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News Release from: CIRIA | Subject: Designing for exceedance in urban drainage
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 February 2004
Managing The Impacts Of Flooding
CIRIA's 'Designing for exceedance in urban drainage - good practice (RP699) aims to produce design guidance on the development of urban drainage systems.
Conventional drainage systems can not economically or sustainably be built large enough to cope with the most extreme events When surface water runoff exceeds the design capacity of the drainage network, the potential sewer flooding presents serious economic, environmental and public health risks
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 14 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Designing for exceedance in urban drainage
CIRIA's new guidance Designing for exceedance in urban drainage - good practice provides advice for the design and management of urban sewerage and drainage systems.
Better use of streets and other areas within the urban setting can provide alternative conveyance routes and facilitate the attenuation of flows to rivers and run-off into built up areas, which can help reduce the likelihood of such a scenario.
CIRIA's new project Designing for exceedance in urban drainage - good practice (RP699) aims to produce design guidance on the development of urban drainage systems that can safely and sustainably accommodate periods of exceedance so to reduce the impacts of localised flooding.
It will provide advice on risk assessment procedures and planning and will include information on the effective design of underground systems as well as opportunities for overland flood routing. Request a free brochure from CIRIA ...
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