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The
Florida Department of Transportation requires that a critical storm analysis be
performed for drainage connection permits. This entails evaluating and
comparing 48 separate storm events. Although ICPR allows you to run a
"batch" of storms, the FDOT analysis can be a tedious endeavor to set
up because the rainfall parameters and data files must be established for 48
storms and routing control data must also be established for each of them.
An
ICPR project file, with all 48 hydrology and routing control forms already
established, can be downloaded and used as a template for other projects as
described below.
1.
Create the following two folders:
C:\ICPR-FDOT
C:\ICPR-FDOT\PROJECT1
2.
Download the following ICPR input file and save it into the first folder in step
1:
ICPR-FDOT.icp
This
file contains both hydrology and routing control data for all 48 FDOT storm
events and no other data. It can be used as a template for other projects.
3.
Open ICPR and then use the "file>open" command to open the "ICPR-FDOT.icp"
project. 4.
Using the "file>save as" command, save the project into the second
folder (i.e., C:\ICPR-FDOT\PROJECT1) using any name you would like. This
makes an exact copy of the original file. 5.
Go to "simulations>hydrology control" and adjust the rainfall
amounts for your local area. Note: If most of your projects are in the
same area and you don't need to change the rainfall with each project, you could
change it one time, before entering your basin, node and link data, and save the
project back into the original file. This would become your new template. 6.
Enter all of your basin, node and link data (and save it of course). Keep
everything in group BASE. 7.
Save your data and then execute your simulations. 8.
The reports we find most useful for a critical storm analysis are:
for hydrology results: Basin Max, report #2, basin max comparison report
for routing: Node Min/Max, reports 2a & 2b, node max comparison report 9.
After you have completed your analysis and before you work with another project,
move all of the contents out of C:\ICPR-FDOT\Project1 into another safe folder,
otherwise the results will be overwritten by the next project you work on.
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