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Getting Started

Option

Simulation Options editor is used to set various options that control how a SWMM simulation is made. The editor consists of the following tabbed pages

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Map & Model Setup

Map control

The Open Layer Map is used to draw model features and interact graphically with StormNET. Below is information about map control , drawing objects , a

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Map & Model Setup

Overlay Image

The Image Overlay screen is used for user to upload image files(.jpg,.jpeg,.png) and overlay them on the map. There are two different methods to overl

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Map & Model Setup

Drawbox

The DEM Configuration Editor is used to define the model area and display a digital elevation model (DEM) and other information from the MAGNET4WATER

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Map & Model Setup

Map Viz

The Map Visualization window is used to change map display options. After running a model simulation various results can be displayed including flows,

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Subcatchments

Subcatchment

Subcatchments are hydrologic units of land whose topography and drainage system elements direct surface runoff to a single discharge point. The user i

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Subcatchments

Subcatchment Landuse

The Land Use Assignment editor is used to edit the Land Uses property of a Subcatchment. Its purpose is to assign land uses to the subcatchment for wa

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Subcatchments

Subcatchment Infiltration

The Infiltration Editor is used to specify the method and its parameters that model the rate at which rainfall infiltrates into the upper soil zone of

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Subcatchments

Subcatchment Groundwater

The Groundwater Flow tab is used to edit the Groundwater property of a Subcatchment. It is used to link a subcatchment to both a parent aquifer and to

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Subcatchments

Subcatchment Lidcontrol

The LID Controls for Subcatchment page is used to identify a group of previously defined LID controls that will be placed within the subcatchment, the

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Subcatchments

Subcatchment Buildup

The Initial Buildup editor is used to edit the Initial Buildup property of a Subcatchment. It specifies the amount of pollutant buildup existing over

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Subcatchments

Subcatchment Visualization

Stormnet Models can be viewed in 3D CAD. The Visualization tab is used to input parameters for Visualizing the Subcatchment in 3D CAD Table below is a

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Subcatchments

Landuse

Land Uses are categories of development activities or land surface characteristics assigned to subcatchments. Examples of land use activities are resi

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Nodes & Storage

Junction

Junctions are drainage system nodes where links join together. Physically they can represent the confluence of natural surface channels, manholes in a

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Nodes & Storage

Outfall

Outfalls are terminal nodes of the drainage system used to define final downstream boundaries under Dynamic Wave flow routing. For other types of flow

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Nodes & Storage

Divider

Flow Dividers are drainage system nodes that divert inflows to a specific conduit in a prescribed manner. A flow divider can have no more than two con

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Nodes & Storage

Storage

Storage Units are drainage system nodes that provide storage volume. Physically they could represent storage facilities as small as a catchbasin or as

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Nodes & Storage

Storage Unit Regular

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Nodes & Storage

Storage Unit Irregular

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Nodes & Storage

Storage Curve

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Links & Hydraulic Structures

Conduit

Conduits are pipes or channels that move water from one node to another in the conveyance system. Their cross-sectional shapes can be selected from a

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Links & Hydraulic Structures

Pump

Pumps are links used to lift water to higher elevations. A pump curve describes the relation between a pump's flow rate and conditions at its inlet an

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Links & Hydraulic Structures

Orifice

Orifices are used to model outlet and diversion structures in drainage systems which are typically openings in the wall of a manhole, storage facility

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Links & Hydraulic Structures

Weir

Weirs , like orifices, are used to model outlet and diversion structures in a drainage system. Weirs are typically located in a manhole, along the sid

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Links & Hydraulic Structures

Outlet

Outlets are flow control devices that are typically used to control outflows from storage units. They are used to model special head-discharge relatio

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Links & Hydraulic Structures

Culvert

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Links & Hydraulic Structures

Transect

Field Description Name The name assigned to the transect. Description An optional comment or description of the transect. Station/Elevation Data Grid

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Links & Hydraulic Structures

Auto Xs

The Auto Generate Transects window is used to add irregular transects (cross sections) along a channel between existing drawn transects. To Auto Gener

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Controls

Controlrule

Control Rules determine how pumps and regulators in the conveyance system will be adjusted over the course of a simulation. The use of control rules i

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Climate & Snow

Raingage

Rain Gages supply precipitation data for one or more subcatchment areas in a study region. The rainfall data can be either a user-defined time series

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Climate & Snow

Climatology

The Climatology Editor is used to enter values for various climate-related variables required by certain SWMM simulations. The Editor is divided into

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Climate & Snow

Snowpack

Snow Pack objects contain parameters that characterize the buildup, removal, and melting of snow over three types of sub-areas within a subcatchment:

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Climate & Snow

Snowpack Parameter

Field Description Minimum Melt Coefficient The degree-day snow melt coefficient that occurs on December 21. Units are either in/hr-deg F or mm/hr-deg

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Climate & Snow

Snowpack Removal

Field Description Depth at which snow removal begins (in or mm) Depth which must be reached before any snow removal begins. Fraction transferred out o

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LID & Aquifer

Lidcontrol

LID Controls are low impact development practices designed to capture surface runoff and provide some combination of detention, infiltration, and evap

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LID & Aquifer

Lidusage

The LID Usage Editor is used to specify how a particular LID control will be deployed within the subcatchment. It contains the following data entry fi

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LID & Aquifer

Aquifer

Aquifers are sub-surface groundwater zones used to model the vertical movement of water infiltrating from the subcatchments that lie above them. They

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Inflows & Loadings

Inflow Direct

The direct page on the Inflows Editor page is used to specify the time history of direct external flow and water quality entering a node of the draina

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Inflows & Loadings

Inflow Dryweather

The Dry Weather page of the Inflows Editor dialog is used to specify a continuous source of dry weather flow entering a node of the drainage system. T

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Inflows & Loadings

Inflow Rdii

The RDII Inflow page of the Inflows Editor dialog form is used to specify RDII (Rainfall Dependent Infiltration/Inflow) for the node in question. The

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Inflows & Loadings

Hydrograph

The Unit Hydrograph is used to specify the shape parameters and rain gage for a group of triangular unit hydrographs. These hydrographs are used to co

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Data & Utilities

Curve

Curve objects are used to describe a functional relationship between two quantities. The following types of curves are used in SWMM: Storage - describ

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Data & Utilities

Timeseries

Time Series objects are used to describe how certain object properties vary with time. Time series can be used to describe: temperature data evaporati

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Data & Utilities

Timepattern

Time Patterns allow external dry weather flow (DWF) to vary in a periodic fashion. They consist of a set of adjustment factors applied as multipliers

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Data & Utilities

Pollutant

SWMM can simulate the generation, inflow and transport of any number of user-defined pollutants. The input parameters for the pollutant are listed in

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Results & Visualization

Model Viz

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