If you’ve spent any time working in water distribution modeling, you’ve probably come across EPANET. It is one of the world’s most widely used hydraulic modeling software applications for water distribution systems. EPANET is a software tool used to simulate the hydraulic and water quality behavior of pressurized water distribution systems. Engineers use it to…
Hydraulic modeling
Download the latest official USDA TR-55 Manual and learn how the NRCS Curve Number method, Time of Concentration, hydrographs, and detention basin calculations are used in modern stormwater design. Technical Release 55 (TR-55), Urban Hydrology for Small Watersheds, is one of the most widely used stormwater design references in the United States. Developed by the…
Drainage design
Optimatics, a Suez company that grew out of a successful Australian consultancy, wants to get their infrastructure planning software into the hands of as many water managers around the world as possible. We know how they feel. We want engineers to look to InfoWorks ICM and InfoWorks WS Pro whenever they need the power of…
Product news
Build practical water modeling skills with free educational access to InfoWorks ICM, InfoDrainage, InfoWorks WS Pro, and InfoWater Pro. If you’re studying to become a water professional—or teaching the people who will become one—we want you to have the opportunity to work with the tools used to solve real water infrastructure challenges. That’s why Autodesk…
Product news
InfoWorks ICM leverages some of the most advanced hydraulic and hydrologic simulation functions on the market, but did you know it can also leverage the EPA’s SWMM5 engine? In this post, we’ll walk through answers to various questions we get from our customers about InfoWorks ICM’s SWMM capabilities, as well as highlight new features valuable…
Storm, sewer, flood
Türkiye is a beautiful and very topographically diverse country, with mountainous coasts bordered by major bodies of water. Increasingly severe weather events have led to catastrophic flooding in the country, but they aim to stem the tide with a national flood warning system that utilizes InfoWorks ICM and ICM Live to help sound the alarm…
Customer stories
Over eight days in August 2017, category 4 Hurricane Harvey dropped more than 50 inches of rainfall over Houston, Texas, making it the most significant rainfall event in US history since the USGS began keeping records in the 1880s. It resulted in 103 deaths. Just 200 miles away, water professionals and politicians in San Antonio…
Customer stories
ISG is a nationally recognized, 100% employee-owned, multi-disciplinary architecture, engineering, environmental, and planning firm with a diverse portfolio of water-related work throughout the Midwest US that extends from watershed planning to urban redesign and everything in between. This year, they celebrate their 50th year in business. After being diligent users of XPSWMM for many years,…
Commentary
The San Francisco Public Utility Commission (SFPUC) owns and operates close to 1,000 miles of sewer mains, 3 treatment facilities, 200 million gallons of storage, 26 pump stations and 36 combined sewer discharge outfalls. Interestingly, it is the only coastal city in California with a combined sewer system that collects and treats both wastewater and…
Storm, sewer, flood
The Central Contra Costa Sanitary District – called “Central San” by the locals – is one of the larger water systems in the San Francisco Bay region. Located about 30 miles east of San Francisco, the district is responsible for the collection and treatment of wastewater for half a million residents and 3,000+ businesses, cleaning…
Customer stories