DETENTION POND SIZING FOR MULTIPLE RETURN PERIODS

A desk-top method is developed for sizing detention ponds and outlet facilities for multiple return periods. The method allows a nonlinear relationship between the pond storage and the water level. A family of charts is presented that can be used directly, without a lengthy trial-and-error routing procedure. The desk-top method is based on the reservoir pool-routing technique. The hydrologic storage equation is coupled with expressions describing the flow through and over the outlet structures. The resulting differences are solved using a finite difference scheme. However, since the analysis is carried out in terms of carefully chosen dimensionless parameters, the results can be generalized and presented very conveniently in chart form.

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• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  345 East 47th Street
  New York, NY  United States  10017-2398
• Authors:
  • Akan, O
• Publication Date: 1989-5

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 650-664
• Serial:
  • Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
  • Volume: 115
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-9429
  • Serial URL: https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jhend8

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Catch basins; Charts; Detention basins; Finite differences; Hydrology; Ponding; Size; Water storage; Water table
• Uncontrolled Terms: Outlets; Ponds
• Subject Areas: Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; I26: Water Run-off - Freeze-thaw;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00485119
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 30 1989 12:00AM