Once you have determined the amount of storage you’re going to need, you can use this step to actually create a pond that meets that storage. The software allows you to choose a variety of methods for describing the physical aspects of your pond. You can set it up by describing:
- Elevation contours – Use this for any open surface pond.
- Trapezoidal shapes – Best for when you have known, uniform pond dimensions. Also useful for underground box or vault-shaped chambers.
- Manually entering in known incremental volumes.
- Underground Storage Chambers – Use this for modeling a variety of underground chambers consisting of multiple barrels, shapes with or without stone encasements, headers, etc.
Stacking Storage Types
You can also use a combination of these storage types whereby stacking one on top of the other. For example, you can setup underground chambers or a trapezoid shape, and then add contours on top of that to define additional storage above ground.
The first input is to select a pond. You may use up to 25 unique ponds per project, each numbered 1 through 25.
Pond No.
To use a pond, select one from the drop-down list.
Pond Name*
Please enter a name for this pond — This is Required!
Storage Type
Each pond can utilize any of four unique storage types.
The following articles describe in detail the procedures for using the different storage types.
- Elevation contours
- Trapezoidal shape
- Manually entering in known incremental volumes
- Underground Storage Chambers
Once you’ve entered data for the pond, click the [Outlet Struct] button to proceed to Step 3. Adding Outlets.