Siwakoti, Bahram Gharabaghi, Andrew Binns, Andrea Bradford and Edward McBean

A comprehensive review on available tools for modeling low impact development (LID) techniques in lab, small and large-scale watersheds

S. Kaykhosravi, U.T Khan and A.M Jadidi

Need to improve SWMM's subsurface flow routing algorithm for green infrastructure modeling

Joong Gwang Lee, William Shuster and Sudhir Kshirsagar

Evaluation of partial duration and annual maxima series rainfall models using the low impact development treatment train tool

Sandra Vrban, Yi Wang, Ed McBean and Bahram Gharabaghi

Open channel junction’s flow field simulation and flowmetery accuracy in different discharge ratios and confluence angles

Hossein Bonakdari and Bahram Gharabaghi

Time savings with ESRI collector application for stormwater management

Chad Boyer

Calibrate the constrained data to develop unconstrained annual hydrographs

Suibing Liu, Susan E. Moisio, Pedro Quiros Pierce and James B. Ferguson

SCADA + SWMM - HYDROLOGY = Data driven modeling of SSO 700 storage and treatment facility in Cincinnati

Reese Johnson, Melissa Gatterdam, Bryant E. McDonnell, Ruben Kertesz, Fred Myers, Luis Montestruque and Elena Rubchinskaya

Flow control on a new residential sector in a natural area using a 2D-Double drainage model: A case study

Leonardo Cisneros

Field evaluation of discretized model setup for the stormwater management model

Robson L. Pachaly, Jose G. Vasconcelos and Daniel Allasia

Toward fundamental pollutant routing and treatment modeling within stormwater control measures using computational fluid dynamics

David Spelman and John Sanslaone

Updating aging LiDAR for flood mitigation modeling

Mike Talbot and Derek Lash

Analyses of the hydrologic performance of bioretention facilities

Seyed Amirali Alinaghian and James Li

Field evaluation of highway runoff pollutant removal efficiency using compost filter media

Duncan McTaggart, William Trenouth, Stephen Stajowski, Hani Farghaly and Bahram Gharabaghi

Breaking Bad: robust Breakout detection based on E-Divisive with Medians (EDM) for modeling data qality control

Hao Zhang

Relative Effects of EIA Alternatives on Urban Hydrology in the Greater Port-Harcourt Watershed

Nimi Dan-Jumbo

Spore Washoff from Impervious Surfaces: The Building of an Indoor Rainfall Simulator

Anne Mikelonis, Jason Colon, Dahman Touati, Katherine Ratliff, Sang Don Lee1 and Worth Calfee

Evaluating the suitability of application of hydrological models in a mixed land use watershed

Anil Acharya

Evaluating the Performance of Backwater Valves as a Lot-Level Approach to Reducing Basement Flooding in Canadian Homes

Sandra Dusolt

Sensitivity analysis of the downstream flooding impacts of stormwater management ponds in the Sawmill River watershed using continuous simulation modeling

2017 Presentation Abstracts 58 abstracts

Jeff Marvin, CBCL Limited, Halifax, NS, Canada

Evidence-based policy gaps in water resources - Thinking fast and slow on floods and flow

Robert Muir, City of Markham, Markham, ON, Canada

Comparison of watershed-scale hydrological and hydraulics model for Chambery region in France using 2D and integrated 1D-2D PCSWMM models

Nelly Peyron, HydroPraxis, Montpellier, France and Karen Finney, CHI, Guelph, ON, Canada

Generating and leveraging an exhaustive suite of flood mitigation model scenarios to identify an optimized and flexible capital improvement implementation sequence

Adam Erispaha, CDM Smith, Philadelphia, PA, USA and Christine Brown, City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Design with nature (revisited): How a rain garden design, construction, and post-construction monitoring program promotes eco-literacy in Singapore

K.N. Irvine, National Institute of Education and Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, S.B.K. Tan and Lim Hong Yi, AECOM, Singapore, Ong. G.S and E. Chen, Public Utilities Board, Singapore

Fort Allen flooding mitigation based on dynamic modeling

Ken Orie, Gibson-Thomas, Latrobe, PA, USA

Towards rapidly cleaned out permeable interlocking concrete pavers: Initial field tests

William James, CHI, Guelph, ON, Canada, Harold von Langsdorff, F. Von Langsdorff LIC. LTD., Caledon, ON, Canada and Michael McIntyre, Unilock Group of Companies, Toronto, ON, Canada

Holistic graphs and reports for all Object.h parameters in SWMM 5.1.011 for future data mining and as an aid in increasing our prior knowledge of modeling processes

Robert E. Dickinson, Innovyze, Tampa, FL, USA

Watershed assessment and mitigation of urban impacts using continuous simulation

Jim Dumont, Consultant, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

SWMM5 API extension and PySWMM: A python interfacing wrapper

Bryant E. McDonnell, EmNet LLC, South Bend, IN, USA, Michael E. Tryby, US EPA, Cincinnati, OH, USA and Luis A. Montestruque, Ruben Kertesz and Fred Myers, EmNet LLC, South Bend, IN, USA

Stormwater modeling, mapping & analysis for Cane Creek watershed Memphis, TN

Kulvir Singh and Michael Taylor, AECOM, Atlanta, GA, USA

Green-first approach for wet weather programs

Sam Shamsi, Jacobs Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Utilizing street trees for sustainable stormwater management

Alison Duffy, Joseph Akunna and Robert Peter, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland and Jeremy Bailey, GreenBlue Urban, Woodstock, ON, Canada

Modeling and monitoring low impact development (LID) practices at Calgary, Alberta

David Seeliger, Miao Yu and Joel Thompson, MPE Engineering, Calgary, AB, Canada, Natalya Sapova, Bert van Duin, City of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada and Myles Gray, Geosyntec, Portland, OR, USA

Assessing value of natural assets for stormwater services

Saini Sakshi and Amanjot Singh, Credit Valley Conservation Authority, Mississauga, ON, Canada

Strategic emplacement of BMPs in an urban drainage system: A case study in the Montreal area

Mauricio Carvallo Aceves, Musandji Fuamba and Jessica Angui, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

SWMM and EPANET: Fostering a community development strategy

A. Charles Rowney, ACR, LLC, Longwood, FL, USA, Ben Hodges, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA and Michael Tryby and Robert Janke, US EPA, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Turcot interchange in Montreal - Urban drainage modeling for multi-purpose analysis

Elsa Sormain, WSP Canada, Montreal, QC, Canada

Stormwater pumping station operation scheme analysis for discharging dry weather stored water ahead of storm event

Li Shuping, Jiang Xiaodong, Shen Jiong, Yang Chao, Hou Yudong and Zou Jun, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Simulating head losses in hydraulic drop structures in SWMM, with a little help from CFD

Peter Klaver and Jason Rutyna, LimnoTech, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Dave Collins, David J. Collins Engineering, Portland, OR, USA and Kurt Robinson, City of Portland, Portland, OR, USA

Empowering SWMM to capture waterhammer pressures in sewer flow pipe systems

Ahmad Malekpour, HydraTek & Associates, Vaughan, ON, Canada, Bryan Karney, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and Djordje Radulj, HydraTek & Associates, Vaughan, ON, Canada

Conestoga College South Campus stormwater management system long-term monitoring wrap-up

Brian Verspagen and Caroline Charbonneau, WalterFedy, Kitchener, ON, Canada

Intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle for city flooding monitoring

Z. J. Zhu and A. Z. Jiang, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, J. Lai, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China and Y. Xiang, B. Baird and E. McBean, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

Use SWMM modeling to evaluate hydraulic and operation control measures of wetland, wastewater treatment plant and wet weather treatment

Suibing Liu, CH2M Hill, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Defining appropriate design conditions for transient analysis of filling stormwater storage tunnels

Steven J. Wright, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA and Jose G. Vasconcelos, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA

Ten years of stochastic water supply modeling of Lower Colorado River Authority of Texas

Ronald E. Anderson and David Walker, Lower Colorado River Authority, Austin, TX, USA

Manhole lid displacements created by the release of entrapped air pockets

Jue Wang and Jose G. Vasconcelos, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA

A new approach to resiliency analysis in water distribution systems

Ehsan Roshani and Fabian Papa, HydraTek & Associates, Vaughan, ON, Canada

Comparative analysis of the hydraulic performance of an urban drainage system between conventional solutions and sustainable techniques within a case study in Quito-Ecuador

Diego Mendez, EPMAPS, Quito-Ecuador

Stealing from the market: A novel application of market based principles for real time collection system coordination

Ruben Kertesz, Bryant E. McDonnell and Luis A. Montestruque, EmNet LLC, South Bend, IN, USA

The critical need to completely protect headwaters

Mike Wilton, Algonquin Eco Watch, Spring Bay, ON, Canada

Minimizing assumptions and overcoming challenges of watershed modeling in the Pacific Northwest Region

Bryce Whitehouse, David Zabil and Shayna Scott, Kerr Wood Leidal Consulting Engineers, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Stormwater pollutant process analysis with long-term online monitoring data at micro scale sites

D. Leutnant, D. Muschalla and M. Uhl, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

Modeling catchbasins and inlets in SWMM

Matt Senior, Ron Scheckenberger and Brian Bishop, Amec Foster Wheeler, Burlington, ON, Canada

Urban fate and transport modeling of contaminants: The unique needs of emergency response and the potential for adapting existing models

Anne Mikelonis, Timothy Boe, Worth Calfee and Sang Don Lee, US EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

Case study for Chicago River watershed: Physical modeling vs. data driven modeling for an urban watershed

Naila Mahdi, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Jonglei canal project under the potential developments in Upper Nile States

Mariam Allam, Hesham Bekhit, Alaa Elzawahry and Mohamed Allam, Cario University, Egypt

Spatial patterns of heavy metals in the deposited sediments at the Cha-Am municipality wastewater treatment ponds system

Vicko Andreas, Mahidol University, Thailand, K.N. Irvine, National Institute of Education and Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Ranjna Jindal and Romanee Thongdara, Mahidol University, Thailand

Greywater quality changes in laboratory scale vegetative biofiltration prototypes

Rezaul Chowdhury and Jameelu S. Abaya, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE

Basin peak flood prediction using nonlinear hysteresis model of basin water storage: A case study of the Koshi-Ganges basin

Pennan Chinnasamy, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

A new concept to calibrate and evaluate hydrological model based on functional data analysis

Samah Larabi, Andre St-Hilaire and Fateh Chebana, Institute National de la Recherche Scientifique - Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Quebec City, QC, Canada

Assessment of future water supply and demand in a river basin using water evaluation and planning (weap) system: Case study in South Africa

Yali E. Woyessa and A.S. Ayele, Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Evaluation of stream gauge density and concept of virtual gauges in Northern Ontario watersheds for hydrologic and hydraulic modeling

Elizabeth Philip and Jim McLaughlin, Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Peterborough, ON, Canada

Study of the effect of water management practices on the trend of the river flow and groundwater level for flooding and drought conditions in a highly-managed watershed

Salam. A. Abbas and Yunqing Xuan, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom and Ryan Bailey, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

Development of an innovative approach on the basis of model of environmental-economic balance to the management of sewage in Ukraine

Svitlana Karvan and Sergiy Goriashchenko, Khmelnytsky National University, Ukraine, Sergiy Petya, Car Wash Vodogray, Khmelnytsky, Ukraine and Oleg Demchuk, LLC Agency for Sustainable Development, Khmelnytsky, Ukraine

GIS based urban surface runoff sub-model generation method

Guohan Zhao, Thomas Balstrom and Marina Bergen Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Risk assessment of flooding - the German and European approach

Jan Tecklenburg and Lothar Fuchs, itwh GmbH, Hanover, Germany

Detention pond implementation feasibility analysis in a challenging barrier island environment affected by surface hydrology, hydrogeology and climate change: Miami Beach green infrastructure case study

Bruce A. Mowry, Carlos Tamayo and Elizabeth Wheaton, City of Miami Beach, FL, USA

Automating model builds for sequence optimization of flood mitigation investment phases

Adam Erispaha, Sci-Tek Consultants, Philadelphia, PA, USA and Christine Brown, City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Center for infrastructure modeling and management

A. Charles Rowney, ACR, LLC, Longwood, FL, USA, Ben Hodges, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA and Michael Tryby adand Robert Janke, US EPA, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Integrated recharge-groundwater flow model and evolutionary algorithms for the time and fractal domain assessment of groundwater levels

Abrar Habib, Adrian Butler, Imperial College London, London, UK, John Bloomfield and James Sorensen, British Geological Survey, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxon, UK

Hydraulic considerations of high embankment detention basins: A case study within the proposed Spring Mountain Precinct, Queensland Australia

Netsanet E Shiferawm Cardno, Fortitude Valley, Australia

An optimization operational model for of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)

Nourhan Abdelazim, Hesham Bekhit and Mohamed Allam, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Runoff continuous simulation of a large rural watershed with automatic calibration

Taehun Jung, Sangho Lee and Taeuk Kang, Pukyoung National University, Korea, Republic of Korea

An experimental study of greywater irrigated green roof system in arid climates

Rezaul K. Chowdhury and Jameelu Abaya, UAE University, UAE

Sensitivity analysis of hydraulic model

Khalid Oubennaceur and Karem Chokmani, Centre Eau Terre Environnement, INRS, Quebec, QC, Canada and Miroslav Nastev, Geological Survey of Canada, Quebec, QC, Canada

Application of conceptual 2-D urban flood Inundation model considering river

Suk-Ho Lee, Jin-Hyuck Kim, Dong-Seop Lee, and Byoung-Sik Kim, Kangwon National University, Gangwon-do 033-570-6838, Republic of Korea

Hamilton's 1860 Pumphouse – Hamilton Water Works.

A tribute to code initiators of the SWMM engine - and design environment

2016 Presentation Abstracts 46 abstracts

Rapid restoration of infiltration capacities in clogged permeable interlocking concrete pavers - proof of concepts

William James and Harald von Langsdorff

1D, 2D & 3D hydrodynamic modeling of a Dyked Coastal River in the Bay of Fundy

Jeffrey Marvin and Alexander Wilson

An illustrated guide to risk management: reconciling intensity, duration, and frequency from the watershed’s perspective

Mathematical modelling of effluent quality of Cha-Am Municipality wastewater treatment pond system using PCSWMM

Anuva Bhowmick, Kim N. Irvine and Ranjna Jindal

Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport – Detailed modeling of the stormwater network using PCSWMM 1D-2D and groundwater exfiltration

Philippe Tremblay

Performance evaluation of two undersized retrofit stormwater control measures

James Houle, Thomas Ballestero and Timothy Puls

Modeling investigation to support an integrated approach to the management of municipal water resources Southern Ontario

Mark de Lange and Ed McBean

Development of a dynamical innovative strategy to manage the winter pollution flows on the international Paris Charles de Gaulle airport platform in France

Nelly Peyron, Jean-Yves Lepot and Patrick Savary

Automatic discretization and parameterization of watersheds using a digital elevation model

Karen Finney, Rob James, Nandana Perera, Tiehong Xiao and Mike Gregory

Using EPA SWMM to simulate and analyze the influence of downstream water levels on urban flooding in Zhenjiang City, China

Haozheng Wang and Nian She

Integrating software technologies to improve stormwater management design and decision-making

Conrad Stang and Mike Petepiece

Modeling of stormwater exfiltration system performance for a residential development in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

James Li and Carol Liu

Using integrated 2D flood models to assist mines to optimally reclaim surface water for operational uses

Onno Fortuin, Robert Fortuin and Rob James

Modeling LIDs using SWMM5 and MIDS Credit Calculator: Credit Valley Conservation’s Elm Drive case study

Saini Sakshi and Amanjot Singh

Field evaluation of a Toronto green street technology

Patrick Cheung, James Li and Darko Joksimovic

Comparison of conventional stormwater management vs. low impact development techniques for the Upper Thames River Watershed Conservation Centre using PCSWMM

Imtiaz Shah and Yinheng Chen

Determining the validity of satellite-based measurements of groundwater level changes in Southern Ontario

Ellen Hachborn, Jana Levison and Aaron Berg

Application of system dynamics modeling in urban stormwater management: A case study of Pullman City, Washington

Begum Rabeya Rushi and Muhammad Barik

Creating an integrated dual drainage model in PCSWMM to assess drainage conditions and evaluate alternatives in a 100-hectare urban basin

Torben S. Ruddock and Hiran Sandanayake

A robust and accurate low-cost method for monitoring duration of combined sewer overflows

Thomas Hofer, A. Montserrat, Gunter Gruber, Lluis Corominas, Valentin Gamerith and Dirk Muschalla

Development of “Blueprint Columbus” green infrastructure design criteria and modeling approach

Fang Cheng

Optimizing green/gray solutions to control stormwater flooding – Blueprint Columbus case study

Hazem Gheith, Qiuli Lu, Robert Herr, Fang Cheng and Gregory Barden

Wetland modeling in PCSWMM to predict impacts of urbanization

Caroline Charbonneau and Andrea Bradford

Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater – Sampling collection and processing issues associated with particulate solids in stormwater

Robert Pitt and Shirley Clark

Particle size distributions, routing in urban areas, and chemical characteristics

Robert Pitt, Shirley Clark and John Voorhees

Spatial and temporal variation of dissolved oxygen in Cha-Am Municipality wastewater treatment ponds using GIS kriging interpolation

Shwesin K. Ko, Kim N. Irvine, Ranjna Jindal and Romanee Thongdara

HSPEXP+: An Enhanced Expert System for Calibration of HSPF—A Case Study of the Snake River Watershed in Minnesota

Anurag Mishra, Anthony S. Donigian, Jr., Paul B. Duda, Brian R. Bicknell, Mark Gray

Vulnerability rating of far north watersheds of Ontario

Elizabeth Philip, Kent Todd, Steve Damaia, Paul Staples and Taylor Wilkinson

An EPA SWMM integrated tool for determining the storm runoff TSS reduction performance of bioretention cells

Thomas Tiveron, Soheil Gholamreza-Kashi and Darko Joksimovic

2-Dimensional modelling to simulate stormwater flows at photovoltaic solar energy sites

Thomas E. Barnard, Mohamed Agnaou and James Barbis

Real-time emergency response oil spill modelling with TELEMAC-2D

Hailiang Shen, Juraj Cunderlik and Ryan Shepherd

Assessing SWMM 5 hydrologic parameter benefits for model calibration

Justin Siegrist, Uzair M. (Sam) Shamsi, Daniel Anderson, Joseph Koran, Dave White and Mark Pribak

Data integration and modeling process for generating operational inflow forecasting in the Mattagami River basin

Steve McArdle, Aleksey Naumov and Trung Pham

Machine learning and swarm intelligence for dynamic control of collection systems

Luis A. Montestruque and Timothy P. Ruggaber

Simulating the Upper St. Johns River for extreme events

Christopher J. Brown and Amanda Tancreto

Numerical simulation of air-triggered geysers using OpenFOAM

Jue Wang and Jose G. Vasconcelos

Modeling of transient pneumatic events in a combined sewer overflow storage tunnel system: A novel approach for designing mitigations

Peter Klaver, Dave Collings, Kurt Robinson and Scott Bell

New insights on the causes of explosives geysers in stormwater and combined sewer systems: A model for their prediction

Arturo Leon

A SWMM based sewer ventilation model

Scott Lowe

A case study for integrated modeling in urban drainage facilitating the interface approach

Roman Maier, Thomas Hofer, Günter Gruber and Dirk Muschalla

Hydraulic characterization of porous materials using a rainfall simulator to model flows in natural and artificial non-saturated materials

F. X. Masson, H. B. Lefer, C. Boulemia and H. Naji

Imputation of incomplete and missing data in water mains failure database: comparing three imputation methods

Golam Kabir, Solomon Tesfamariam and Rehan Sadiq

Numerical simulation of salt water contamination in upper carbonate aquifer, Winnipeg, Manitoba

M.U. Arshad, K.P. Kaja and H.M Holländer

Sam Shamsi and Joseph Koran

Continuous calibration

Runoff checklist for successful continuous calibration modeling

Neila Salvadori, Hazem Gheith and Robert Herr

On the potential of Whittington’s analytical approximation for computing within-element water surface profiles in SWMM

2015 Presentation Abstracts 39 abstracts

William James, Computational Hydraulics Int., Guelph, ON, Canada

Modeling stormwater runoff from an urban park, Singapore

K.N. Irvine, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and H.C.L. Chua, Deakin University, Australia

Updated version of the National Stormwater Quality Database NSQD (version 4.0)

Robert Pitt and Alex Maestre, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA

Greenfield areas and rural hydrology with SWMM5

Gilles Rivard, Stantec, Laval, Quebec, Louis-Andre Rinfret, MH20, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and François Chrétien, Agriculture & Agrifood Canada, Quebec, Canada

A right-of-way LID for stormwater management

James Y Li and Darko Joksimovic, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

SWMM enhancements for rural stormwater modeling

Cecilio Olivier, Emmons & Olivier Resources Inc., Oakdale, MI, USA

Water quality and quantity analysis of agricultural BMPs using SWMM - Lake Huron South Eastern shore

Mike Talbot, Emmons & Olivier Resources Inc., Oakdale, MI, USA

Parallelization of the SWMM5 engine and more

Rob James, Tiehong Xiao, Nandana Perera, Mark Randall and Karen Finney, Computational Hydraulics Int., Guelph, ON, Canada

Integrated real time control of a central storage tunnel for minimization of sewer emissions in Graz, Austria

Roman Maier, Thomas Hofer, David Steffelbauer, Günter Gruber and Dirk Muschalla, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse, Graz, Austria

Operational implementation of collection system controls based on SWMM modeling for the City of Columbus, Ohio

Afaf Musa, Derek Wride and Ed Heyob, CDM Smith, Columbus, OH, USA and Rob Herr and Fang Cheng, City of Columbus, Columbus, OH, USA

Dual drainage modelling of the Cooksville Creek watershed, Ontario

Neelam Gupta, Credit Valley Conservation, Mississauga, ON, Canada and Mark Randall, Computational Hydraulics Int, Guelph, ON, Canada

A systematic review approach of long term metropolitan rainfall data from a large set of rain gauges

Qiuli Lu and Hazem Gheith, ARCADIS U.S., Inc., Columbus, OH, USA, Rob Herr, Greg Barden and Fang Cheng, City of Columbus, Columbus, OH, USA

Cincinnati's SWMM model: A journey through time

Sam Shamsi, Jacob Engineering Group, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Ben Gamble, Joe Koran and Thomas Crawford, MSDGC, Cincinnati, OH, USA

RDII contribution from new developments – design standard versus flow monitoring and continuous modeling approach

Shyam Prasad and Hazem Gheith, ARCADIS, Columbus, OH, USA, Rob Herr, Greg Barden and Fang Cheng, City of Columbus, Columbus, OH, USA

Integrated planning for sewers-watermains

Vanessa Chau and Gareth Lifton, CH2M Hill, Toronto, ON, Canada

Decision support system framework for design of low impact development based on SWMM5.1 using multi-scenario analysis

Jae Y. Song and Eun-Sung Chung, Soul National University, South Korea

Evaluation of REILP scenarios toward a long-term planning of WRM system in Saudi Arabia

Badir S. Alsaeed and Lei Liu, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

Automatic calibration for watershed runoff continuous simulation and water quality simulation of SWMM5

Sangho Lee, Pukoung National University, Korea, Taeuk Kang, K-water Research Institute, Korea and Taehun Jung, Pukoung National University, Korea

Selection of locally available soil adsorbents for the development of household defluoridation unit

Beraki B. Mehari, Alfred O. Mayabi and Beatrice K. Kakoi, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

On the uses of graph databases in water distribution systems

Adam Rose, XP Solutions, Portland, OR, USA

Assessment of the potential for pressure transients due to trapped air compression in rapidly filling CSO tunnels

Steven J. Wright, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Peter Klaver, LimnoTech Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA and Jose G. Vasconcelos, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA

2D hydraulic modelling of a flood vulnerable neighborhood

Robert Chan and Michael Heralall, TRCA, Downsview, ON, Canada

The examination of flood risk in the Caribbean on island of Turks and Caicos and the solutions to address flooding

Michael Thompson and Paul Donahue, Dillon Consulting Ltd., Toronto, ON, Canada

Qualitative approach to define age of sewersheds using physically based models

Shyam Prasad, Bryant McDonnell and Hazem Gheith, ARCADIS, Columbus, OH, USA, Rob Herr, Greg Barden and Fang Cheng, City of Columbus, Columbus, OH, USA

Development of an innovative water hazard and risk management strategy based on a pilot integrated modeling tool on the sensitive Thau Lagoon in France

Nelly Peyron, HydroPraxis, France, Europe, Stephane Roumeau and Ludovic Cesmat, Syndicat Mixte du Bassin de Thau, France, Europe

Comparison of three methodologies for quasi-2D river flooding modeling with EPA SWMM

John Beck, ATBA SA, Moutier Bern, Switzerland

Quantifying the effect of variations in hydrologic, hydraulic, and hydrometeorological controls on inundation in urban areas

Behzad Nazari and Dong-Jun Seo, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA and Ranjan Muttiah, City of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, USA

Water and air: sewer ventilation modeling

Scott A. Lowe, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY, USA

Identification of biological protection zones in Coastal Plain rivers of Southeastern U.S.

Alex Maestre and Milton Ward, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA

Watershed modelling for predicting in-stream pathogen levels

Pramod Pandey, University of California, Davis, USA, Chris Rehmann and Michelle Soupir, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA

High-resolution flash flood forecasting for the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW)

Dong-Jun Seo, Sunghee Kim, Hamideh Riazi, A. Norourzi, Jangyodsuk and J. Gao, University of Texas Arlington, TX, USA, P., Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CA, USA, B. Philips and E. Lyons, University of Massachusetts Amherts, MA,

The water utility risk integration matrix

Mark de Lange, Richard Harvey, Yi Wang and Edward McBean, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

On the interaction between stormwater drainage systems and rivers in urban areas: A case study located in Quebec City

Philippe Tremblay, Francois Groux, WSP Canada Inc., Quebec, Canada

Assessment of finely discretized urban drainage models derived from WorldView-2 satellite imagery

Moh Moh Lin Khin, Darko Joksimovic and Ahmed Shaker, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Modelling blue and green water resources availability in an Iranian data scarce watershed using SWAT model

L. Vasel and G.A. Sayyad, University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran, A. A. Besalatpour, University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan, Iran and B. Gharabaghi, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

Automating hydraulic transient model to enable efficient sensitivity analysis and calibration

Hailiang Shen, Juraj Cunderlik, and Chris Hunter, Conestoga-Rovers & Associates, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Improving operational water quality forecasting with ensemble data assimilation

Dong-Jun Seo, Sunghee Kim and Hamideh Riazi, University of Texas Arlington, TX, USA and Changmin Shin, National Institute of Environmental Research, Incheon, Korea

Modeling the water quality difference between the near-shore and offshore zones of Lake Ontario

Mijanur Chowdhury and Mathew Wells, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Selecting appropriate synthetic hyetographs for use in SWMM to model runoff from discretised catchments in South Africa

Winston N. Nxumalo, Jones & Wagener Engineering & Environmental Consultants, Rivonia, South Africa

The new Journal of Water Management Modeling

2014 Presentation Abstracts 52 abstracts

Rob James, Computational Hydraulics Int. (CHI), Guelph, ON, Canada

Modeling Stormwater Runoff for Reservoir Management in a Mixed Land Use Urban Watershed: Challenges of the Tropical Monsoon Climate of Singapore

K.N. Irvine, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Le S.H and Chau H.C.L, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Sustainable Adaptation Strategies to Climate-Change Driven Effects for Infrastructure in Urbanized Coastal Communities

Carlos Tamayo and Hector Fuentes, Florida International University, Miami, Florida

Real-Time and Forecasted Flood Inundation Extents in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Cristiano de Padua Milagres Oliveira and Carla Voltarelli Franco da Silva, LabSid, Escola Politecnica, Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP)., Brazil and Flavio Conde, Fundacao Centro Tecnologico de Hidraulica (FCTH). Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Analysis of Flood Control Alternatives: The Anhangabau Watershed, Brazil

Carla Voltarelli Franco da Silva, Fundacao Centro Tecnologico de Hidraulica , Sao Paulo, Brazil, Cristiano de Padua Milagres Oliveira, LabSid, Escola Politecnica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil and Luiz Fernando Orsini de Lima Yazaki, LabSid, Escola Politecnica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Development of an innovative approach based on 2D modeling for taking into account urban runoff flood risk into city land use planning

Nelly Peyron, HydroPraxis, Montpellier, France

Floodplain and Dual Drainage Analysis using an Integrated 1D-2D SWMM Model - Simi Valley, California

Hassan Kasraie, Kasraie Consulting, Ventura, CA, USA, Brent Siemer, City of Simi Valley Public Works Department, Simi Valley, CA, USA, Rob James and Mark Randall, Computational Hydraulics Int., Guelph, ON, Canada

The Challenges of Surface Water Management at large Opencast Mines – The Sishen Experience

Onno Fortuin, Onno Fortuin Consulting, Kimberley, South Africa

Introduction of Seasonal Hydrologic Modeling Capability for SWMM

Rob James and Nandana Perera, Computational Hydraulics International, Guelph, ON, Canada

Overland Soil Erosion Estimates for Water Quality Modeling in SWMM

Nandana Perera and Rob James, Computational Hydraulics International, Guelph, ON, Canada

Modeling Sanitary Sewer Groundwater Inflow Rehabilitation Effectiveness in EPA-SWMM5 Using a Two Aquifer Approach

Brent Robinson, Brown and Caldwell, Seattle, WA, USA

MTO Intensity-Frequency-Duration Renewal - Phase III: Validation of the Interpolation Tool

Ric Soulis, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Making Hydraulic Models Useful for Operations, Maintenance and Management: Mobile and Condition/Performance Trends

Adam Rose, XP Solutions, Portland, OR, USA

Incorporation of Canadian RADAR data for historical event analysis

Karen Finney, Computational Hydraulics Int., Guelph, ON, Canada and David Blades, Halifax Water, Halifax, NS, Canada

The Integrated Stormwater Management Process in British Columbia. Case Study: Ocean Bluff and Chantrell Creek Drainage Areas in the City of Surrey

Mauricio Herrera, Tetra Tech, Vancouver, BC, Canada and David Hislop, City of Surrey, Surrey, BC, Canada

Waterloo’s Stormwater Utility Fee and Credit Program

Poly Modak and Todd Chapman, Water Services, City of Waterloo

A Lagrange transport approach for water quality modelling

Dirk Muschalla, Graz University of Technology, Austria and Jens Alex, IFAK Magdeburg e.V., Germany

An application Support Vector Machine model technique for Biochemical Oxygen Demand Prediction

A Najah, Dept. Engineering Science, University Malaysia Terengganu and A. El-Shafie, Dept. Civil & Structural Eng, University Kebangsaan Malaysia

Comparing unsteady modeling approaches of surges caused by sudden air pocket compression

T. Hatcher, Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA, A. Malekpour, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, J. Vasconcelos, Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA and B. Karney, Department of Civil Engineer

Robust parameter estimation framework of rainfall-runoff model with combining Pareto optimality and composite programming

KwangJai Won, Eun-Sung Chung, and Boram Lee, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea and Yeonjoo Kim, Korean Environmental Institute, , South Korea

An automated calibration of the SWMM with the role of groundwater component in a rural area

Sangho Lee, Taehun Jung, Pukyong National University, Korea and Taeuk Kang, K-water Research Institute, Korea

Optimizing Real-Time Control Model Rules for Operational Implementation for the City of Columbus, Ohio

Ed Heyob, Afaf Musa and Derek Wride, CDM Smith, Columbus, Ohio, USA, Rob Herr and Fang Chang, City of Columbus, Ohio, USA

Flow-Duration Hydrograph Analyses for Assessing LID Performance

Mike Gregory, AECOM, Kitchener, ON, Canada

GIS Model Builder – An Automated Process for Building High Resolution SWMM Models for Quantifying RDII from Various Sources

Shyam Prasad, Hazem Gheith and Qiuli Lu, ARCADIS, Columbus, OH, USA and Rob Herr, Greg Barden and Fang Cheng, Department of Public Utilities, City of Columbus, Columbus, OH, USA

Urban River Rehabilitation and Flood Control: Case Study of the Pasig River System

Sheree Pagsuyoin, Andre Clow, Ahmed El-Khatib, John Lee and David Marshall, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON , Canada

Managing Wet Weather Flow to Reduce Basement Flooding and Stormwater Runoff Pollution

Hubail Ajward, Mario Conetta, WSP Group, Markham, ON, Canada, Philip Cheung and Vicky Shi , City of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Performance Comparison of HBV, IHACRES and SIMHYD Hydrological Models for the Runoff Simulation (Study Area: Sefidroud River Basin, North of Iran)

Simin Ahmadian, Department of Agriculture, Islamic Azad University of Hidaj and Mehdi Sheikh Goodarzi, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Iran

Developing Fine-scale Urban Drainage Models Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques

Moh Moh Lin Khin, Wai Yeung Yan, Darko Joksimovic and Ahmed Shaker Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Insights for assigning precipitation rates pertinent to buried municipal stormwater system design in 2013 and going forward

Ed McBean and Yi Wang, University of Guelph School of Engineering, Guelph, ON, Canada

Jacksonville Florida - 27 Years of Stormwater Capital Improvements Using SWMM

Greg McGrath, CDM Smith, Detroit, MI, USA, Bill Joyce, John Pappas, Department of Public Works, City of Jacksonville, FL, USA, Mike Schmidt, Patrick Victor, Jose Maria Guzman and Lisa Sterling, CDM Smith, Jacksonville, FL, USA

An Investigation on Failure Mechanisms of Urban Drainage System in Colonized Asian Cities

Nadeesha Chandrasena, Khamaruzaman Wan Yusof and Muhammad Raza Ul Mustafa, University of Technology Petronas,Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia

Retrofitting stormwater infrastructure in a constrained neighbourhood to reduce chronic flooding

Mark Hartley and Brian Verspagen, WalterFedy, Kitchener, ON, Canada and Diana Lupsa, City of Kitchener, Kitchener, ON, Canada

Innovative Approach to Quantify RDII Sources Using SWMM Groundwater Module

Hazem Gheith, ARCADIS-US Inc, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Laboratory Column Experiment on Particle Trapping Capabilities of Various Biofilter Mixtures

Redahegn Sileshi and Robert Pitt, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL and Shirley Clark, School of Science, Engineering and Technology, Penn State, University, Harrisburg, PA

Assessment of trace metals contamination in industrial waste water and river sediment from the urban area of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Islam, Yokohama National University, Japan, Md. Ahmed, Dhaka University, Bangladesh, Mohammad Raknuzzaman, Dhaka University, Bangladesh, Ms. Mamun and Shigeki Masunaga ,Yokohama National<br /> University, Yokohama, Japan

Bioavailability levels of trace metals and its potential risk to aquatic species in urban river

Shu-ping Han, Yokohama National University, Japan, Wataru Naito, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan and Shigeki Masunaga, Yokohama National University, Japan

Water Quality Changes in Streams Located Near Urban Areas of the Northern Gulf Coast during Extreme Precipitation Events

Alexander Maestre, Derek Williamson, Amelia Ward University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

Design supportive modelling of constructed wetlands for combined sewer overflow treatment – experiences from Europe

Daniel Meyer and P. Molle, IRSTEA Lyon, Villeurbanne, France, Tamas Palfy, Epur Nature SAS, France and U. Dittmer, Institute ISWA, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Instream dissolved oxygen sensitivity to baseflow and the use of baseflow timeseries in SWMM and WASP modeling of urban streams

Eileen Althouse, CDM Smith, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Josef Kardos and Kinman Leung, Philadelphia Water Department, Philadelphia, PA USA

Identifying flow components using pollutant tracers in SWMM

Henry Fan, CDM Smith, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Nha Truong, Philadelphia Water Department, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Rajesh Rahan, Matthew Plourde, Gary Martens and Jim Smullen, CDM Smith, Philadelphia, PA, US

On extremes modeling of biogenic methane emissions from wetlands

Milan Stehlik, Department of Applied Statistics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

A Simplified Approach to Pollutant Load Modeling

Mark Pribak and Justin Siegrist, Wade Trim, Detroit, MI, USA

Time Series Modeling on 1998-2006 Chlorophyll-a in Taihu Lake, China

Feifei Sun, Sheree Pagsuyoin, Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam, and Keith Hipel, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Assessing the impact of Stormwater runoff from I-59 to a headwater stream in the Valley-and-Ridge Appalachians

Mitchell Moore, Catherine Butler and Jose Vasconcelos, Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA and Barry Fagan, Office of Environmental Coordination, Alabama Department of Transportation, Montgomery, AL, USA

Development of a stormwater low impact development planning tool for the Province of Ontario, Canada

Zhi Zheng and James Li, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

First Flush Design for Stormwater: Rainfall Depth vs. Flow Meter Data

Murat Ulasir, Gregory Kacvinsky OHM Advisors, Livonia, MI, USA and Tim Kuhns, City of Novi, Novi, MI, USA

Survival of Bacterial Indicator-Species on Simulated Pervious Environmental Surfaces in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Bradford M. Wilson and Robert Pitt, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Thermal Investigation of Stormwater Management Ponds

F. Sabouri and C. Tu, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, Ecology Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, B. Gharabaghi and E. McBean, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

Dry Weather Channel Impacts on Wet Weather Combined Sewer Overflow Pollution Rates

Bryant McDonnell, Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA, Richard Hayslett, Black & Veatch Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri, USA and Nathanial Tetrick, Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Significance of intermittent wetting and drying periods and the organic material in the filter layer on nitrate removal in bioretention basins

Daniel Subramaniam, Prasanna Egodawatta, Peter Mather and Jay Rajapakse, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Green roof runoff : an innovative method for wintry monitoring

Nicolas Geheniau, Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau Cedex, France and Musandji Fuamba, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

Hydrological evaluation of LID technique and future climate change in two towns with different intensity of development

Hojeong Kang and Soon-Young Park, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Korea and Deghyo Bae, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sejong University, Korea

Investigation of Appropriate Model Structure for Modelling Small Urban Catchments

2013 Presentation Abstracts 44 abstracts

Naglaa Ahmed, Darko Joksimovic and James Li

Full-Scale Up-Flo^® Filter Field Verification Tests

Yezhao Cai, Robert Pitt, Noboru Togawa, Kevin McGee, Kwabena Osei, and Robert Andoh

Prioritizing the Best Urban Watershed Management Alternatives Using a Continuous Simulation Model and TOPSIS

Eun-Sung Chung, Sang-Mook Jun, Boram Lee and Won-Pyo Hong

Developing an Online Tool for Facilitating Local Involvement in Watershed Implementation Plan

Olivia H. Devereux and Jessica R. Rigelman

Energy Metrics for Water Distribution System Assessment

Rebecca Dziedzic and Bryan Karney

Heavy Metal Contamination in the Laurel Creek Watershed, Waterloo (Ontario), Canada

Gordon S. Geller, Ana T. Lima, Hans H. Dürr, Jon Jones, Philippe Van Cappellen

Stormwater Pond Sediment Loading and Accumulation Analysis Using Continuous Simulation

Achieving an Enhanced Understanding of Stormwater Pipe Condition Through Data Mining of CCTV Inspection Records

Richard Harvey and Ed McBean

Simulation of Air Pockets Motion Using GC Integral Model Framworks

T.M. Hatcher, C.D. Chosie and J.G. Vasconcelos

SUSTAIN Application for the Optimization of Stormwater BMPs to Improve Biological Conditions in an Urban Stream in Southern British Columbia.

Mauricio Herrera

The Four National Taps of Singapore: A Holistic Approach to Water Resources Management from Drainage to Drinking Water

K.N. Irvine, L.H.C. Chua and Hans S. Eikass

Comparison of Floodline Delineation Methods and Results: HEC-2, SWMM5/PCSWMM and PCSWMM 2D

Robert W.C. James and Karen Finney

On Modeling and Implications of Frequency-Dependent Phenomona in Drainage System Design

Application of the Green-Ampt Equation to a Watershed Runoff Simulation Using SWMM5

Taehun Jung, Dongguen Ko and Sangho Lee

Madrona Marsh Restoration and Enhancement Project: Preserving a Last Urban Marsh Using Innovative Wetland Technology

Zach J. Kent

High-Resolution Parameterization of a Hydrological Model in Areas with Varying Urban Density

Gerald Krebs, Teemu Kokkonen, Marjo Valtanen, Harri Koivusalo, and Heikki Setälä

Modeling Washoff of Total Suspended Solids in Tropical Catchments

S.H. Le, L.H.C. Chua and H.S. Eikaas

Prioritizing System-Wide CSO Capture Among Sewersheds with Green Infrastructures (GIs)

Dingfang Liu and Nicholas Warrens

Advanced Bioretention Systems: Results from Four Years of Mesocosm Studies and Two Years of Field Studies

William C. Lucas and Margaret Greenway

Use of Outlet Controls to Improve CSO Reductions Using LID SCMs

William C. Lucas and David J. Sample

Water Quality Changes in Streams Located Near Urban Areas of the Northern Gulf Coast during Extreme Precipitation Events

Alexander Maestre, Derek Williamson, Amy Ward

Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence and Prediction

Edward A. McBean

Field Monitoring and SWMM Modeling Applied to a Rural Intermittent Watershed

Kyle Moynihan and Jose Vasconcelos

Verification of Urban Drainage System Designs by Means of SWMM5 and Climate Change Scenarios

Dirk Muschalla, Valentin Gamerith, Jonas Olsson and Günter Gruber

Adding to EPA SWMM5’s Capability to Model Long Term Continuous Rainfall Dependent Inflow & Infiltration

Joseph Pang

Complete Dynamic 2D Modeling for Cost Benefit Analysis of Flood Mitigation: Case of a Densely-Populated Coastal City in France

Modeling Green Infrastructure with Large-Scale Monitoring at Kansas City, MO

Robert Pitt and Leila Talebi

Urban Drainage: Monitoring, Modeling and Maintenance

J . Sansalone, G. Ying H. Zhang, S. Raje, G. Garofalo, G. Becciu, V. Ranieri

An Assessment of Stormwater Management criteria for the Humber River Watershed Using Radar Generated Rainfall Data

Matthew Senior, Vahid Taleban, Fabio Tonto, Shahzad Khan, Ryan Ness, Aaron Farrell and Ron Scheckenberger

Thermal Benefits and Impacts of the Proposed Water Reclamation Centre Discharge on the East Holland River

Hailiang Shen, Juraj Cunderlik, George Godin, and Adrian Coombs

SUSTAIN Applications for Modeling and Mapping Green Infrastructure

Uzair (Sam) Shamsi and John Schombert, and Lawrence J. Lennon

Application of PCSWMM to Explore Possible Climate Change Impacts on Surface Flooding and CSOs in a Peri-Urban Area of Pathumthani, Thailand

Ashish Shrestha, Thitirat Chaosakul, Dedduwa PMP. Priyankara, Ly Hong Chuyen, Su Su Myat, Nan Kham Syne, K.N. Irvine, T. Koottatep and M.S. Babel

Estimating Combined Sewer System Percent Capture

Sangameswaran Shyamprasad, Khalid N. Khan and Gary Mercer

Laboratory Column Test for Predicting Changes in Flow with Changes in Various Biofilter Mixture

Redahegn Sileshi, Robert Pitt, Shirley Clark

1D-2D Model Validation for the Assessment of Urban Flooding: A PCSWMM 2D Application

R. Sulzbacher, R. Scheucher, V. Gamerith and D. Muschalla

Evaluation and Demonstration of Stormwater Dry Wells and Cisterns in Millburn Township, New Jersey

Leila Talebi and Robert Pitt

Combining Modeling Expertise and Optimization Algorithms in Water Distribution Network Design

Bryan A. Tolson, Ayman Khedr, Masoud Asadzadeh

Low-impact Development Measures Implemented as Part of Stormwater Management at the Conestoga College South Campus

Brian Verspagen, Ann Sychterz and Tim Schill

Uncertainty Characterization of Design Rainfall Rates for Stormwater Infrastructure Design

Yi Wang and Edward McBean

Field Investigation of Surcharging in Combined Sewer System

Steven J. Wright, Murat Ulasir and Robert Czachorski

An Approach to Forecasting Typical-Year Wastewater Flow Rates Under Future Conditions

Li Zhang, Fang Cheng, Robert Herr, Gregory Barden, Hunter Kelly and Edward Burgess

Disinfection By-Product Modeling Using Bayesian Networks

Zoe J. Y. Zhu, E. McBean, and Brett Harper

Quantifying Components of RDII as a Foundation for Integration Solution

*Hazem Gheith and Robert Herr

Doing It Right: Some Thoughts on Stormwater Management and Modeling

Chris Brooker, cba Specialist Engineers, Fourways, South Africa

John M.H. Barton, Joseph Kamalesh and Roger Jacobsen

2012 Presentation Abstracts 49 abstracts

Micromonitoring

Hydraulic Modeling Software’s Makes Complex to Simplex-Hyderabad Scenario

R.V. Chakrapani, K.S.S.V.V Prasad, M. Sukanya and P. Manohar Babu

Application of Low Impact Development (LID) Scenarios to Reduce Surface Flooding: A Case Study of Rattanakosin Village, Thailand

T. Chaosakul, T. Koottatep and Kim N. Irvine

Use of the Initial Abstraction Parameters in SWMM5 for Continuous Simulation of RDI/I

Fang Cheng, Li Zhang, Robert Herr, Gregory Barden, Hunter Kelly, and Edward Burgess

Lackawanna Wastewater Treatment Plant Elimination - A Study of Potential Impacts on Smokes Creek and the Buffalo Sewer System

Juraj M. Cunderlik, Christopher P. Martin, David Barnes, Kimberley M. Irvine, and David P. Comerford

A Framework for Assessing Computer Models for Sediment Transport and Accumulation in Wet Detention Ponds

Darryl Dormuth and Geri De La Mare

Assessing the Potential For Rehabilitation of Surface Permeability Using Regenerative Air and Vacuum-Sweeping Trucks

Jennifer Drake and Andrea Bradford

Evaluation of Stormwater Retrofit Using PCSWMM

Ashraf El Sayed, Ramesh Rudra, and Bahram Gharabaghi

Development of Multi-Attribute UHRUs for Stormwater Management

Marija Eric, James Li and Darko Joksimovic

Benchmarking SWMM5/PCSWMM 2D Model Performance

Karen Finney, Rob James and Nandana Perera

Comprehensive Urban Stormwater System Modeling and Communications for Sustainable Urban Flood Management in Complex Plain-Escarpment Terrain

Nahed Ghbn, Udo Ehrenberg and Monirul Islam

Key Delineation and Modeling Steps for a Successful Evaluation of Green Infrastructure Performance

Hazem Gheith and Dante Zettler

Modeling the Effect of Grass Swale Using SWMM in Beijing, China

Yongwei Gong, Shengjie Zhang and Junqi Li

The Effect of Stormwater on Wastewater Treatability: A study of targeted Emerging Contaminants at a Wastewater Treatment Plant

Kenya L. Goodson, Robert Pitt, Sam Subramaniam and Shirley Clark

Application of EPA SWMM5 to Integrated Stormwater and Sanitary System Modeling – Seattle’s Broadview Case Study

Sam Gould, Dave Jacobs, David Hartley and Patty Dillon

Stormwater Management Design – So What Happens After the End-of-Pipe?

Two Dimensional Hydrologic Modelling of a Peat Mined Bog using GSSHA

Mauricio Herrera

Climate Change and Urban Hydrology: Research Needs in the Developed and Developing Worlds

Kim Irvine

Pump Sizing for Dewatering a Levee-Protected Rural Area Using Combined 1D-2D Modeling

Rob James and Karen Finney

River Flooding Applications of SWMM5/PCSWMM Combined 1D-2D Modeling

Rob James and Karen Finney

Interior Drainage Flooding in Downtown Washington, DC - A Coupled Modeling Approach Using 2D Urban Flood Modeling

Volker Janssen, Brad Udvardy, John Cassidy and Roger Gans

Stormwater Management in Tropical Countries: Specific Problems and Adapted Solutions

Nico Kersting, Gilles Rivard, and Elizabeth Inglefield

2D Urban Flood Modelling – The Better Way?

Fiona Macdonald and James Jorgensen

Analysing of Low Impact Development Strategies using Continuous Fully-Distributed Groundwater and Surface Water Models

Mason Marchildon and Dirk Kassenaar

Security Approaches for Water Distribution Systems in the Next Decade

Edward McBean and Hailiang Shen

Shades of Green: Using SWMM LID Controls to Simulate Green Infrastructure

Matthew D. McCutcheon and Derek D. Wride

Performance of ANFIS versus MLP-NN Dissolved Oxygen Prediction Models in Water Quality Monitoring

A. Najah, A. El-Shafie, O. A. Karim and O. Jaafar

The Effects of Water Quality Parameters on the Pollutant Runoff from Drainage Materials

Olga Ogburn, Robert Pitt and Shirley Clark

SWMM5/PCSWMM 2D Application for Urban Dual Drainage Modeling

Nandana Perera and Rob James

Planning Level Modeling of E. coli levels in a Suburban Watershed using PCSWMM

Mary Perrelli and Kim Irvine

Development of a Complete Dynamic 2D Modeling Approach for Flood Management in a Dense City Area in France

Chennai City Storm Water Drainage Plan – A Pathway for Adoption of Innovative Software Techniques

K.S.S.V.V. Prasad, S.V.Rao and B.Sanjana Bhat

Accuracy Issues of a Public-Domain Area-Wide Streamflow Model Semi-Automatically Built From Data Readily Downloaded From The Internet

Hanlie Pretorius, William James and Julian Smit

Stormwater Master Plan Development Employing an Integrated 12/2D model for the Redwood Basin in Josephine County, Oregon

Ryan Retzlaff and Anthony W. Kuch

A Framework for Interoperability in BMP/Receiving Water Modelling

A. Charles Rowney, Jeff C. Moeller and Bill Snodgrass

Evaluation of Stormwater Management Ponds Thermal Impact using PCSWMM

Farshid Sabouri, Nandana Perera, Bahram Gharabaghi and Ed McBean

Innovations in CSO and SSO Long Term Control Plans

Uzair (Sam) Shamsi and Ron Ciucci

Engineers Without Borders - Changing the World One Community at a Time

Uzair (Sam) Shamsi, Amir Allana, Melissa Day and Jennifer Lehane

Monitoring and Modelling of Soil Loss from Southern Ontario Basins during Pre-Development and Development Activities

Bill Trenouth, Bahram Gharabaghi, Ahmad Asna and Ed McBean

BMP Economics and Sizing

Ben Urbonas

Accuracy in Stormwater & Floodplain Management

Ben Urbonas

Kinematics of Entrapped Air Pockets Within Stormwater Storage Tunnels

Jose G. Vasconcelos and Carmen D. Chosie

Geoprocessing Tools for Surface and Basement Flooding Analysis in SWMM

Eric White, James Knighton, Gary Martens, Matthew Plourde and Rajesh Rajan

Survival of Bacterial Indicator-Species on Impervious Environmental Surfaces in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Bradford M. Wilson and Robert Pitt

Applications of Radar-Based Rainfall Estimates to Urban Flood Studies

Daniel B. Wright, James A. Smith, Gabriele Villarini and Mary Lynn Baeck

Influence of Air Pocket Volume on Manhole Surge

Steven J. Wright

Total Maximum Daily Load Issues Confronting the Transportation Industry

Jy S. Wu

Applying Bacteria Indicator Tool in a Pathogen TMDL Study

Jennifer Xie

An Approach for Estimating Groundwater Infiltration Rates into Wastewater Collection Systems under Typical Year Conditions

Li Zhang, Fang Cheng, Robert Herr, Gregory Barden, Hunter Kelly and Edward Burgess

Automatic Calibration of SWAT model Using Particle Swarm Optimization and Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm.

2011 Presentation Abstracts 48 abstracts

Abbas Afshar, Motahhare Saadatpour and Mohammad Javad Emami Skardi

Comparison of Different Methods in Calculating CSS Percent Capture.

Weizhe An and Joseph M. Gianvito

South Bronx Brook Restoration Project.

Harry J. Bubbins

How Much Is ‘Your Un-Calibrated Model’ Costing Your Utility? Ten Lessons Learned From Building And Calibrating The CRD Victoria Water Model.

Werner de Schaetzen, Jonathan Hung, Stephen Clark, Craig Gottfred, Bill Acosta and Pat Reynolds

An Examination Of The Heat Transfer Processes Between Pavement And Runoff During Rainfall Events.

Darryl Dormuth

Estimation of the Runoff Curve Number via direct Rainfall Simulator Measurements.

Mohamed Elhakeem and Athanasios N. Papanicolaou

Hydraulic Modeling of Deep Tunnel Provides Cost Savings

Taymour El-Hosseiny, Karen Reinhart and M.P. Cherian

Hydrologic Modelling of Lot-Level Stormwater Low Impact Development Practices Using US EPA SWMM.

Marija Eric, Celia Fan, Darko Joksimovic and James Li

Capturing Dissolved Pollutants From Stormwater.

Andrew J. Erickson, John S. Gulliver and Peter. T. Weiss

Importing HEC-RAS Models into SWMM.

Karen Finney, Rob James, William James and Tiehong Xiao

An Improved Water Distribution System Chlorine Decay Model Using EPANET MSX.

Walter Grayman, Sudhir Kshirsagar, Melixa Rivera-Sustache and Mark Ginsberg

Stormwater Reuse - Thinking Outside of the Pipe & Pond.

Real-Time Flood Forecasting System for Cooksville Creek, Ontario.

Neelam Gupta, Rob James, Karen Finney and Tiehong Xiao

Irrigation With Recycled Wastewater - Good Intentions Gone Awry?

Harvey H. Harper

Effects Of Meteorological Variability On Runoff Volume And Performance Efficiency Of Dry Retention Systems.

Harvey H. Harper

Improving Calibrated SWMM Routing Parameters By Channel Process Disaggregation: Diurnal Flows In The Ash River, South Africa.

Management Of Stormwater Assets, Flooding Impact Of Stormwater Runoff Using PCSWMM In The Greater Durban CBD Area, South Africa

Brian Kannigadu and Dravith Bakool

Developing Best Estimates For Combined Sewer Overflows To Meet EPA Standards Through Flow Monitoring, Automated Calibration, And Long Term Simulations.

Robin Lee

A Flow Duration Analysis (FDA) Conducted for the Piscataway Watershed.

William Lucas

Water Quality Modeling of Chilliwack’s Water Distribution System in Preparation of the Emergency Chlorination Test.

Glen MacPherson, Werner de Schaetzen and Spencer Cripps

An Evaluation of Modeling Green Infrastructure Using SWMM5 LID Controls.

Matthew D. McCutcheon, Derek D. Wride and Josh A. Reinicke

Rainfall Derived Inflow and Infiltration Modelling Approaches.

Daley Mikalson, Barry Adams and Yiping Guo

How Are Low Impact Stormwater Control Measures Simulated By Different Computational Models?\

Franco Montalto and William Lucas

Calibration of Distributed Rainfall-Runoff Model For Green Infrastructure Assessment In Hamilton County, Ohio.

Nestor Alonso Mancipe Muñoz, Steven G. Buchberger and Makram Suidan

Developing A Plan to Control Combined-Sewer Floatables in Ottawa.

Thomas L. Newman, Louis Julien and Gregory A. Clark

A Simple Spreadsheet Model to Calculate Storm Water Runoff Storage Requirements.

Jay H. Niec

Tricks to Decode Weird Looking Flow Survey Data.

Joseph Pang

Development of an Innovative Dynamical Approach for Flood Reduction in a Large City in Eastern India.

Long-term Continuous Simulations for Evaluating Storage-Treatment Design Options of Stormwater Filters.

Robert Pitt, John Voorhees and Shirley Clark.

Modeling Green Infrastructure Components in a Combined Sewer Area.

Robert Pitt and John Voorhees

Simple Hydrograph Shapes for Urban Stormwater Water Quality Analyses.

Robert Pitt and John Voorhees

Reformatting and Post-Processing Tools for SWMM5.

Rajesh Rajan, Kimberly S. Artita, Jaclyn Marge and James T. Smullen

Utilizing Sanitary Sewer Inflow/Infiltration Field Data to Calibrate a Storm Sewer Model.

Josh Reinicke and Marc Lehmann

Development of a Design Storm for Water Quality Control in Urban Areas.

Gilles Rivard, Louis-André Rinfret and Sarah Lawson

A Pragmatic Approach to Sustainable Development: Case Study of the Red-Mediterranean-Dead Seas Canal Project.

Marc A. Rosen and Yousef Abu Rukah

The New National Stormwater Calculator.

Development Simulation-Optimization Approach in Pollution Spill Response Management System.

Motahhare Saadatpour and Abbas Afshar

Modeling LID Impact on Sewer Overflows.

Sensor Placement Under Nodal Demand Uncertainty For Water Distribution Systems.

Hailiang Shen, Edward McBean and Yi Wang

Cold Climate Urban Hydrology - Examples from Norway.

Sveinn Thorolfsson

Pressure Surges Following Sudden Air Pocket Entrapment in Stormwater Systems.

Jose G. Vasconcelos and Gabriel M. Leite

Discretized Air Phase Modeling in the Simulation of Pipeline Refilling Operations.

Jose G. Vasconcelos and Bernardo C. Trindade

Detaining and Treating Stormwater Using High Flow Inverted Cone Filtration.

Todd Wacome

An Integrated Hydrodynamic Approach to River, Sewer and Overland Flow Modeling.

Andrew Walker, Andrew Brown and Paul F. Boulos

Pressure Transients due to Compression of Trapped Air in Rapidly Filling Combined Sewer Overflow Storage Tunnels.

Steven J. Wright, Kelley V. Determan, and Silvana M. Vargas

Air/Water Interactions that Generate Large Water Lift through Vertical Shafts in Stormwater Conduits.

Steven J. Wright and James W. Lewis

An Innovative Continuous Simulation Approach to Size a Sanitary Sewer System Storage Facility

Li Zhang, Fang Cheng, Gregory Barden, John Schroeder and Edward Burgess

Spatial Variation of Unit Hydrograph Parameters for Rainfall-Derived Infiltration/ Inflow and Relationship with Physical Factors.

Li Zhang, Fang Cheng, Gregory Barden, Hunter Kelly, Timothy Fallara, Robert Herr and Edward Burgess

Hydrologic and Hydraulic Analyses of Falaj and Stormwater Related to the Construction of New Sohar Airport

2010 Presentation Abstracts 35 abstracts

Mohamed Abdel-Latif and Hossam Mahmoud

Hydraulic Design of Drop Structures

Mohamed Abdel-Latif and Heather M. Ivory

Kiski Valley Water Pollution Control Authority Combined Sewer System Long Term Control Plan Modeling Study

Weizhe An and Joseph M. Gianvito

Simple Rainfall-Runoff Transformation for the Evaluation of Green Roof Stormwater Runoff Volumes

J.Y. Chen, B.J. Adams and James Li

Statistic Outlook of Green Roof Stormwater Pollutant Loadings

J.Y. Chen, B.J. Adams and James Li

Comparison of Rainfall Derived Inflow/Infiltration Unit Hydrograph Approaches for Continuous Simulation Using SWMM 5

Fang Cheng, Benjamin Sherman, Gregory Barden, Hunter Kelly, Timothy Fallara and Edward Burgess

Modeling the Urban System of Alexandria Using the Aquacycle Model

Noha Donia and D. Assimacopoulos

A Low-cost Sensor Array to Measure Vertical Temperature Profiles in a Stormwater Detention Pond

Darryl Dormuth and Kendra Leboldus

Compost Biofilters for Highway Stormwater Runoff Treatment

Karen Finney and Bahram Gharabaghi

Online Monitoring of Combined Sewer Systems: Experiences and Application in Modeling

V. Gamerith, D. Muschalla, J. Veit and G. Gruber.

A Step by Step Procedure for Calculating a Physically-based Time to Peak, Recession Time, and RDII Volume for the Three RTK Triangles

Hazem Gheith

Comparison between Some Dry Weather Flow Calibration Packages

Hazem Gheith and Gibson Chen

Design, Construction and Long-Term Hydraulic Performance Assessment of an Infiltration Gallery

Mike Gregory and David Arseneau

The Coupling of Inland And River Inundation Flood Analysis in Jikjisacheon

Kun Yeun Han, Ah Long Son and Young Joo Kim

Model Predictive Control with SWMM

S. Heusch and M. Ostrowski

The Importance of Stakeholder Participation in Low Impact Development (LID) Planning

Sarah O. Lawson, Darko Joksimovic, James Y. Li and Michael Walters

Numeric Modeling of Sloped Water Pipelines Considering Air Pressurization

Gabriel M. Leite and Jose G. Vasconcelos

Study of Factors Controlling Water Rise in Vertical Shafts Connected to Stormwater Tunnels

James W. Lewis and Steven J. Wright

Techniques for Maximizing Visual Information in Three-Dimensional Profiles of SWMM Data and Results

Rod Moeller

Real-Time Control Strategies of the Outflow from Stormwater Basins from a River’s Perspective

Dirk Muschalla, Marc B. Neumann and Peter A. Vanrolleghem

Modeling Green Infrastructure Components in a Combined Sewer Area

Robert Pitt and John Voorhees

Long-term Continuous Simulations for Evaluating Storage-Treatment Design Options of Stormwater Filters

Robert Pitt, John Voorhees and Shirley Clark.

An Industrial Application for Storm Water Modeling – The GE Aviation Case Study

Josh Reinicke and John Davis.

Protocol Development for Converting Large/Complex Legacy SWMM Models to SWMM5

George Remias, Mike Gregory, Denis Zaharija and Shirly Schluchter

Development of Stormwater Control Targets to Reduce Flashiness in Urban Streams

Karen E. Ridgway

Mitigating Flood Damage: Developing a Comprehensive Drainage Plan using SWMM, HEC-RAS, and ArcGIS

Scott M. Rybarczyk

Numerical Investigations on the Effect of Sewer Cleaning Flush Waves Under the Influence of Downstream Water Levels

J. Schaffner and J. Steinhardt

Advances in Floodplain Modeling and Mapping

Application of the Calibrated and Physically Distributed HSPF model for Urban Stormwater Management and LID

Bahar SM and Glenn Switzer

Use of Agricultural Best-Management Practices for Watershed Management

Conrad Stang and Bahram Gharabaghi

A Comprehensive Methodology for Characterizing Stormwater Infiltration Trench Performance

C.E. Sykes and B.J. Adams

Stormwater Management for Construction Sites, A Case Study near Lake Simcoe

W. Trenouth, S. Kazmi, A. Asnaashari, B. Gharabaghi and E. A. McBean

Comparative Study of a CFD model and a Reservoir Routing Model Predictions for Stormwater Ponds

Bernardo C. Trindade and Jose G. Vasconcelos

Regression Analysis of Variation of Rainfall-Derived Inflow/Infiltration in Columbus, Ohio

Li Zhang, Fang Cheng, Gregory Barden, Hunter Kelly, Timothy Fallara and Edward Burgess

Prediction of Daily Flows and Disinfection Byproducts of the Union Water Plant using Artificial Neural Networks

Zoe J. Y. Zhu, W. Guo, B. MacKay and E. McBean

Addressing Chronic Flooding in a Dynamic River System with Freshwater Bivalve Species: Mussel over Muscle

2009 Presentation Abstracts 41 abstracts

Dave Arseneau, Mike Gregory, Ray Tufgar, Alec Scott and Ross Wilson

Survival Rate Analysis of Water Mains: a Comparison of Two Case Studies (Canada-Iran)

Ahmad Asnaarhi, E. McBean, B. Gharabaghi and R. Pourrajab

Impervious Cover Variability in Urban Watersheds

Celina Bochis and Robert Pitt

An Approach to Update a Large Hydraulic Sewer Collection Model

Mi Chen, Joe Koran, Derek Wride, Rod Moeller and Ben Gamble

Application of SWMM5 to Study Wet-Weather Operating Strategies in a Large and Complex Sewer System

Mi Chen, Fang Cheng, Ted Burgess, Gregory Barden and Timothy Fallara

Comparison of Unsteady Open Channel Flow Calculation Programs

M.P.Cherian and Karen Ridgway

Surge Analysis for the OARS Tunnel, Columbus, Ohio

M.P.Cherian, Karen Ridgway, Ari Pandian and Greg Barden

Urban Stormwater Modeling: Is the Shock-capturing Technique More Efficient than the Shock-fitting One?

Mathurin Daynou, Ramiro Vargas and Musandji Fuamba

A Method to Assess the Impacts of Climate Change on the Reliability of Stormwater Infrastructure Components

D.W. Dormuth

Flood Concrete Channel Restoration in Urbanized Cities

Celia Fan, James Li , Grace Luk and Onyx Wai

Continuous Simulation Hydraulic Modeling to Develop a Phased Approach for SSO Control in Piqua, Ohio

Ben Gamble, Derek Wride and Dave Burtner

A Straightforward Approach to Generating One Set of RTK Parameters for Continuous Calibration

Hazem M. Gheith

Sediment Transport Model Application using Basins SWAT for the Cayuga Creek Watershed, Niagara Falls, NY, with Specific Focus on the Impact of Land Use Change

Joseph J. Gould and Kim N. Irvine

Alternative Financing for Municipal Stormwater Management Programs

Mike Gregory, Ray Tufgar and Steve Sedgwick

Verification and Design Application of Long-term Rainfall Disaggregation Procedures

Bill James and Rob James

Fast, Interactive Graphical Auto-Calibration of RDII Parameters using Sensitivity-based Radio Tuning

Rob James, Ian Guppy and Craig Campbell

Real-time Flood Forecasting using NEXRAD Radar Data, on-line Rain Gage Network Calibration, and PCSWMM for the Greater Toronto Region

Rob James and Michael Heralall

Hierarchical Optimization of Integrated Water Reuse Schemes

Darko Joksimovic

Peak Flow Assessment of the Moses-Pepper Drain in Ottawa

Laurent Jolliet

Physical Investigation of Discrete Air Pocket Migration and Release in Stormwater Storage Tunnels

James W. Lewis, Steven J. Wright, and Jose G. Vasconcelos

Honduran Imhoff Tanks: Potentials and Pitfalls

Anne Mikelonis, Ari Herrera, E. Eric Adams and Matthew Hodge

BlueM.Opt - a Generic Framework for Simulation Based Optimization

D. Muschalla, F. Froehlich, S. Heusch, C. Hübner, D. Kerber, F. Reussner and M. Ostrowski

Automated Dynamic Floodway Evaluation in SWMM

Tom Nye, José Maria Guzman, Sandeep Gulati, Michael F. Schmidt and William Joyce

Implementation of a Unique Real Time Flash Flood Forecasting System in Martinique

Nelly Peyron, Mireille Raymond and Bernard Naigre

Forensic Analysis of Time Series

K. Ponnambalam

SWMM Groundwater Infiltration Modeling for Hartford, Connecticut

Ajay Prasad, Mitchell C. Heineman, Scott M. Craig

Comments on the Design of an Urban Stormwater Drainage System

Mike Reda

Evaluating Force Mains with SWMM5

Karen E. Ridgway

Small-Storm Hydology and BMP Modeling with SWMM 5

Gilles Rivard

Modeling Low Impact Development Alternatives with SWMM

Development of a Phosphorus Removal Model for Bioretention Systems

Audrey Roy-Poirier, Yves Filion and Pascale Champagne

Industrial Site Spill Modeling

Trent Schade, Cristina Jorge Schwarz and Dan Kaufmann

Modeling the Benefits of Low Impact Development for Stormwater Quantity and Quality

An Efficient Tracking Procedure to Identify Locations of Contaminant Ingress into Water Distribution Systems

Hailiang Shen, Edward McBean and Mirnader Ghazali

Application of Flushing Tanks in Simple Sewer Networks for In-sewer Sediment Erosion and Transport

Reza H.S.M. Shirazi, Patrick Willems and Jean Berlamont

A Suite of Tools for Efficient SWMM Modeling of Complex Systems

Sangameswaran Shyamprasad, Khalid N. Khan, Gary Mercer, and James T. Smullen

Developing a Representative Year of Precipitation in Support of a Wet Weather Plan

Sangameswaran Shyamprasad, Khalid N. Khan, Gary Marten and James T. Smullen

Newly Developed High-Rate Stormwater Treatment Device

Noboru Togawa and Robert Pitt .

TMDLs Challenges for 2009 and Beyond

Walter C. Trnka

Simulation of Low Impact Development Scenarios in SWMM

Guoshun Zhang, James M. Hamlett, and Tham Saravanapavan

Dynamic Bayesian Network Approach for Modeling Groundwater Quality

Zoe J. Y. Zhu, Jeff Kroes and Edward A. McBean

Hydraulic Design of Drop Structures

2008 Presentation Abstracts 40 abstracts

Mohamed Abdel-Latif and Heather Ivory

The Use of Decision Analysis and Watershed Modeling to Investigate E.coli Potential Sources and Solutions in the Lake Tuscaloosa Watershed, Alabama

Laith Alfaqih, Robert Pitt

Removal Efficiency of Dry Diffuse Pollutant through Street Sweeping and Rainfall

Saadat Ashraf and Azam Khan

Scour in Stormwater Catchbasin Devices – Experimental Results form a Physical Model

Humberto Avila and Robert Pitt

Giving Life to Failed Un-Reinforced Masonry Foundations by Controlling Surface Drainage and Sub-Surface Moisture

Ashwin Beosumbar

Climate change impact on hydrological extremes along Rivers in Belgium

O. Boukhris , P. Willems, P. Baguis and E. Roulin

Revising a Combined Sewer System Design for Improved Results

Phil Brink and Larry Witt

Storm Drainage System Modeling of the Edmonton Clareview and Pilot Sound Storm Basins

Steven Chan, Michelle Yu, Scott Neuman and Magdy Hashem

Characterization of Urban Green Roof Stormwater Runoff

Jieyun Chen, James Li and Barry J. Adams

Identify Wet-Weather Sanitary System Problems by Combining Field Investigation with Computer Modeling

Fang Cheng, Gregory R. Barden, Julie A. McGill, John P. Schroeder, and Edward H. Burgess

Manhole Incidence on Transient Flow Modeling during Storm Sewer Flooding Event

Mathurin Daynou, Musandji Fuamba and Tew-Fik Mahdi

Urban Water Management Problems: Bangladesh Perspective

Chowdhury Mohammad Farouque and Md. Abu Noman and Kamal Hossain

An Evalutation of Stormwater Management Practices To Provide Flood Protection for Watershed-Based Targets

Aaron Farrell

Compost Biofilters for Highway Stormwater Runoff Treatment

Karen Finney, Vahid Taleban, Bahram Gharabaghi, Ed McBean and Ramesh Rudra

Urban Flood Management and Hydrometeorologic Alert System. Rio Sabinal, Mexico

Óscar Fuentes M., Juan Ansberto Cruz, Faustino De Luna & J. L. Aragón.

Current Technologies for On-line Monitoring of Quality of Water in Distribution Systems

Mirnader Ghazali and Edward McBean

A Multi-Objective Optimization Decision Support Model for Renewal Planning of Sewer Networks

Mahmoud Halfawy, Leila Dridi and Samar Baker

The Role of Phnom Penh’s Wetlands in Sustainably Treating Sewage Discharges to the Mekong/Bassac/Tonle Sap River System

Kim Irvine

Integrated Web-Based Automated Radar Acquisition, Flow Monitoring and Real-time Hydraulic and Hydrologic Modeling for Flow and Flood Forecasting in Toronto, Ontario and Erie County, New York

Rob James, Tiehong Xiao and William James

Leveraging computational grids and multi-core CPUs with PCSWMM.NET

Rob James, William James and Tiehong Xiao

Integration of SWMM into a Dam Break, Hurricane, and Extreme Flood Modeling and Damage Assessment Framework

David R. Judi, Alfred J. Kalyanapu, Amanda Gilliland, Timothy McPherson and Steven J. Burian1

A Simulation Study on Using Inverse Transient Analysis for Leak Detection in Water Distribution Networks

Bryan Karney, David Khani, Mahmoud Halfawy, and Osama Hunaidi

A Methodology for Modeling to Best Manage Storm Water Runoff and Maintain Water Quality

Camylyn Lewis and Michael Wang

Mechanisms of Flow Regime Transition in Rapidly Filling Stormwater Storage Tunnels

James W. Lewis, Calvin Creech, Steven J. Wright, and Jose G. Vasconcelos

Physical Model Study, CSO Diversion through Bottom Outlet Slot, Site DS-4 Upper Rouge Tunnel System

James W. Lewis, Steven J. Wright, James Sherrill and Mark Pribak

Structural BMPs for Stormwater Treatment Control – Selection and Design Criteria for Urban Drainage System

Hong Lin, Fariar Kohzad and Walt Stein

Implications of Snowmelt on Urban Water Quantity Quality: Experience from the City of Toronto

Nandana Perera and Bahram Gharabaghi

Advance Topics on Urban Water Systems Modeling; Part I: General Introduction

M. Reda

Evaluating Surge Potential in CSO Tunnels

Karen E. Ridgway

Western New York Stormwater Coalition: Compliance Through Collaboration

Mary C. Rossi, Thomas R. Hersey, Jr., Kim Irvine and Stephen Vermette

Video Processing Techniques for Assisted CCTV Inspection and Condition Rating of Sewers

Nima Sarshar, Mahmoud Halfawy, and Jantira Hengmeechai

HSPF Application to Microbial Indicator Data

Trent Schade, Orin Shanks, Matthew A. Morrison and Kate Field

GIS Applications for Regulatory Compliance

Implementation of Flushing Tanks in Combined Sewer Networks to Comply with Optimal Self-Cleansing Properties

Reza H.S.M. Shirazi, Raf Bouteligier, and Jean Berlamont

The Case for Flow Duration Modeling

Roger Sutherland, Phillip Pommier and Seth Jelen

A Proposal for a New Research Direction

Roger C. Sutherland and Gary R. Minton

Update on the Status of Sanitary Sewer Overflow Analysis and Planning (SSOAP) Toolbox

Srini Vallabhaneni, Fu-hsiung Lai, Carl Chan, Edward H. Burgess and Rod Moeller

Anatomy of an adaptive stormwater management strategy at UniverCity supported with continuous monitoring and detailed modeling

Gabor Vasarhelyi, Mauricio Herrera, and Dale Mikkelsen

A simple model for predicting future channel planform from historical aerial photographs

Paul Villard, William Snodgrass and Bishnu Gyawali

A Network Learning Approach for Asset Management in Water Distribution Infrastructure

Zoe J. Y. Zhu and Edward A. McBean

Use of genetic algorithms to optimize in-line storage of a storm system and improve water quality

2007 Presentation Abstracts 46 abstracts

Mohamed Abdel-Latif, Hossam Mahmoued and John Ortli

Optimization technique to retrofit series of detention basins in Sycamore Run, Gahanna, Ohio

Mohamed Abdel-Latif and Hossam Mahmoud

Surface Water Quality in Kosova

Tahir Arbneshi, Tush Markar and Naser Troni

Factors affecting scour of previously captured sediment from stormwater catchbasin sumps

Humberto Avila, Robert Pitt and S. Rocky Durrans

Runoff disposal through permeable blacktop pavements

Ashwin Beosumbar

Land development characteristics in the southeastern United States

Celina Bochis, Robert Pitt and Pauline Johnson

Locating leaks in water distribution systems using network modeling

Paul F. Boulos, Trent Schade and Chris Baxter

Airborne geophysics for watershed characterization

Bill Brown

Representation of non-connected impervious area in SWMM runoff modeling

Mi Chen, Sangameswaran Shyamprasad, Mitchell Heineman and Christopher S. Carter

Integrating sewer inspection data into SWMM model calibration

Fang Cheng, Gregory R. Barden, C. Gibson Chen, Edward H. Burgess and Julie A. McGill

Determination of overflow risk for stormwater systems

Mathurin Daynou and Musandji Fuamba

Parametric examination of source area snowmelt clarification

Christopher M. Dean, Kim M. Howerter and John J. Sansalone

Enhanced equivalent conduits in SWMM 5 for surface area and hydraulic calculations

Robert Dickinson, Charles Moore, Edward H. Burgess, Derek Wride and Srinivas Vallabhaneni

Using SWMM and pre-construction flow monitoring to forecast the hydrologic impacts of residential street permeable pavers

Scott Dierks

A technical basis for analyzing the impact of heat addition from stormwater effluent into receiving water bodies

Darryl A. Dormuth

How big should my tunnel be?

Taymour El-Hosseiny, Karen Reinhart, Gregory R. Barden and M.P. Cherian

Rainfall-runoff modeling of an urbanized sub-watershed

P. K. Garg, Mahesh K. Jat and Deepak Khare

Determining a consistent peak flow level of service for a wet weather management plan

Hazem Gheith, Matt Davis, Timothy Fallara and Taymour El-Hosseiny

Determining peak flow recurrence in combined basins with limited flow data using genetic algorithm calibration

Hazem Gheith, Mary Carmichael, Gregory Barden and M.P. Cherian

Coping with Mother Nature – minimizing flooding, erosion and ice hazards in a dynamic river system

Mike Gregory, Ray Tufgar, Kevin Hall and Stu Seabrook.

Mubarak Pumping Station: the largest pump station ever built

Mamdouh Hamza, PhD, PE, Ahmed Rashed, PhD, PE, and Mohamed Abdel-Latif, PhD, DEE, PE

Continuous water quality data modeling for Hackensack River estuary

Aridaman Jain, Ken Johnson, Francisco Artigas and Christine Hobble

Sanitary sewer system rehabilitation: pre- and post-implementation analysis using PCSWMM and automatic sensitivity, error and calibration

William James, Robert James, Craig Campbell and Ian Guppy

Combined urban and rural models for integrated river basin management

Arne Klawitter and Manfred Ostrowski

Detecting and preventing invalid hydraulic solutions in SWMM 5

David Ksyniak, Khalid K. Khan, Robert E. Dickinson and James T. Smullen.

Comparisons of the characterization of sediment from four stormwater ponds in Ontario

Helena Li, Yiping Guo and Jen-Shin Chang.

Modelling the stormwater benefits of green roofs in the City of Toronto

James Li

A technical approach for extrapolating available monitoring data to facilitate long-term continuous simulation modeling

Mark Loehlein and Terry Meeneghan

Quantifying the impact of climate variability and land-use change on floods in Northeastern Illinois

Momcilo Markus, James Angel, Lin Yang and Mohamad Hejazi

Optimizing collection system operations and improvements through a web-based flow monitoring and hydraulic modeling system for Erie County Sewer District No. 6, Buffalo, New York

Christopher P. Martin, Laura Wagner, Juraj Cunderlik, Rob James and Steve Russell

Impending water crises - issues of sustainability and desertification

Edward A. McBean, Homayoun Motiee and Bahram Gharabaghi

Development of a fast simulation model to facilitate multi-objective optimisation of the integrated urban wastewater system

Dirk Muschalla and Manfred Ostrowski

Techniques to assess rain gardens as stormwater best management practices

Rebecca Nestingen, Brooke C. Asleson, John S. Gulliver, Raymond M. Hozalski and John Nieber

Hydraulic assessment of the Ganaraska River, Port Hope, Ontario

Peter Nimmrichter

Optimizing chlorination in distribution water networks using multiobjective genetic algorithms

Issam Nouiri and Féthi Lebdi

Evapotranspiration and related calculations for stormwater biofiltration devices; proposed calculation scenario and data

Robert Pitt, John Voorhees and Shirley Clark

Investigating the effect of urbanization-induced precipitation variability on hydrological response using mesoscale meteorological model output linked to SWMM5

Shannon Reynolds, Steven J. Burian, J. Marshall Shepherd and Michael Manyin

Surge Modeling in Sewers Using Alternative Hydraulic Software Programs

Karen E. Ridgway and Gregory J. Kumpul

Urban drainage and climate change: review of potential impacts and potential means for adaptation

Gilles Rivard, Alain Mailhot and Sophie Duchesne

A primer on the role of mass, number and surface area of anthropogenic and engineered particles

John J. Sansalone

An explicit conduit storage synthesis algorithm for solving decoupled forcemain networks

Trent Schade, Chris Baxter, Misgana Muleta and Paul F. Boulos

Arc Hydro: a framework for integrating GIS and hydrology

Sam Shamsi

Creation of digital terrain models and GIS applications

Jehan M. Al-Sheikh Suleimany, Karim K. Al-Jumaily and Abdul Razzak T. Ziboonb

Characterizing the variability of rainfall and runoff for stormwater prediction

Baxter E. Vieux and Jean E. Vieux

Assessing the effectiveness of proprietary stormwater treatment devices

Matt Wilson

Comparing the probabilistic approach with traditional methods of regression analysis

Zoe J. Y. Zhu and Edward A. McBean