Water supply systems and Stormwater management infrastructures 2017

This year I decide to renovate the teaching of my class of "Hydraulic Constructions".  Usually, under this name, one thinks to dams, levees, or other infrastructures. In fact, what I will  teach is how to design a water supply system for a city or for a city district, and how to design the infrastructures for storm water management.

This the foreseen schedule of the course. L Means a laboratory class, where the students are asked to calculate, think or project something. Actually it will be that I will do stuff for them, introducing some tools and asking them to repeat and complete the task on their dataset. Tentatively, it will be a "learning by doing approach" which I used also the last years but to a minor extent. 

I have 60 hours in total over thirteen weeks. So the schedule could be the following one

Storm waters

1. T - Introductory Class. 
• New goals for Urban hydrology
• The sewage systems devices
• Local control on the hydrological cycle
• The law of public works
• The past and the future
• Further readings
2. T - Statistical properties of ground precipitations. Mechanisms  of formation of precipitation. Ground based statistics. Extreme precipitations.  
• See the points 6-11 in the Precipitations post
• Further readings (Point 1-5 and 17 in the Precipitations' post)
3. L - Explorative data analysis. Investigating data with Python (or R).  
4. T - Extreme precipitations. Around the concept of return period. Extreme distributions. 
• See points 12-15 in the Precipitations post
• Further readings (Point 1-5 and 17 in the Precipitations' post)
5. L - Estimation of Extreme distributions with Python (or R)
6. T - Element for the design of storm water management infrastructures.  
• The storm water drainage network (SWDN)
• Urban cases
• Pipes (slides from Roberto Magini)
• The estimation of the flood wave (the IUH case) and the Hydraulic design of the SWDN
7. L - Short introduction to QGIS for representing urban infrastructures. 
• Introduction to QGIS by Elisa Stella and Daniele Dalla Torre. For other information about tools installation, see the bottom of the page.
• Using QGIS and GISWater to feed SWMM
• Material/Data of the lab
• Video classes on QGIS/GISWATER (discovered by Pasini & Rocari)
• Create subcatchments
• Homogenize the subcatchment layer and insert it in the database
• Geometric information subcatchments
• Average Slope
• Impervious
• Simp, Routeto
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJIGH-ndcJ4

1. T - Element for the design of storm water management infrastructures. - II 
• An example with a linear reservoir system 
• The so called "metodo italiano" (optional)
• Further readings
2. L - Simple estimations of the maximum discharge via Python
3. T - Pumping stormwaters.
4. L - Designing some part of a sewer network with SWMM and Python. 
• The Python Notebook is here
• The Data used in the notebook here
• Using QGIS and GISWater for creating the inputs for SWMM (YouTube  by Elisa Stella: Part I, II and III)

Clean water supply - Aqueducts

As a  general, simple and descriptive reference, the first six chapters of Maurizio Leopardi's book can be useful :

• Utilizzo Idropotabile
• Il trasporto in pressione
• Dimensionamento idraulico delle condotte
• Acquedotto con sollevamento meccanico
• Serbatoi
• Reti di distribuzione

Here the class lectures:

1. T - Aqueducts in 2020
• Equations for aqueducts networks
• Mass and energy Conservation
2. L - Introduction to EPANET (and related GIS)(YouTube2017)
3. T - Aqueducts' distribution networks: the water demand and some design indications)
• Equations for aqueducts network
4. T - External aqueducts
5. T - Introduction to intakes  for water supply
6. T - Water uptakes
7. L - Reservoirs
8. L - Design and verification of distribution networks with EPANET - 
9. T - Houses' infrastructures
10. T - Urban Drainage Systems
11. L - Design and verification of distribution networks with EPANET - I I (YouTube on Water Demand)

Tools

During the class I will introduce sever tools for calculations. 

• Python - Python is a modern programming languages. It will be used for data treatment, estimation of the idf curves of precipitation, some hydraulic calculation and data visualisation. I will use Python mostly as a scripting language to bind and using existing tools. 
• SWMM - Is an acronym for Storm Water Management System. Essentially it is a model for the estimation of runoff adjusted to Urban environment. I do not endorse very much its hydrology. However, it is the most used tools by colleagues who cares about storm water management, and I adopt it. It is not a tool for designing storm water networks, and therefore, some more work should be done with Python to fill the gaps.
• EPANET Is the tool developed by EPA to estimate water distribution networks. 
• LaTeX: il sistema per la scrittura e la composizione di testi matematici ed ingegneristici. Il testo di Lorenzo Pantieri e Tommaso Gordini è un piccolo gioiello. 

Installation Instructions (for Windows) by Daniele Della Torre:

SWMM: http://growworkinghard.altervista.org/epa-swmm-how-to-install-step-by-step/

GISWATER: http://growworkinghard.altervista.org/giswater-11-install-windows/

QGIS: http://growworkinghard.altervista.org/qgis-2-18-how-to-install-step-by-step-on-windows/

and this for the Java RE:

http://growworkinghard.altervista.org/install-jre-step-by-step-on-windows-march-2017/

Domande della prova intermedia 2017.