TOWN DIGS ALTERNATIVE STORMWATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

A new design for containing storm water runoff uses a tight pattern of corrugated high-density polyethylene pipe, but in a much smaller footprint than traditional designs would require. The design is called the Storm Compressor and has won an award from the American Society of Civil Engineers for best small project. Long lateral runs of N-12 pipe, which is a patented pipe design, sit next to each other with smaller diameter N-12 pipe nested in upper and lower haunches between the laterals. For this project, in Highland, Indiana, some 6,400 ft. of pipe was needed to retain a storm water volume of two acre feet. The compressed design kept installation costs low and reduced the amount of design and engineering work required. It was also a lot easier and faster to install. The system was installed under a sports field parking lot.

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/1606878
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Page range: pp 38, 40-41
• Corporate Authors:

  Public Works Journal Corporation

  200 South Broad Street
  Ridgewood, NJ  United States  07451
• Publication Date: 2003-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: 3 p.
• Serial:
  • Public Works
  • Volume: 134
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Hanley Wood
  • ISSN: 0033-3840
  • Serial URL: http://www.pwmag.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cost effectiveness; Ethylene resins; Floods; Runoff
• Subject Areas: Design; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Pipelines;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00941538
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: May 1 2003 12:00AM