THE DESIGN AND TEST OF A SAFE AND EFFECTIVE STORM-SEWER INLET

A new combination inlet for storm water was designed and tested on a 1:4 scale model to determine its hydraulic efficiency. Experimental results obtained from two transverse slopes, 1/48 and 1/32, and seven longitudinal slopes equal to 0.006, 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.04, 0.06 and 0.08 show that the new inlet maintains a relatively high intercept ratio over a wide range of these variables at low as well as high total discharges. Prototype tests are recommended to insure that this new inlet is also bicycle-safe.

• Corporate Authors:

  Water Resources Research Institute

  Kansas State University
  Manhattan, KS  United States  66502

  Office of Water Resources Research

  C Street between 18th and 19 Sreets, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20242
• Authors:
  • Yu, Y S
• Publication Date: 1976-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 52 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycles; Culvert inlets; Design; Drains; Economic efficiency; Grilles; Hydraulics; Prototype tests; Roads; Safety; Storm sewers; Surface drainage
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency; Inlets; Water intakes
• Old TRIS Terms: Check structures; Highway drainage
• Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00151599
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Contrib-183 Final Rpt., OWRT-A-076-KAN(1)
• Contract Numbers: DI-14-34-0001-6017
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 13 1977 12:00AM