As capacity requirements change and grow, it is essential to have agility when modeling system expansions and their potential impacts on current collections assets. How can wastewater management systems be modeled to address all current and future hydraulic capacity needs? Innovyze’s InfoSewer and InfoSWMM can help users keep track of current collection system performance and model expansions. Users can build an accurate digital representation of collections assets to ensure system longevity and smart allocation of capital resources. The result? A Sewer Master Plan that is complete, can confidently model for future conditions and growth, and can lead to lower costs and better residential rate affordability.
How Mature is your Wastewater Management Plan?
At Innovyze, we believe that collections asset models can operate at the following stages:
Fast forward to today and there is still too much use of the Rational method and design storms. Perhaps they have their place in sizing a culvert based on conveyance or some onsite detention in the case of a design storm. However, there is simply too much misuse since these methods ignore the physical processes that are occurring. It is simply not appropriate to use such a method to design stormwater systems when storage is a significant component of the system or when there is sensitive downstream receiving waters to name just a couple cases. The rational method produces a peak flow and using that flow value in design ignores the natural attenuation that would occur to storage effects in the system and can even result in under design. 
