Combined Effects of Parallel and Series Detention Basins for Flood Peak Reduction

Giuseppe Del Giudice (), Giacomo Rasulo (), Daniele Siciliano () and Roberta Padulano ()

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2014, vol. 28, issue 10, 3193-3205

Abstract: A simple analytical method is proposed that allows a preliminary evaluation of the overall efficiency of a detention basin system for flood risk reduction in a specific target section. Solutions are provided both for parallel and series systems, under some simplifying assumptions concerning the linearity of detention basin, river network and watershed responses. Further, for the series configuration a regressive model is proposed for the computation of the overall efficiency, because of the complexity of analytical solution. A case study is also presented, where the overall efficiency of a system of nine detention basins is computed by means of both the analytical and the regressive model. Results are discussed to assess the different influence of detention basins in parallel or in a series system. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

Keywords: Analytical solution; Detention basin; Parallel and series systems; Stormwater management; Peak flow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s11269-014-0668-1

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