Storm Detention Design

Reporter : Ludwig Karl P. Cubertas

Storm Water Management
• Storm water management is a term that is used to describe all
endeavors to control runoff in areas affected by development.
• Ex. storm sewers, culverts, and swales
Detention Basin
• Is use to actually reduce the peak rate of flow
• Either an open cut in the ground or a series of underground pipes or
chambers.
Detention Basin should be able to function as
follows:
• Control the peak rate of runoff
• Control the volume of runoff
• Control the quality of the runoff
• Promote the recharge of stormwater
On-Site Detention
• On-site detention is
intended to protect land in
the immediate vicinity of
the site from the effects of
development.
Regional Detention
• Most detention basins are constructed on individual sites and
designed to control the runoff from that site alone. However,
calculations performed on a region wide basis show that individual
sites are not always the best place to control the quantity of runoff. In
assessing the optimum location for detention facilities, we must focus
on the impact point where we wish to attenuate the stormwater flow.
Detention as Water Quality Control
• A detention basin controls pollutants by trapping the silt on which the
pollutants ride.
• They infiltrate into the ground and lodge in the void spaces between
soil particles, or they are absorbed by the grass roots and then
harvested with the grass or, if they are volatile, they evaporate.
Detention as Recharge
for Ground Water

• helps to prevent the

depletion of groundwater
storage.
• infiltration basin - which
promotes recharge by
storing stormwater for an
extended period of time.
Non-structural strategies for mitigating the
effects of development on stormwater runoff
• Prevent pollutants from entering • Use vegetated open channel
the stormwater flow stormwater conveyance systems
• Minimize compaction of soil • Minimize impervious surfaces
Site Condition
• Site with some runoff by passing the detention basin
• Site with ridge forcing runoff to flow into two opposite direction
• Site with off site runoff contributing to the runoff leaving the site