PCSWMM & EPA SWMM5 Workshop

Overview

Stormwater runoff can contain significant amounts of harmful pollutants that contribute to adverse water quality impacts in receiving watercourses and waterbodies. EPA SWMM5 generates pollutant loads and concentrations from various sources including atmospheric deposition, surface buildup and washoff in stormwater systems, dry and wet weather inflows in wastewater systems, and discharge from groundwater systems. These constituents can then be routed through the drainage system and discharged into the outfall. Along the way, a portion of the pollutant load can be treated and deposited within the hydraulic network.

This specialized workshop is intended for experienced modelers interested in building skills in modeling water quality. The workshop will include the modeling fundamentals described above including building an input file and interpreting model results. Model applications to be explored include statistical and flow duration analyses of pollutant loads/concentrations, analytical methods/metrics to characterize long-term pollutant removal efficiency, and detention pond design considerations. Concepts will be reinforced through several case studies of design/analysis projects throughout North America.

PCSWMM will be used throughout the workshop to speed learning and program execution as well as enhance understanding of the underlying EPA SWMM5 processes. Through presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on exercises, attendees will understand the relevant water quality modeling processes, the capabilities and limitations of PCSWMM and EPA SWMM5, and develop the necessary skill and confidence to undertake water quality modeling projects.

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT

Register before April 3, 2025 to receive the early bird discount.

ACCREDITATION

Earn 0.75 CEUs for participating in the 1 day workshop.

LANGUAGE

English

Agenda

Workshop Fees

What We Provide

What to Bring

Bring a 15" or greater laptop computer with the following specifications and installed software:

PCSWMM Professional 2D (60-day workshop license)

We will supply a link to download software two weeks before the workshop. You must download, install, and activate the latest version of the software prior to the workshop. Please notify us if you have problems with installation or activation.
Administrative rights to install/remove software

Hands-on exercises and potentially other software (e.g. PCSWMM update) will be installed during the workshops on your laptop. Please ensure you have such rights or know the administrator's log-in procedures.
A usable USB port

Training files are supplied on USB key at the workshop. Please ensure your laptop's USB port (type A) has not been blocked for security purposes.
Microsoft Windows 11, 10, 8, or 7 operating system
Microsoft .NET 4.8 framework
Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable (x86)
Minimum physical memory: 4 GB
Minimum free disk space: 20 GB
Minimum screen resolution: 1600 x 900 pixels

We strongly recommend a 15" or larger screen, with a resolution between 1600x900 pixels and 1920x1200 pixels and text size set to 100%. This will enable the exercise instructions and the software to be displayed on the screen side-by-side.
Microsoft Excel (usually part of Microsoft Office)
Earbuds/headphones and audio jack (for additional help videos)
2 button mouse with wheel (strongly recommended)
Power supply (don’t forget it!)
We recommend against using a tablet, Microsoft Surface Pro or any underpowered, ultralight, or older laptop

Instructors

This workshop will be led by one or more of the following instructors:

Ellen Arrowsmith, B.Eng, EIT

Ellen has 3 years of experience in the water resources and climate risk sectors. Her experience modeling for stormwater analysis and design spans both rural and urban environments with a focus on low-impact development, flood risk assessment, and floodline mapping. Ellen specializes in automating water resources modeling tasks and analysis through scripting. Prior to joining CHI, Ellen worked as a consulting water resources engineer and as a product manager in the machine learning industry, with a focus on climate risk modeling.

KAT FINNEY, B.Sc.(Eng), M.Sc.(Eng), P.Eng.

With over 10 years of experience working as an engineer for CHI, Kat has extensive experience with watershed models for a variety of applications including real-time flood forecasting, LID investigations and integrated 1D-2D model analysis. She has conducted many training workshops across North America, South America, China and South Africa on PCSWMM and EPA SWMM.

MICHAEL GREGORY, M.Sc., P.Eng., PE

Mike has over 30 years of experience in water resources planning, analysis, design, program financing, and policy development. He has developed hydrologic and hydraulic models for over 100 stormwater analysis and design projects and specializes in continuous simulation for water balance calculations, nonpoint source water quality loading, sizing of sediment removal and rainwater harvesting facilities, and assessment of watercourse and wetland impacts. He has also assisted with the development of and technical support for stormwater modeling software. Mike has been a lead author and researcher for many peer-reviewed technical papers and publications, and has presented and lectured at conferences, seminars, training workshops and universities world-wide.

KIM IRVINE, B.Sc., M.Sc, Ph.D.

With over 25 years of experience in hydraulics and hydrology, Kim is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education and Cluster Leader, Environmental Process Modelling Centre, Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (NIE/NTU). Prior to becoming a Visiting Professor at NIE/NTU in 2012, Kim was a member of the Geography and Urban Planning Department at Buffalo State, State University of New York for 25 years, where he also held a position as a Hydrologic Scientist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1988 - 1991; 1994 - 1995); Associate Director of the Great Lakes Center (1991 - 1994); and Director of the Center for Southeast Asia Environment and Sustainable Development (2010 - 2014). Kim’s work has included water quality/quantity modelling research projects throughout North America as well as in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Japan. He has taught a PCSWMM class in the Environmental Engineering and Management program at Asian Institute of Technology for the past 12 years and regularly offers PCSWMM workshops for universities, NGOs, and government agencies in Southeast Asia.

DIEGO A. PAEZ, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Diego has over 7 years of experience in water supply and storm water modelling and management as well as over 3 years of experience in coastal and fluvial risk assessment and mitigation. His expertise includes using hydroinformatic tools to solve problems in municipal infrastructure modelling and design, transient analysis, fluvial and coastal flood risk profiling and mapping, and hydraulic modelling of pipeline systems. He has delivered undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia) and at Queen’s University (Canada) and has instructed workshops in North and South America. Diego has over 10 peer-reviewed scientific publications and over 15 international conference publications and presentations.

NANDANA PERERA, Ph.D., P.Eng.

With more than 15 years of consulting engineering experience, Nandana specializes in water quantity and quality modeling in stormwater/sanitary systems and watershed modeling with different focuses including dual drainage, low-impact development, flood analysis and 1D-2D integrated modeling. He has conducted a number of training workshops across North America on PCSWMM and EPA SWMM and is continuously working on training expansion into Sri Lanka and India.

NELLY PEYRON, M.Sc.

Nelly is an expert engineer with over 16 years of experience in the fields of hydrology and hydraulics. Having graduated from ENSEEIHT in France and the University of McGill in Canada, Nelly has led many PCSWMM and EPA SWMM workshops across Europe and has evolved through Egis Group. She has since created HydroPraxis – a company that specializes in hydraulics and hydrology consulting and training. Nelly has conducted numerous studies around the world in the domains of hydrology, rural and urban hydraulics, flood modeling, define flood-risk areas mapping, and flood forecasting and alert. Stormwater modeling specialists, Nelly and HydroPraxis have been partners of CHI since 2010.

GILLES RIVARD, M.Sc., P.Eng.

Gilles is President of Aquavidya inc., a firm specializing in training and software for urban hydrology, stormwater modeling and water resources planning. He has accumulated over 33 years of experience working in large consulting firms (Dessau (now Stantec), Genivar (now WSP), SNC-Lavalin). He has authored numerous papers and a book on stormwater management, as well as national guides on sewer networks. He wrote in 2011 the Quebec Provincial Guidelines on Stormwater management for the Ministry of Environment and is also since 2013 the Chairman of the Committee overseeing updates for the guide. Currently Chairman of the International Committee on Source Control (Joint Committee (IWA/IAHR) on Urban Drainage), President of the Quebec Branch of the Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA) and a member of the National Committee for Sewer Networks for the INFRAGuide Program (NRC). He has accumulated significant practical experience with PCSWMM on national and international modeling projects and has conducted PCSWMM workshops since 2000.

HAILIANG SHEN, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Hailiang is a licensed professional engineer in Ontario with over 10 years of experience and has expertise in modeling for various applications. Prior to joining CHI in 2017, Hailiang was a water resources modeling specialist with GHD. He has applied modeling techniques for various hydraulic structures design analysis and environmental assessment studies. His expertise includes 1D, 2D, and 3D hydrodynamic and water quality modeling for riverine/lake systems, hydraulic modeling for stormwater, and sanitary sewer systems. He has developed techniques to couple automated model runs with optimization algorithms to enable efficient sensitivity and calibration studies. Hailiang has working knowledge of the following modeling packages: PCSWMM, InfoWorks ICM, TUFLOW, RMA2/RMA4, CE-QUAL-W2, EFDC, Delft3D, TELEMAC-2D/3D, InfoWater, EPANET, Bentley Hammer, and has developed over 60 tools in 10 programming languages for model pre- and post-processing. Hailiang has published over 15 scientific papers and acts as peer-reviewer for three technical journals.