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SWMM also contains a exible set of hydraulic modeling capabilities used to route runo and external inows
The EPA storm water management model (SWMM) is through the drainage system network of pipes, channels,
a dynamic rainfall-runo-routing simulation model used storage/treatment units and diversion structures. These
for single event or long-term (continuous) simulation of include the ability to:
runo quantity and quality from primarily urban areas.
The runo component of SWMM operates on a collec1. handle networks of unlimited size
tion of subcatchment areas that receive precipitation and
2. use a wide variety of standard closed and open congenerate runo and pollutant loads. The routing porduit shapes as well as natural channels
tion of SWMM transports this runo through a system
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2 HISTORY
3. model special elements such as storage/treatment
units, ow dividers, pumps, weirs, and orices
2 History
SWMM was rst developed between 19691971 and has
undergone four major upgrades since those years. The
major upgrades were: (1) Version 2 in 1973-1975, (2)
Version 3 in 1979-1981, (3) Version 4 in 1985-1988 and
(4) Version 5 in 2001-2004. A list of the major changes
and post 2004 changes are shown in Table 1. The current SWMM edition, Version 5/5.1.010, is a complete
re-write of the previous Fortran releases in the programming language C, and it can be run under Windows XP,
Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
and also with a recomplilation under Unix. The code for
SWMM5 is open source and public domain code that can
be downloaded from the EPA Web Site.
EPA SWMM 5 provides an integrated graphical envi2. sizing of detention facilities and their appurtenances ronment for editing watershed input data, running hydrologic, hydraulic, real time control and water quality simfor ood control and water quality protection
ulations, and viewing the results in a variety of graphical
3. ood plain mapping of natural channel systems, by formats. These include color-coded thematic drainage
modeling the river hydraulics and associated ood- area maps, time series graphs and tables, prole plots,
ing problems using prismatic channels
scatter plots and statistical frequency analyses.
4. designing control strategies for minimizing Com- This latest re-write of EPA SWMM was produced by
bined Sewer Overow (CSO) and Sanitary Sewer the Water Supply and Water Resources Division of the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys National Risk
Overow (SSO)
Management Research Laboratory with assistance from
5. evaluating the impact of inow and inltration on the consulting rm of CDM Inc under a Cooperative Resanitary sewer overows
search and Development Agreement (CRADA). SWMM
6. generating non-point source pollutant loadings for 5 is used as the computational engine for many modeling packages plus components of SWMM5 are in other
waste load allocation studies
modeling packages. The major modeling packages that
7. evaluating the eectiveness of BMPs and Sub- use all or some of the SWMM5 components are shown
catchment LIDs for reducing wet weather pollutant in the Vendor section. The update history of SWMM 5
loadings.Rainfall-runo modeling of urban and ru- from the original SWMM 5.0.001 to the current version
SWMM 5.1.007 can be found at the EPA Download in
ral watersheds
the le epaswmm5_updates.txt. SWMM 5 was approved
8. hydraulic and water quality analysis of storm, sani- FEMA Model Approval Page in May 2005 with this note
tary, and combined sewer systems
about the versions that are approved on the FEMA Ap9. master planning of sewer collection systems and ur- proval Page SWMM 5 Version 5.0.005 (May 2005) and
up for NFIP modeling. SWMM 5 is used as the comban watersheds
putational engine for many modeling packages (see the
10. system evaluations associated with USEPAs reg- SWMM 5 Platform Section of this article) and some
ulations including NDPES permits, CMOM, and components of SWMM5 are in other modeling packages
TMDL
(see the SWMM 5 Vendor Section of this article).
The Transport compartment contains a network of con7. interow between groundwater and pipes and
veyance elements (channels, pipes, pumps, and reguladitches
tors) and storage/treatment units that transport water to
outfalls or to treatment facilities. Inows to this compart8. nonlinear reservoir routing of watershed overland
ment can come from surface runo, groundwater interow.
ow, sanitary dry weather ow, or from user-dened hydrographs. The components of the Transport compartment are modeled with Node and Link objects.
Spatial variability in all of these processes is achieved by
Not all compartments need appear in a particular SWMM dividing a study area into a collection of smaller, homogemodel. For example, one could model just the transport neous watershed or subcatchment areas, each containing
compartment, using pre-dened hydrographs as inputs. If its own fraction of pervious and impervious sub-areas.
you use the kinematic wave routing then the nodes do not Overland ow can be routed between sub-areas, between
subcatchments, or between entry points of a drainage sysneed to contain an outfall.
tem.
SWMM also contains a exible set of hydraulic modeling capabilities used to route runo and external inows
4 Model parameters
through the drainage system network of pipes, channels,
storage/treatment units and diversion structures. These
The simulated model parameters for subcatchments are include the ability to:
surface roughness, depression storage, slope, ow path
length; for Inltration: Horton: max/min rates and de1. Simulate drainage networks of unlimited size
cay constant; Green-Ampt: hydraulic conductivity, initial
2. use a wide variety of standard closed and open conmoisture decit and suction head; Curve Number: NRCS
duit shapes as well as natural or irregular channels
(SCS) Curve number; All: time for saturated soil to
7. apply user-dened dynamic control rules to simulate soils tabulated curve number. During a rain event this
the operation of pumps, orice openings, and weir capacity is depleted as a function of cumulative rainfall
and remaining capacity. The input parameters for this
crest levels
method are the curve number and the time it takes a fully
Inltration is the process of rainfall penetrating the saturated soil to completely dry (used to compute the reground surface into the unsaturated soil zone of pervi- covery of inltration capacity during dry periods).
ous subcatchments areas. SWMM5 oers four choices SWMM also allows the inltration recovery rate to be adfor modeling inltration:
justed by a xed amount on a monthly basis to account for
seasonal variation in such factors as evaporation rates and
Classical inltration method
groundwater levels. This optional monthly soil recovery
This method is based on empirical observations show- pattern is specied as part of a projects evaporation data.
ing that inltration decreases exponentially from an initial
maximum rate to some minimum rate over the course of In addition to modeling the generation and transport of
a long rainfall event. Input parameters required by this runo ows, SWMM can also estimate the production of
method include the maximum and minimum inltration pollutant loads associated with this runo. The following
rates, a decay coecient that describes how fast the rate processes can be modeled for any number of user-dened
decreases over time, and the time it takes a fully saturated water quality constituents:
soil to completely dry (used to compute the recovery of
1. Dry-weather pollutant buildup over dierent land
inltration rate during dry periods).
uses
2. pollutant washo from specic land uses during
storm events
3. direct contribution of wet and dry rainfall deposition
4. reduction in dry-weather buildup due to street cleaning
5. reduction in washo load due to BMPs and LIDs
6. entry of dry weather sanitary ows and userspecied external inows at any point in the drainage
system
Figure 2. SWMM 5s QA/QC Master Example Network. This one
network includes examples 1 through 7 from the SWMM 3 and
SWMM 4 Manuals
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le formats currently in use are supported, as well as a pressurized ow. It can only be used with dendritic constandard user-dened format. The principal input prop- veyance networks, where each node has only a single outerties of rain gages include:
ow link (unless the node is a divider in which case two
outow links are required). This form of routing is in1. rainfall data type (e.g., intensity, volume, or cumu- sensitive to the time step employed and is really only appropriate for preliminary analysis using long-term conlative volume)
tinuous simulations. Kinematic wave routing solves the
2. recording time interval (e.g., hourly, 15-minute, continuity equation along with a simplied form of the
momentum equation in each conduit. The latter requires
etc.)
that the slope of the water surface equal the slope of the
3. source of rainfall data (input time series or external conduit.
le)
The maximum ow that can be conveyed through a
conduit is the full normal ow value. Any ow in excess
4. name of rainfall data source
of this entering the inlet node is either lost from the sysThe other principal input parameters for the subcatch- tem or can pond atop the inlet node and be re-introduced
into the conduit as capacity becomes available.
ments include:
1. assigned rain gage
2. outlet node or subcatchment and routing fraction
3. assigned land uses
4. tributary surface area
5. imperviousness and zero percent imperviousness
6. slope
7. characteristic width of overland ow
Dynamic wave routing solves the complete one8. Mannings n for overland ow on both pervious and dimensional Saint Venant ow equations and therefore
impervious areas
produces the most theoretically accurate results. These
equations consist of the continuity and momentum
9. depression storage in both pervious and impervious equations for conduits and a volume continuity equation
areas
at nodes.
10. percent of impervious area with no depression stor- With this form of routing it is possible to represent presage.
surized ow when a closed conduit becomes full, such
that ows can exceed the full normal ow value. Flood11. inltration parameters
ing occurs when the water depth at a node exceeds the
maximum available depth, and the excess ow is either
12. snowpack
lost from the system or can pond atop the node and reenter the drainage system.
13. groundwater parameters
14. LID parameters for each LID Control Used
Routing options
Steady-ow routing represents the simplest type of routing possible (actually no routing) by assuming that within
each computational time step ow is uniform and steady.
Thus it simply translates inow hydrographs at the upstream end of the conduit to the downstream end, with
no delay or change in shape. The normal ow equation is
used to relate ow rate to ow area (or depth).
This type of routing cannot account for channel storage,
backwater eects, entrance/exit losses, ow reversal or
Integrated hydrology/hydraulics
Each type of LID has limitations on the type of sub process allowed by SWMM 5. It has a good report feature
and you can have a LID summary report in the rpt le and
an external report le in which you can see the surface
depth, soil moisture, storage depth, surface inow, evaporation, surface inltration, soil percolation, storage inltration, surface outow and the LID continuity error. You
can have multiple LIDs per subcatchment and we have
had no issues having many complicated LID sub networks
and processes inside the Subcatchments of SWMM 5 or
any continuity issues not solvable by a smaller wet hydrology time step. The types of SWMM 5 LID compartments are: storage, underdrain, surface, pavement and
soil. a bio retention cell has storage, underdrain and surface compartments. an inltration trench lid has storage,
underdrain and surface compartments. A porous pavement LID has storage, underdrain and pavement compartments. A rain barrel has only storage and underdrain
compartments and a vegetative swale LID has a single
surface compartment. Each type of LID shares dierent underlying compartment objects in SWMM 5 which
are called layers.
One of the great advances in SWMM 5 was the integration of urban/suburban subsurface ow with the hydraulic
computations of the drainage network. This advance is
a tremendous improvement over the separate subsurface
hydrologic and hydraulic computations of the previous
versions of SWMM because it allows the modeler to conceptually model the same interactions that occur physically in the real open channel/shallow aquifer environment. The SWMM 5 numerical engine calculates the surface runo, subsurface hydrology and assigns the current
climate data at either the wet or dry hydrologic time step.
The hydraulic calculations for the links, nodes, control
rules and boundary conditions of the network are then
computed at either a xed or variable time step within
the hydrologic time step by using interpolation routines
and the simulated hydrologic starting and ending values.
The versions of SWMM 5 greater than SWMM 5.1.007
allow the modeler to simulate climate changes by globally
changing the rainfall, temperature and evaporation using This set of equations can be solved numerically at each
monthly adjustments.
runo time step to determine how an inow hydrograph
An example of this integration was the collection of the to the LID unit is converted into some combination
disparate SWMM 4 link types in the runo, transport and of runo hydrograph, sub-surface storage, sub-surface
extran blocks to one unied group of closed conduit and drainage, and inltration into the surrounding native soil.
open channel link types in SWMM 5 and a collection of In addition to Street Planters and Green Roofs, the bioretention model just described can be used to represent
node types (Figure 2).
Rain Gardens by eliminating the storage layer and also
Porous Pavement systems by replacing the soil layer with
a pavement layer.
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port vegetative growth. It receives inltration from the 18 inches. The capture ratio is the ratio of the rain garsurface layer and loses water through ET and by perco- dens area to the impervious area that drains onto it.
lation into the storage layer below it. The storage layer
consists of coarse crushed stone or gravel. It receives
percolation from the soil zone above it and loses water
by either inltration into the underlying natural soil or by
outow through a perforated pipe underdrain system.
New as of July 2013, the EPAs National Stormwater Calculator is a Windows desktop application that estimates
the annual amount of rainwater and frequency of runo
from a specic site anywhere in the United States. Estimates are based on local soil conditions, land cover, and
historic rainfall records. The calculator accesses several
national databases that provide soil, topography, rainfall,
and evaporation information for the chosen site. The user
supplies information about the sites land cover and selects the types of low impact development (LID) controls
they would like to use on site. The LID Control features
in SWMM 5.1.007 include the following among types of
Green infrastructure:
StreetPlanter: Bio-retention Cells are depressions that
contain vegetation grown in an engineered soil mixture
placed above a gravel drainage bed. They provide storage, inltration and evaporation of both direct rainfall and
runo captured from surrounding areas. Street planters
consist of concrete boxes lled with an engineered soil
that supports vegetative growth. Beneath the soil is a
gravel bed that provides additional storage. The walls of
a planter extend 3 to 12 inches above the soil bed to allow for ponding within the unit. The thickness of the soil
growing medium ranges from 6 to 24 inches while gravel
beds are 6 to 18 inches in depth. The planters capture
ratio is the ratio of its area to the impervious area whose
runo it captures.
GreenRoof: Green Roofs are another variation of a bioretention cell that have a soil layer laying atop a special drainage mat material that conveys excess percolated
rainfall o of the roof. Green Roofs (also known as Vegetated Roofs) are bio-retention systems placed on roof
surfaces that capture and temporarily store rainwater in a
soil growing medium. They consist of a layered system of
roong designed to support plant growth and retain water for plant uptake while preventing ponding on the roof
surface. The thickness used for the growing medium typically ranges from 3 to 6 inches.
SWMM5 COMPONENTS
Sand lters generally control runo water quality, providing very limited ow rate control. A typical sand lter
system consists of two or three chambers or basins. The
rst is the sedimentation chamber, which removes oatables and heavy sediments. The second is the ltration
chamber, which removes additional pollutants by ltering
the runo through a sand bed. The third is the discharge
chamber. Inltration trench, is a type of best management practice (BMP) that is used to manage stormwater
runo, prevent ooding and downstream erosion, and improve water quality in an adjacent river, stream, lake or
bay. It is a shallow excavated trench lled with gravel
or crushed stone that is designed to inltrate stormwater
though permeable soils into the groundwater aquifer.
Inltration trench (6438020585)
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angular closed, rectangular open, trapezoidal, triangular,
parabolic, power function, rectangular triangle, rectangle
round, modied baskethandle, horizontal ellipse, vertical ellipse, arch, eggshaped, horseshoe, gothic, catenary,
semielliptical, baskethandle, semicircular, irregular, custom and force main.
2. RDII
3. Water Quality
4. Groundwater
5. Snowmelt
The Storm Water Management Model Climate Adjustment Tool (SWMM-CAT) is a new addition to SWMM5
(December 2014). It is a simple to use software utility that allows future climate change projections to be
incorporated into the Storm Water Management Model
(SWMM). SWMM was recently updated to accept a set
of monthly adjustment factors for each of these time series that could represent the impact of future changes
in climatic conditions. SWMM-CAT provides a set of
location-specic adjustments that derived from global climate change models run as part of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3 (CMIP3) archive (Figure 4).
SWMM-CAT is a utility that adds location-specic cliThe SWMM 5 component structure allows the user to mate change adjustments to a Storm Water Management
choose which major hydrology and hydraulic components Model (SWMM) project le. Adjustments can be applied
are using during the simulation:
on a monthly basis to air temperature, evaporation rates,
and precipitation, as well as to the 24-hour design storm
1. Rainfall/runo with inltration options: horton, at dierent recurrence intervals. The source of these admodied horton, green ampt and curve number
justments are global climate change models run as part of
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See also
SWAT model
Stochastic empirical loading and dilution model
WAFLEX
DSSAM model
Hydrology
Inltration
Hydraulics
Surface runo
Drainage basin
Precipitation (meteorology)
Antecedent moisture
16 SWMM 5 Vendors
InfoSWMM, Suite, 2D and Sustain based on
SWMM 5.1.010
Evapotranspiration
EPANET
Rainfall
Hydrological transport model
Computer simulation
Water pollution
Water quality
Surface-water hydrology
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References
[1] Metcalf and Eddy, Water Resources Engineers, and University of Florida 1971. Storm Water Management
Model, US EPA, Washington, D.C. Vol. I - Final Report, 11024DOC 7/71. Vol. II - Verication and Testing,
11024DOC 8/71. Vol. III - Users Manual, 11024DOC
9/71. Vol. IV - Program Listing, 11024DOC 10/71.
[2] Huber, W. C., J. P. Heaney, M. A. Medina, W. A. Peltz,
H. Sheikh, and G. F. Smith. 1975. Storm Water Management Model Users Manual, Version II. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio.
[3] Huber, W. C., J. P. Heaney, S. J. Nix, R. E. Dickinson, and D. J. Polmann, 1981. Storm Water Management
Model. Users Manual Ver. III, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
[4] Huber, W. C. and R. E. Dickinson, 1988, Storm Water
Management Model. Users Manual Ver. IV, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
[5] Roesner, L.A., R.E. Dickinson and J.A. Aldrich (1988)
Storm Water Management Model Version 4: Users
Manual Addendum 1 EXTRAN; Cooperative Agreement CR-811607; U.S.EPA; Athens, Georgia.
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