TRIECA 2020 WEBINAR SERIES
Effect of Soil Type and Static versus Dynamic Design Approaches on LID Facility Size and Cost
PRESENTERS
Matthew Wilson, City of Kitchener
Josef Kardos, Jacobs
ABSTRACT
Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) draft guidelines for low impact development (LID) help to inform the sizing of LID facilities that aim to control the runoff generated by the regionally-specific 90th percentile rainfall event.
Municipalities that seek to implement LID are often faced with site constraints in which a portion of the drainage area cannot feasibly be managed by LID. In these cases, “overcontrol” of LID is often practiced to compensate for the unmanaged area. However, consistent methods for calculating the degree of LID overcontrol needed to meet stormwater water quality or retention criteria have not been practiced to date.
This project examined a set of right-of-way LID projects in the City of Kitchener. By calculating the nonlinear relationship between LID sizing depth and average annual retention volume, we demonstrated that the overcontrol needed to achieve criteria is much greater than a simple 1:1 offset in LID treatment depth.
We next examined the effect of soil type by comparing results from a static design-based spreadsheet calculator, and the LID Treatment Train Tool with a dynamic design approach. We found that the degree of overcontrol needed is strongly influenced by soil type, and the selection of either a static or dynamic design approach.
This has important cost implications for right-sizing LID infrastructure based on soil type, and potential adjustments for I/P ratios for different LID and soil types.
Learning Objectives
1. Explore the nonlinear relationship between LID sizing depth and average annual retention volume, and understand the effect of soil type on LID sizing depth and average annual retention volumes.
2. Understand the degree of overcontrol required when LID is only feasible to manage a portion of catchment area runoff, and learn how water quality treatment measures in series (i.e. LID and OGS) can be sized jointly to achieve stormwater criteria.
3. Learn about examples of recently developed City of Kitchener LID standard drawings used to provide examples of the LID integration into the municipality’s complete streets initiative (road cross sections including LID features).
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Matthew Wilson
Matthew Wilson, M.Eng., P.Eng., is Water Resources Engineer for City of Kitchener.
Matthew’s career has focused on conventional stormwater management practices and green infrastructure approaches that attempt to mitigate urban-environmental issues.
Matthew’s work experience includes hydrologic and hydraulic modelling, LID design and construction implementation, and City-wide stormwater monitoring programs.
Josef Kardos
Josef Kardos is Water Resources Specialist at Jacobs.
Previously, he was Water Resources Modeling Program Manager for the Philadelphia Water Department. He directed hydrologic and hydraulic models of the stormwater and wastewater collection systems, and managed the modelling, monitoring, and data analysis of Philadelphia’s innovative green infrastructure (GI) program.
Since joining Jacobs, Josef has continued to work on GI projects in the U.S. and Ontario.