SWMM Modeling of a Rural Watershed in the Lower Coastal Plains of the United States

Kyle Moynihan,Jose Vasconcelos

doi:10.14796/jwmm.c372

Abstract

The Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) has proven highly effective in modeling urban and suburban watersheds since its conception in 1969. While heavily imple…

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Development of water resources has been an important engineering challenge throughout the United States
This paper has presented the preliminary results of an ongoing investigation of the hydrological characteristics of a rural and intermittent watershed located in the Lower Coastal Plain region of the United States
This work has focused on the use of Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) modelling as a means to describe the various interactions between the hydrological compartments that were observed in the field investigation

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Introduction

Development of water resources has been an important engineering challenge throughout the United States. A better understanding of the water budget of different natural environments has propelled the development of a number of hydraulic and hydrologic water resource management projects in the past decades (Sun et al 2002; Davis et al 2007; Harder et al 2007; Sun et al 2010; La Torre Torres et al 2011). One hypothesizes that in these areas the fluctuations of the groundwater table create conditions in which, at times, there is no direct connection between a flowing intermittent stream and the water table. Identification of such losing streams and respective hydrological characterization would be important in the development of water resources, such as the placement and sizing of surface reservoirs

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