User's Guide to SWMM, 12th Ed. (Sept 2008)

The cost of urban water management and the penalties of mismanagement are severe enough to require models based on an ever-increasing knowledge of the processes and impacts of urban water management. Such computer models are used to evaluate, analyze and manage problems where the quantity and quality of urban storm water runoff, sanitary flows and combined sewer overflows are to be estimated. We are lucky to continue to benefit from the USEPA's research on and models of the occurrence, movement, transformation, impact, and control of urban environmental water contaminants. One of the first of such models is the EPA Storm Water Management Model (SWMM).

This guide serves as an updated and more narrowly focused version of the two 1988 user's manuals for SWMM, originally written by Wayne Huber, Bob Dickinson, Larry Roesner and John Aldrich, and includes the USEPA SWMM5 user's Manual. Text has been totally rearranged and simplified and enhanced for users as opposed to programmers. Detailed instructions on the use of the model are given as before, and material deemed outdated, or irrelevant to a PC environment, or relevant only to FORTRAN programmers, and SWMM4, has been deleted. New exercises and examples have been added, and terminology has been harmonized.

This 852-page manual has been reduced in size from the original set of EPA manuals to a single, handy, hard-cover,  6" x 9" format. Most importantly, it has been fully indexed for quick reference. Additional glossary, conversion and other tables have been added.

The User's Guide to SWMM (catalog # R233) is available for US$149.95 (CDN$149.95) plus shipping and handling. Multiple volume sets are available at discounted prices. We offer same-day shipping.