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Pond design start to finish in under five minutes with PondMaker

If you're a civil engineer working in the field of site design, you have likely had the need to size detention ponds to attenuate postdevelopment peak flow down to predevelopment rates. Did you know that CivilStorm, SewerGEMS and PondPack include a powerful tool called PondMaker, which can help you quickly design a detention pond? Just how fast? In this short video, watch PondMaker design a pond and outlet in under five minutes.

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This video covers the following:
• Pond and Outlet design in PondMaker
• The Unit Hydrograph runoff method is used. PondMaker steps with Modified Rational Method are slightly different.
• Graphing pre vs post results

Applicable products/versions:
• CivilStorm and SewerGEMS 08.11.04.54 and later
• PondPack V8i and later

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For a copy of the example model file used in this, click the below link. Note that this is saved in the CONNECT Edition, version 10.00.00.40 and cannot be opened in earlier versions.

Quick pond design Model.zip

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Jesse Dringoli
Technical Support Manager
Bentley Systems, Inc.