Flooding in urban areas is an inevitable problem for many cities in Asia. In Bangladesh, Dhaka has serious problems related to urban flooding. The situation was highlighted in September 1996 when residences experienced ankle to kneedeep water on the streets. Daily activities in parts of the city were nearly paralyzed and heavy traffic jams occurred due to stagnant water on the streets. The stud...

Environmental flow assessment frameworks have begun to consider changes to flow regimes resulting from land-use change. Urban stormwater runoff, which degrades streams through altered volume, pattern and quality of flow, presents a problem that challenges dominant approaches to stormwater and water resource management, and to environmental flow assessment. We used evidence of ecological respons...

Urban flooding is a primary concern in all developed areas. Understanding what factors contribute to the magnitude and frequency of flooding is of primary importance when designing an engineering system to mitigate flooding. To understand the effect of impervious area versus the role of the storm drainage system in urban flooding, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gridded Surface Subsurface Hydr...

This paper presents a review of the current state of the art of real time control (RTC) of urban water systems with emphasis on wastewater and urban drainage issues. The paper provides concise definitions of terms frequently used in the literature. Control options for the transport and treatment systems are discussed. Recent developments of the integration of the complete urban wastewater and d...

large impervious surfaces and man-made waterways are the characteristic of urban area. increasing urbanization and rapid growth of cities in recent decades towards the upstream watershed, has been severely affected on rainfall-runoff processes in urban area. therefore, to computer models in order to illustrate these processes the proper design or assessment of urban drainage systems has special...

This paper presents a method for estimating runoff coefficients of urban drainage subcatchments based on a combination of high resolution weather radar data and flow measurements from a downstream runoff sensor. By utilising the spatial variability of the precipitation it is possible to estimate the runoff coefficients of the separate subcatchments. The method is demonstrated through a case stu...

Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) constitute an alternative to conventional drainage when managing stormwater in cities, reducing the impact of urbanization by decreasing the amount of runoff generated by a rainfall event. This paper shows the potential benefits of installing different types of SuDS in preventing flooding in comparison with the common urban drainage strategies consistin...