Applications

With over 3000 licenses, PCSWMM has been the leading decision support system for US EPA SWMM since PCSWMM's original release in 1984 (and before that as FastSWMM in 1977).

Applied in tens of thousands of sewer and storm water studies throughout the world (over 50 countries), typical applications of PCSWMM include:

• design and sizing of drainage system components for flood control (more...)
• sizing of detention facilities and their appurtenances for flood control and water quality protection (more...)
• designing control strategies for minimizing combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) (more...)
• evaluating the impact of rainfall-dependant inflow and infiltration (RDII) on sanitary sewer overflows and water-in-basements (WIBs) (more...)
• dual-drainage (major/minor system) modeling and design, including dynamic interaction of dual systems (more...)
• evaluating global optimal and/or passive real-time control (GO RTC) operational strategies (more...)
• flood plain mapping of natural channel systems (more...)
• integrated catchment/watershed management modeling, including rural areas, river systems, urban sewer systems, treatment plants and receiving waters (more...)
• generating non-point source pollutant loadings for waste load allocation studies (more...)
• evaluating the effectiveness of best management practices (BMPs) and/or low impact developments (LIDs) for reducing wet weather pollutant loadings (more...)
• evaluating strategies for NPDES Permits, CMOM, and TMDL requirements.

For details on how PCSWMM streamlines model development, optimization and analysis in these and other applications, please see Software Solutions.