Copula-Based Performance Assessment of Online and Offline Detention Ponds for Urban Stormwater Management
Publication: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 24, Issue 9
Abstract
Detention ponds are known as an efficient low-impact development (LID) strategy for reducing the negative impacts of urban floods. Their performance in flood peak attenuation is directly related to the size, location, and type of connections to the main drainage system, as well as the shape of their inlet/outlet structures and operational procedures. In this paper, a methodology is developed to design multiple detention ponds in urban drainage systems considering rainfall uncertainties. Harmony search (HS), a popular metaheuristic algorithm, is coupled with USEPA’s Storm Water Management Model version 5.1 (SWMM 5.1) and run under a significant number of synthetic rainfalls generated by copulas, a kind of joint probability distribution, to find the optimal place and size of online/offline detention ponds in the network. The approach is tested on the east main stormwater drainage network of Tehran, the capital city of Iran. Results reveal that offline construction of ponds has generally better performance than online construction. An optimal design and arrangement of ponds efficiently decreases flooding in the whole network up to 12.5% and outperforms the previous design proposed by consultant engineers for the rehabilitation of the studied network.
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Received: Aug 4, 2018
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Published online: Jun 22, 2019
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