THT200 Sustainable Stormwater Management

The course provides an introduction to planning and design of urban stormwater systems aimed at students from several study programs (water and environmental engineering, landscape engineering, landscape architecture, hydrology, environmental science and more). The course includes the following topics:

• Three-step strategy for stormwater and decentralized stormwater management
• Introduction to relevant legislation as well as stormwater assessments in planning and building matters
• Terrain analyzes in SCALGO Live
• Introduction to urban hydrology
• Infiltration measurements in the field
• Runoff calculations using simple manual methods
• Simple calculations of open channel flow using Manning's formula
• Introduction to SWMM for simulation of new development areas
• Production, transport and treatment of pollutants in stormwater
• Design and construction of nature-based solutions for stormwater and reopening closed streams
• The interdisciplinary nature of stormwater and stormwater in a sustainability perspective

The candidate:

• Has an understanding of the challenges related to stormwater
• Has good knowledge of the principles of the three-step strategy for stormwater and nature-based stormwater management
• Has basic knowledge of urban hydrology, including precipitation, runoff, infiltration and groundwater
• Can carry out terrain analyzes to uncover stormwater hazards as well as use manual methods to estimate stormwater quantities, detention requirements and necessary area of ​​nature-based stormwater measures, and knows the conditions for using such methods.
• Can perform simple calculations in SWMM to simulate stormwater and the use of nature-based solutions in new development areas.
• Can perform simple calculations to design cross-sections for channels, floodways and reopened waterways and knows the conditions for using such methods.
• Can reproduce the main principles of the legislation and how stormwater is assessed in planning and building matters
• Can prepare simple plans for stormwater when developing new areas and discuss stormwater from a sustainability perspective
• Can carry out simple infiltration tests and calculate infiltration capacity
• Has knowledge of how the scope, location and type of solution (raingardens, green roofs, permeable pavements and open waterways) can be optimized in a catchment
• Has knowledge of how pollutants in stormwater vary in time and space, and know measures that contribute to the retention of pollution
• Has knowledge of the construction, operation and maintenance of nature-based solutions in a cold climate
• Has knowledge of a wide range of additional values ​​of stormwater management and can use simple tools to assess additional values