Preliminary Estimate of Detention Basin Efficiency at Watershed Scale

Giuseppe Del Giudice (), Rudy Gargano (), Giacomo Rasulo () and Daniele Siciliano ()

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2014, vol. 28, issue 4, 897-913

Abstract: Urban encroachment in natural floodplain areas and infrastructures interfering with watercourses have caused higher flood risks in lowland areas. In this context, detention basins have become a fundamental instrument for stormwater and environmental management at watershed scale. Numerical methods of flood routing are generally coupled with optimization algorithms to investigate the factors that affect the overall efficiency of detention basins in controlling the peak flows throughout a watershed. To overcome the procedure effort due to numerical integration, a simple innovative approach, based on the linear system theory applied to the solution of hydrologic flood routing, is proposed for a preliminary estimate of overall efficiency. First a numerical analysis is performed to ensure that the schematization of the detention basin as a linear system leads to technically acceptable approximation. Then, a simple analytical equation is provided that allows a preliminary estimate of detention basin efficiency in downstream river reaches. Sensitivity analysis of the above equation provides information about the factors that most contribute to the downstream flow reduction variability. Finally, the proposed methodology, adequately extended to a parallel system of stormwater detention basins within a watershed, can be easily integrated in optimization algorithms. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

Keywords: Analytical solution; Detention basins; Linear systems; Sensitivity analysis; Stormwater management; Peak flow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s11269-014-0518-1

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