Urban Drainage

Symmons Madge Associates Ltd.
Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin, Exeter, Glasgow, Slough, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online/Live | On-site/In-house | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' The aim of this course is to provide an awareness and understanding of urban drainage systems, including their historical context and development - from flow generation, through conveyance to disposal - and become aware of various issues and future trends relating to urban drainage. This is NOT a drainage design course.

Course Outline:
Historical context and development - Bazelgette’s Embankment, Disease, etc.
Sources of urban drainage flows - surface runoff, foul sewage, trade effluent, and others?
Urban drainage systems - separate, combined, and "partially separate", SuDS
Some relevant legislation
Estimating storm runoff, domestic sewage, and trade effluent flows
Sizing sewers - hydraulic calculations and use of HR tables/charts; practical exercise.
Components of a sewerage system:
- sewer pipe materials and sizes, both old and new
- wide and narrow trench conditions, bedding
- manholes - changing standards
- combined sewer overflows (CSO)
- culverts and water courses
- pumping stations
- treatment works
- discharge outlets (outfalls)
Managing urban wastewater - issues and future trends
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course the delegate should:

Have a broad background understanding of the history and function of sewerage systems as a whole
Be able to carry out simple calculations to determine runoff and flows and be able to size sewers
Be aware of some of the key environmental issues relating to urban drainage and urban wastewater management

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Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

Phone:01446 775959

School Address/Venue(s):

Vale Forge
North Road
Cowbridge
Vale of Glamorgan
CF71 7DF
United Kingdom

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