Water Simulation Packages (WSP)

From Haestad Methods web site:

SewerGEMS is the first and only fully-dynamic, multi-platform (GIS, CAD, and Stand-Alone) sanitary and combined sewer modeling solution. With SewerGEMS, you will analyze all sanitary and combined sewer system elements in one package and have the option of performing the analyses with the SWMM algorithm or our own implicit solution of the full Saint Venant equations.

Simply put, SewerGEMS offers the most comprehensive solution available for optimizing Best Management Practice (BMP) designs and meeting sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) and combined sewer overflow (CSO) regulations.

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With SewerGEMS, you can:

• Develop system master plans
• Assess the impact of inflow and infiltration on SSOs
• Develop SSO and CSO remediation programs
• Perform system evaluations associated with US EPA CMOM and NPDES
• Optimize lift station and system storage capacities
• Determine developer connection fees
• Implement real-time control strategies
• Model relief sewers, overflow diversions, and inverted siphons
• Accurately simulate operations with variable-speed pumping and logical controls
• Simulate out-of-service or proposed sewers within the same model

For more information see SewerGEMS web page.

From Boss International web site:

StormNET Builder™ is the most advanced, powerful, and comprehensive stormwater and wastewater modeling package available for analyzing and designing urban drainage systems, stormwater sewers, and sanitary sewers. StormNET Builder is the only model that combines complex hydrology, hydraulics, and water quality in a completely graphical, easy-to-use interface. Both imperial and metric (SI) units are supported.

Network Analysis Components

• Watershed subbasins
• Inlets & catchbasins
• Detention Ponds
• Complex outlet structures
• Standpipes, weirs & orifices
• Stormwater & wastewater sewers
• Pumps & lift stations
• Manholes & junctions
• Rivers, streams & ditches
• Culverts & bridges

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StormNET Builder

From TechnoLogismiki web site:

The official version of the Hydraulic Programs suite for Windows 9x/NT/Me/2000/XP/2003, includes the following modules:

• Gravity Networks: Storm networks, Sewer networks, Water collection inlets
• Networks Under Pressure: Water networks, Pressure networks
• Profiles: Network profiles
• Network Quantities & Budgets: Quantities calculation, Budget and Construction costs
• Dams: Reservoir simulation, Hydropower works
• Pressure Flow: Pump calculation, Water hammer
• Free Surface Flow: Flood routing, Culverts
• Hydrology: Hydrographs synthesis, Flood flows, Water balance model
• River hydraulics: Uniform flow in streams and rivers, Non-uniform flow in streams and rivers, River profiles

The water networks module solves water networks consisted of junctions, pipes, valves, pumps, tanks and reservoirs. The program can be used to derive the steady state solution or an extended variable solution. It is compatible with EPANET and you can import - export files from and to EPANET. A partial list of its features follows:

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Hydraulic Programs suite v4.x

From Haestad Methods web site:

SewerCAD is the most advanced design, analysis, and planning tool, handling both pressurized force mains and gravity hydraulics with ease. SewerCAD leads the market hands-down with features such as steady-state analysis using various standard peaking factors, extended-period simulations of complete collection systems, and advanced automatic system design. SewerCAD’s easy-to-use interface allows you to spend time engineering improved sewer designs instead of wasting your time learning software!

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Cost effective solutions for complex modeling problems:

• Gravity Collection
• Pressure Piping (Forcemains)
• Automated Design
• Flexible Loading
• Infiltration and Inflow
• Scenario Management
• AutoCAD or Stand-Alone
• GIS, SCADA, and Database Links
• Construction Drawings
• Report-Ready Output

For more information see SewerCAD web page.

From Wallingford Software:

Overview
InfoWorks CS provides water utilities with a uniquely effective tool with which to undertake hydrological modeling of the complete urban water cycle. Essential for identifying and justifying cost effective infrastructure improvements, InfoWorks CS also provides a practical method for operational control, including real time control, of your wastewater network. Other applications include urban flooding and pollution prediction and the modeling of water quality and sediment transport throughout the network.

As well as supporting fast and accurate network modeling, there are specific tools to support the modeling of subcatchment take-off and infiltration. Offering exceptionally fast and robust simulations, InfoWorks CS facilitates the swift modeling of total networks or any sub-network. Users may now simulate models of up to 100,000 nodes with confidence that the results will be as accurate as those for far smaller models.

Example Applications

• Undertake drainage and sewerage master planning or studies
• Assess the impact of climate change on urban drainage systems
• Effectively implement sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS)
• Undertake hydraulic analysis of wastewater treatment works
• Identify solutions to intermittent discharges from sewerage systems (UID’s, CSO’s or SSO’s)
• Flooding and pollution prediction
• Modeling of sediment transport and water quality
• Secondary drainage and urban storm water system assessment and management
• Wastewater system assessment and management
• Infiltration and inflow assessments
• Urban drainage storm runoff control and retention design and assessment
• Urban storm water quality assessments and pollution control
• Combined / wastewater interceptor system design and analysis

For more information see Infoworks CS web page.

From HydroCAD web site:

HydroCAD-7 is a Computer Aided Design tool used by Civil Engineers for modeling stormwater runoff. HydroCAD provides a wide range of commonly used drainage calculations including:

• SCS, NRCS, SBUH runoff hydrographs
• Rational Method with automatic IDF curves
• Hydrograph routing through ponds & reaches
• Coupled ponds with automatic tailwater
• Automatic hydraulics and culvert calculations
• Automatic pond storage calculations, including embedded storage chambers
• Easy management of multiple rainfall events

HydroCAD is ideal for studies using the TR-20, TR-55, or SBUH methods. HydroCAD provides a wide range of standard H&H techniques in an easy-to-use graphical form, managed by the on-screen routing diagram we pioneered in 1986.

For more information see HydroCAD web site.

From HYDRA web site:

HYDRA® software is a full-featured program used by environmental and civil engineers to model and design urban drainage systems. It helps you estimate wastewater flows, and then calculates the resulting hydraulics within the collection system. It provides tools for managing all types of flows, including sanitary wastewater, stormwater inflow, rainfall-dependent infiltration, and groundwater infiltration. It helps you understand how the whole sewer system works under various conditions — today and in the future - and identify potential problem areas. HYDRA® software creates preliminary design for new sewers and suggests improvements for existing systems. It helps you optimize your pipe network, and find the most cost-effective way to solve system problems. The HYDRA® program has been used by thousands of engineers since its first commercial release in 1973.

For more information see HYDRA web page.

Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

4/27/2005 Cincinnati, OH - Civil and environmental engineers now have an improved software tool, the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM), to help plan, analyze, and design urban storm water drainage and sewer systems. This latest revision to SWMM includes several improvements not available in previous editions. These include a modern graphical user interface, a more intuitive modeling approach, and improved computational speed. SWMM continues to be open source and its numerical engine can easily be integrated into third-party interfaces.

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EPA Releases Improved Storm Water Management Model