Design Procedure For Sanitary Sewers: Sewerage and Urban Drainage System
Design Procedure For Sanitary Sewers: Sewerage and Urban Drainage System
Design Procedure For Sanitary Sewers: Sewerage and Urban Drainage System
Step 1. Prepare a working plan layout and profile of the sewerage system establishing the
following design information:
a. Location of sewer pipes.
b. Direction of flow.
c. Location of manholes and other structures.
d. Number or label assigned to each structure.
e. Location of all existing utilities (water, sewer, gas, underground cables, etc.).
Step 2. Determine the following parameters for the sewer-shed areas to each inlet to the sanitary
sewer system:
a. Domestic population
b. Unit water consumption
c. Commercial/industrial output (heavy producers)
d. Peaking factors
e. Infiltration and inflow
Step 3. Using the information generated in Steps 1 and 2, complete the following information on
the design form for each run of pipe starting with the upstream most sanitary sewer run:
a. "From" and "To" stations
b. "Length" of run
c. " Incremental" sewer-shed area
The incremental sewer-shed area to the inlet at the upstream end of the sewer run under
consideration.
d. "Cumulative area"
The cumulative sewer-shed area to the inlet at the upstream end of the sewer run under
consideration.
e. Rate of peak wastewater flow per area
f. Incremental wastewater flow
g. Cumulative wastewater: Calculate cumulative wastewater flow rate.
h. Cumulative infiltration and inflow
Determine incremental and cumulative infiltration and inflow. Infiltration rate and inflow
can be specified as design criteria.
i. Total peak wet weather flow = peak domestic + peak non-domestic + I/I ….(Wet season)
j. Total peak dry weather flow = peak domestic + peak non-domestic + I …..(Dry season)
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Example:
A proposed sewage collection system with 13 collection regions and 18 manholes is to be designed
for the urban area (Figure 1). Street elevations at manhole locations are given in Table 1. It has
been determined that the population density is 100 persons per hectare and that the sewage
contribution per capita is 400 lpd. In addition, there is an infiltration component of 5700 liters
per hectare per day (l/ha/d), PF = 2.7 (1.5*1.8). (1.5 = MDF and 1.8 = PHF)
Local regulations require that laterals must have d ≥ 6 in (152.4mm), and the main (MH 7-6-5-4-
3-2-1) must have d ≥ 8 in (203.2mm). Collection areas, in hectares, and corresponding flows are as
shown in the figure. The flow in the main as it enters the development (at MH-7) is equivalent to
collection from 35 hectares.
Find pipe diameters that meet the regulations and also provide velocities of ≥ 0.61 m/s at design
flow. Data for system geometry and flows are given in Table 1.
MH-7
P1
MH-6
P2
P3
P4
P5
P6
P9
P15
P13
P10
P16
P17
MH-1
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1.1
a/A
0.9
0.8 r/R
0.7
0.6
q/Q for n = Nf v/V for n Nf
d/D
0.5
q/Q for n Nf
n/Nf
0.4
v/V for n = Nf
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
Hydraulic elements
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