
We investigate whether Pi (π) can actually be used to help compute details related to a river’s path. Is there something special about Pi that can make modeling rivers, bridges, culverts, spillways, levees, floodplain and floodway delineations, stream diversions, channel improvements, and split flows easier? The constant Pi has been associated with everything from crop…
Commentary

As summer winds down and students get back to hitting the books, you can step up your hydraulic modeling skills with four new Water Drop workflows. I’ve also been told these are great to listen to while enjoying a late summer afternoon thunderstorm. Another Civil 3D and InfoWorks ICM integration Ryan Brown takes a look…
Water Talks

Our most recent InfoWorks ICM version update (released just a month ago) added bottom opening orifices, sluice gate objects and a new level section view – among other additions. This time around, our development and QA testers have done an excellent job of making sure the latest InfoWorks ICM 2024.2 release improves your workflow efficiencies…
Product news

What are the factors that should lead us to choose a drainage design solution? Or as I am sometimes asked by customers: “Should I use InfoDrainage or InfoWorks ICM for drainage design?” This might not even be the right question to ask. Perhaps it is more about aligning the right tools with the right problems…
Commentary

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

We've been releasing new Water Drop videos every month since we began this project. Every time we add a new one, we include it on our Water Drop YouTube playlist. You can be updated every time we release a new video by subscribing to our YouTube channel and turning on notifications.
Water Talks

If the new cloud capabilities from our last InfoWorks ICM version update weren’t enough, our latest release InfoWorks ICM 2024.1 continues to improve your workflow efficiencies through new bottom orifice representation, a new level section view, and additional enhancements to culvert representation. New bottom orifice You can now better represent your real network conditions and…
Product news

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

Last year at this time, I was riding a bike along the canals of Glasgow, tagging along with an extremely talented film crew from BBC StoryWorks to help document the incredible progress Scottish Canals has made in revitalizing their waterways. The film that came out of this trip, Europe’s First Smart Canal, is beautiful. We’re…
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